[1][2][3][4] He was born in Oniimwandi, Oshana Region, Northern Namibia, on 9 August 1943, and grew up in Lüderitz and later Windhoek.
With Tor Sellström, he published the book ’Kassinga: A Story Untold’ in 1995, an account of the 1978 massacre by the South African military of hundreds of Namibians in a refugee camp in Angola.
He was a Special Advisor to the Namibian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology,[1] and died on 25 April 2019 in Tauben Glen, Windhoek as a result of complications from a stroke the previous year.
I wish to feel again how life feelsIn the poem Namibia (2008) ya Nangolo wrote: 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 dunesYa Nangolo's publications include:[6] This article about a Namibian writer or poet is a stub.