Mvula ya Nangolo explained

Mvula ya Nangolo
Birth Date:	9 August 1943
Birth Place:	Oniimwandi, South West Africa
Death Place:	Tauben Glen, Windhoek, Namibia
Nationality:	Namibian
Occupation:	Journalist, poet

Mvula ya Nangolo (Peter Mvula Ya Nangolo, 9 August 1943 – 25 April 2019) was a Namibian journalist and poet.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

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.^[1]

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:^[5]

• Book: Ya Nangolo, Mvula . From exile . 862796307 . 1976. 17 pages. Poetry.
• Book: Ya Nangolo, Mvula . Thoughts from exile . Longman Namibia . Windhoek . 9780636015210 . 27054678 . 1991. 37 pages. Poetry.
• Ya Nangolo, Mvula. From Exile, 1992. Poem.
• Book: Mvula . Ya Nangolo . Tor . Sellström . Kassinga : a story untold . Namibia Book Development Council . Windhoek . 475610224 . 1995. 81 pages. Account.
• Book: Ya Nangolo, Mvula . Watering the beloved desert : new and selected poems . Brown Turtle Press . Makanda . 9780982166000 . 1289890799 . 2008. 60 pages. Poetry.

in anthologies

• Book: Ulli . Beier . Gerald . Moore . The Penguin book of modern African poetry . Penguin Books . London . 9780140424720 . 466152546 . 2007 . 4th . Penguin classics. 448 pages. First edition 1998.
• Book: Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile . Frank Chipasula . When my brothers come home : poems from central and southern Africa . Wesleyan University Press. Distributed by Harper & Row . Middletown, Connecticut, USA / Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA . 9780819550927 . 10072530 . 1985. 278 pages.
• Book: Okoro, Dike . We have crossed many rivers : new poetry from Africa . Malthouse Press . Lagos, Nigeria . 9789788244325 . 809615834 . 2012. 346 pages.
• Revue noire . 4 . Revue noire . Paris . 9781157412045 . 1043091201. 64 pages. Combined March-April-May 1992 issue.

Secondary literature

• Book: Opali, Fred . Poetic form and the construction of meaning in the poetry of Mvula ya Nangolo . Tales, tellers and tale-making : critical studies on literary stylistics and narrative styles in contemporary African literature . J. K. S. . Makokha . Remmy . Barasa . Adeyemi . Daramola . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller . Saarbrücken . 9783639311372 . 1302249691 . 2010.

Notes and References

1. News: https://web.archive.org/web/20221002091211/https://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?page=archive-read&id=187925 . 2022-10-02 . Veteran journalist Mvula ya Nangolo dies . Kahiurika . Ndanki . . 25 April 2019 . 7 November 2024.
2. Web site: Tribute to Peter Mvula Ya Nangolo … On behalf of 50 former Swapo secondary education students in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1975–1980 . May 6, 2019 . New Era Live . Staff reporter . 7 November 2024.
3. Web site: Mvula Ya Nangolo-Namibia | Revue Noire . www.revuenoire.com . Revue Noire, Contemporary Expressions from Africa and Worldwide, BICFL s.a.s., Paris, France . 7 November 2024.
4. Web site: The love streak in Mvula ya Nangolo's poems. The Namibian.
5. Web site: Showing 1-9 of 9 Results . search.worldcat.org . OCLC, Inc. . November 7, 2024.