# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malangatana-ngwenya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:56.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malangatana-ngwenya"
name: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
slug: "malangatana-ngwenya"
description: "Malangatana Valente Ngwenya was a Mozambican painter and poet. He frequently exhibited work under his first name alone, as Malangatana. He died on 5 January 2011 in Matosinhos, Portugal."
tagline: "Mozambican artist (1936-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Malangatana_Ngwenya.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1936-06-06"
deathDate: "2011-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.38
  momentum:             0.2484472049689441
  historical:           14.30824666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629147/"
    handle:    "nm0629147"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malangatana_Ngwenya"
    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Malangatana Ngwenya"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3474748"
    title: "Malangatana Valente Ngwenya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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