Philile Nkabinde is a published poet, music journalist, copywriter, and movement improviser. At her artistic core, she is a story-offerer who uses her intuitive curiosity to write, perform and offer stories that seek to affirm the indigenous human experience and reveal the nuances of being, breathing and believing in relation to remembering our innermost selves. She has performed at JIAS (Johannesburg Institute of Advanced/ African Studies), Constitution Hill in partnership with Among the Lilies: Ode to the Woman and Reel to Reality Film Festival in partnership with The Forge, to name a few. She also leads presence-calling circles and poetic meditations for her audiences, inviting them to surrender to the sonic journey being offered. Philile has had four of her poems published in the anthology Woven with Brown Thread, edited by Upile Chisala, and supported by The Centre for the Less Good Idea. She was selected to be a mentor for the 2023 SpringNG Writing Fellowship in partnership with Botsotso, a collaboration between Nigerian, Ghanaian and South African writers. As a music journalist currently working at Music In Africa, she is interested in the Pan-African music sector as it relates to the upliftment of women in music.
