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John Ndevasia Muafangejo (5 October – 27 November ) was a Namibian artist who became internationally known as a maker of woodcut prints....
John Ndevasia Muafangejo (1943 - 1987)
Muafangejo was born at Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola in 1943.
He grew up in a traditional homestead herding cattle during the day and playing communal and literary games, with their strong moral and philosophical content, with the elders in the evening.
John Muafangejo ; Ein sex anaa gender, male ; Country wey e be citizen, Namibia ; Name wey dem give am, John ; Ein date of birth, 5 October ; Place dem born am.
This period of his life clearly influenced not only his development as an artist but also the content of his work forming the basis of his strongly autobiographical subject matter. Following the death of his father in 1955 his mother inherited nothing and so moved to a mission station where John joined her in 1957.
He converted to Christianity at the age of fourteen and in 1964 attended St Mary's Anglican mission school at Odibo in Namibia where his artistic skills were recognized and arrangements were made for him to train at Rorke's Drift.
He trained at Rorke's Drift from 1968 to 1969 before returning to teach and establish an art school at St Mary's. In 1971 he held his first of several solo exhi