Ndeutala Angolo

In 2014, she was honored with the Excellent Order of the Eagle, Second Class.

She then served as permanent secretary in the Ministry of Safety and Security before returning to the Office of the President in 2012.

After returning to Namibia from exile, Angolo served as permanent secretary in the Office of the President under the independent country's first president, Sam Nujoma, until he left office in 2005.

Angolo's third book, The Contract Labour System and its Effects on Family and Social Life in Namibia: A Historical Perspective, was published in 1992. It argues that the gender-based system of labor migration in Namibia, which was a factor in Angolo's own childhood, significantly contributes to social disruption.

In 1989, Angolo became one of the first exiles to return to Namibia as it gained independence from South Africa.

Her 1986 book Marrying Apartheid is considered the first English-language novel by a black Namibian woman.

In 1986, she wrote Marrying Apartheid, a novel published while she was in Australia. The book deals with a newlywed couple in the northwestern region of Namibia and criticizes both patriarchal control and colonial rule. It depicts the intertwined nature of political and household violence in the apartheid state. Marrying Apartheid fictionalizes real situations Angolo observed or experienced in her youth in Namibia's northwest.

She then traveled to study at Stockholm University and Växjö University in Sweden through a scholarship from the Lutheran World Federation, arranged by SWAPO. After moving from Sweden to Australia in 1985, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Centre for Comparative and International Studies in Education at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1988.

Additionally, Angolo published the scholarly essay Bantu Education: A Tool For Development? in 1984.

Her first book, Women of Namibia: The Changing Role of Namibian Women from Traditional Precolonial Times to the Present, was published in 1983. Angolo had found that there was very little research available on the situation of Namibian women and set out to complete her own study.

In 1974, Angolo left the country and joined the exiled South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), a Namibian independence movement, in Zambia. Her aim was to "join the liberation struggle," and she was given military training.

Angolo organized in exile with the independence movement SWAPO in the 1970s and 1980s. After returning to Namibia during its transition to independence, she served as permanent secretary in the Office of the Presidency and in the Ministry of Safety and Security for nearly three decades.

Ndeutala Angolo (born 1952), also known as Ndeutala Selma Hishongwa and Ndeutala Angolo-Amutenya, is a Namibian writer and political activist.

Ndeutala Angolo was born in 1952 in Okalili, in Namibia's northwestern Omusati Region. She was the second of seven children. Her native language is the Oshindonga dialect of Oshivambo.