Veteran poet, journalist dies
Namibia's celebrated poet and one of the country’s first black journalists, Mvula Ya Nangolo, has passed on. Ya Nangolo died early this morning at his house. He was 75. Mbeuta Ua-Ndjarakana, the executive director in the ministry of information, confirmed Ya Nangolo’s passing. Ya Nangolo was also a former special advisor to the minister of information. He was born at Oniimwandi on 9 August 1943 grew up in Lüderitz and Windhoek before leaving for exile in 1963. His first collection of poems, 'From Exile', was published in Zambia. 'Thoughts from Exile' was published just after independence.
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