John Muafangejo

John Ndevasia Muafangejo (5 October 1943 – 27 November 1987) was a Namibian artist who became internationally known as a maker of woodcut prints.

His mother converted to Christianity and moved in 1956 to the Anglican mission station in Epinga which lay south of the border in Namibia.

An American missionary named C. S. Mallory supported his artistic talent and helped him with the application to the Arts and Craft Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rorke's Drift, Natal in South Africa.

In 1968 he suffered a nervous breakdown and was in treatment in the Madadeni Hospital in Newcastle due to a severe depression.

[citation needed] His linocuts are powerful depictions of people and events, expressed in black and white imagery, condensing the colourful landscapes and animal images of Namibia's artists of European origin.

Orde, Forcible Love, A play about John Muafangejo presented at the National Theatre of Namibia for Independence Celebrations March, 1990.