Melusi Tshabalala

Melusi Tshabalala is a seasoned advertising creative with a career spanning 20 years.

He is co-founder and managing partner at Studio 214, an advertising and design agency. His agency’s ethos is to ‘create work that touches Africans, inspiring harmony, prosperity and the celebration of this electric continent, her people and their phenomenal cultures’. Melusi strives to live by this ethos in his everyday life too.

His greatest joy comes from the laughter of his three wonderful children, for whom he hopes to help build a better African future.

Author's books

Melusi’s Everyday Zulu

Six days a week, Melusi Tshabalala, creative professional and entrepreneur, posts a new isiZulu word on his Melusi’s Everyday Zulu Facebook page and tells a story to help bring the word to life. Melusi’s Everyday Zulu holds up a mirror that shows South African society in all its flaws and its sheer humanity. Most importantly, he shows the power of words and that there’s umzulu in all of us!