| 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 (9 August 1943 – 25 April 2019) was a Namibian journalist and poet.[1] [2] [3] [4]
He was born in Oniimwandi 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 the first editor of Namibia Today and worked as a Special Advisor to the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. He died on 25 April 2019 in Tauben Glen, Windhoek as a result of complications from a stroke.[1]
In the poem Namibia he said :
"My heart opens up when I am in the mountains
Where I can be alone with my thoughts
I’ve returned here to be in the deserts
I love to hear the sound made by sand dunes".[5]