Rebaone was proudly born and bred in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her formative years were spent in both Johannesburg and New Delhi, India. In Delhi, she formed bonds with people from all over the world and engaged in authentic experiences of story-telling and story-sharing. Throughout this time, poetry and the spoken word helped her realize how abnormal her thoughts of race were. As she continued to share, Reba soon discovered that her national, and continental, context would continue to unveil freedoms and injustices implicit in her desire to discuss the Black, sub-Saharan African, female self in contemporary society. Reba returned to Johannesburg and worked for the Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Fund and was one of eight fundraisers for the Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Hospital, only the fifth dedicated pediatric hospital in Africa due to open in December 2016. Born in 1988 and a part of the \u2018born free\u2019 post-apartheid generation, Reba\u2019s pieces are informed by the power of song, word and untold stories, marking the daily neurosis of \u2018being an African\u2019 abroad. A South African woman trying to make sense of her identity in a Eurocentric world. She believes that Africa’s greatest currency is its culture and assumes the responsibility of sharing it within foreign contexts. Encouraging her Berlin audiences to uncover the relationship(s) between socioeconomic equality, colonialism, xenophobia and the relevance of redefining \u2018Africanness\u2019, Reba\u2019s work bears the responsibility of telling \u2018new stories\u2019 and giving an African voice to the, as of yet, undefined voiceless masses. Mayibuye iAfrika!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rebaone was proudly born and bred in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her formative years were spent in both Johannesburg and New Delhi, India. In Delhi, she formed bonds with people from all over the world and engaged in authentic experiences of story-telling and story-sharing. Throughout this time, poetry and the spoken word helped her realize how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3194,"template":"","categories":[7],"class_list":["post-3193","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author"],"yoast_head":"\n