Mvula ya Nangolo (Peter Mvula Ya Nangolo, 9 August 1943 – 25 April 2019) was a Namibian journalist and poet.
Biography He was born in Oniimwandi, Oshana Region, Northern Namibia, on 9 August 1943, and grew up in Lüderitz and later Windhoek. He joined the independence movement SWAPO at the age of 18 and later moved to Germany on a journalism scholarship. He was one of the first black journalists of Namibia, and the first editor of the SWAPO-owned periodical Namibia Today. With Tor Sellström, he published the book ’Kassinga: A Story Untold’ in 1995, an account of the 1978 massacre by the South African military of hundreds of Namibians in a refugee camp in Angola. He was a Special Advisor to the Namibian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, and died on 25 April 2019 in Tauben Glen, Windhoek as a result of complications from a stroke the previous year.
Quotes The beginning lines of the poem From Exile (version 1992) are
In the poem Namibia (2008) ya Nangolo wrote:
Publications Ya Nangolo's publications include: 17 pages. Poetry. 37 pages. Poetry. Ya Nangolo, Mvula. From Exile, 1992. Poem. 81 pages. Account. 60 pages. Poetry.
in anthologies 448 pages. First edition 1998. 278 pages. 346 pages. 64 pages. Combined March–April-May 1992 issue.
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