Lebo
Mashile - Guest Speaker, MC, Poet, Author, Life
Skills Facilitator and Television Presenter -
Johannesburg
Mashile won the 2006 Noma Award for her poetry
collection, In a Ribbon of Rhythm. She is a visual
verbalist, and an icon of modern South African
poetry. In addition to these given titles Lebo
Mashile has been forging her own creative identity
since she emerged on the Johannesburg arts scene
almost seven years past. Lebo Mashile's tireless
work ethic has earned her creative titles including
published author, executive producer, actress, poet,
independent record producer, corporate and
independent event MC, life skills
facilitator/speaker and television series presenter.
Lebo Mashile
"If her pretty face and big Afro don't grab people's
attention then her words will. Lebo Mashile is
clearly talented, but what stands out about her is
her amazing energy."
In an interview with City Pulse magazine Lebo
reflects, "Walking into Feela Sistah, none of us
knew that two years later we'd be one of the answers
on The Weakest Link. We had no idea that we'd
become an item of popular culture. We didn't realize
that there was such a void, that people were waiting
for our voices."
In March 2003, Mashile co-founded the Feela
Sistah Spoken Word Collective alongside Napo
Masheane, Ntsiki Mazwai and Myesha Jenkins. This
foursome was the first poetry collective of its kind
in
South Africa.
Lebo Mashile
In 2005, Mashile published her first collection of
poetry, In A Ribbon Of Rhythm. In the same
year Mashile self-produced and released a 19-track
album, Lebo Mashile Live!, which combines the
musical mix of poetry with hip-hop, house and R&B.
The album was released on her independent label,
Mashile Productions, and was recorded live with
a nine-piece band in addition to studio
collaborations with artists such as MXO, Tumi
Molekane (of Tumi and The Volume) and Zubz.
Lebo Mashile
In 2004, Mashile debuted as a film actress in the
Academy Award Nominated Hotel Rwanda,
directed by Terry George, which illuminated the
tragic 1994 genocide of the Tutsi and Hutu moderates
in Rwanda.
Also in 2004, Mashile became executive producer and
presenter of the SABC1 documentary series
L'atitude, now in it's third season.
L'atitude puts the host on a nationwide road
trip in exploration and discovery of the position
occupied by South Africans, the spaces they inhabit
and the roles they play in the landscape of a
developing South Africa.
Lebo Mashile
Recent Highlights - 2007:
Began writing a column entitled "In Her Shoes"
for True Love magazine
Named one of the Top Women in South Africa by
the Mail & Guardian for the second year in a
row.
Named one of the Top 100 young South Africans to
have lunch with by the Mail & Guardian
for the second year in a row.
Collected the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa
at the University of Botswana in Gaborone,
Botswana.
Awarded City Press Woman of Prestige Award
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Lebo
Mashile - Guest Speaker, MC, Poet, Author, Life
Skills Facilitator and Television Presenter -
Johannesburg
