# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andreas-shipanga
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:52:09.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andreas-shipanga"
name: "Andreas Shipanga"
slug: "andreas-shipanga"
description: "Andreas Zack Shipanga was a Namibian politician known for the \"Shipanga Affair\", a movement within SWAPO that sought to elect a new leadership and whose followers were in response detained without trial. Imprisoned for two years following this fall-out, Shipanga was arrested and held in detention in Zambia then Tanzania until 1978."
tagline: "Namibian politician (1931-2012)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-10-26"
deathDate: "2012-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.26
  momentum:             7.489510489510487
  historical:           5.672066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Shipanga"
    title: "Andreas Shipanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "اندرو شيبانجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Shipanga"
    title: "Andreas Shipanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0"
    title: "Андреас Шипанга"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Shipanga"
    title: "Andreas Shipanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Шипанга, Андреас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q541456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump