John Muafangejo

John Ndevasia Muafangejo ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli October dabaanu dali, yuuni 1943 – ka o kani silimiingoli November bɛɣu pishi naanu dali, yuuni 1987) o daa nyɛla  Namibian yiliyiini so duniya zaa ni daa baŋ so yɛli di ni daa niŋ ka o wuhi baŋsim n niŋ  woodcut prints la. Ŋuni n kpa linocuts, woodcuts n ti pahi  etchings.

Biography
Muafangejo nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni  Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola yuuni 1943. O nyɛla ŋun yina zuliya shɛbi ban nyɛ Kwanyama (Kuanjama), ŋun daa ʒini Ovamboland. 

Exhibitions (selection)
1969 Contemporary African Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, LondonA list of Muafangejo's exhibitions until 1988 can be found in Collin Cole: John N. Muafangejo 1943–1987 a perspective on his lino-cuts. 1993 MA Thesis, pp. 77–81 Rhodes University Zaire 
1972 São Paulo Biennial
1975 Arts Centre, Durban (solo exhibition)
1976 Black South Africa: Graphic Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1980 John Muafangejo Graphic Art (solo exhibition), Bullankulma Art Gallery, Helsinki
1987 Black Art – John Muafangejo and Peter Clarke, IFA Gallery, Bonn
1988 National Arts Festival, Grahamstown (retrospective)

Literature
Bruce Arnott: John Muafangejo: linocuts, woodcuts and etchings. Linocuts, woodcuts and etchings. Struik, Cape Town/Johannesburg. 1977.
Theo Sundermeier: Hope for Namibia: linocuts by John Ndevasia Muafangejo. Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1991.
Orde Levinson: I was lonelyness. The complete graphic works of John Muafangejo: a catalog raisonné 1968–1987. Struik Winchester, Cape Town 1992.
Orde Levinson: The African Dream. Visions of love and sorrow: the Art of John Muafangejo. Thames and Hudson, London 1992.
Brenda Danilowitz: John Muafangejo picturing history. In: African arts. vol. 26, no. 2 (1993) pp 46–57, 92–94.
John N. Muafangejo (1943–1987): linocuts from the collection of the National Art Gallery of Namibia: Forum for Cultural Exchange, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart, 26 January to 27 March 1994. catalog, text: Annaleen one. Stuttgart, 1994.
Orde, Forcible Love, A play about John Muafangejo presented at the National Theatre of Namibia for Independence Celebrations March, 1990.

Orde Levinson: Visions of Love and Sorrow, the Art of John Muafangejo, trilingual publication in English, with Oshikawanyama and German Translations of updated edition of 1992 Thames and Hudson publication. Includes the script of "Forcible Love" and "A Poets Grave". Kuiseb Publishers, [Windhoek], 2020

Kundivihira

External links
John Muafangejo Art Centre (JMAC)
John Muafangejo Trust, c/o DACS, for the estate of the artist.

Category:Namibian artists
Category:1943 births
Category:1987 deaths
Category:Namibian printmakers
Category:Ovambo people
Category:20th-century printmakers