Lebohang Masango earned her Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Witwatersrand. She is a social anthropologist and a multi-award-winning children’s author and poet. In 2023, the South African Reserve Bank commissioned Lebohang to write Deep Ecology, a poem to commemorate the new bank notes and coins after commissioning her to write A Purposeful Journey for their centenary in 2021. She is published in Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation edited by Wamuwi Mbao and To Breathe Into Another Voice, a Jazz poetry anthology edited by Myesha Jenkins. Her poetry, Ten Thousand Stories features in MultiChoice/ DStv’s Most Loved Storyteller campaign and has won a gold Mama Africa Award and gold Best Image Promo Award at the Promax Africa Awards (2020).