Abunuas Anangangola
Biography

Abunuas Anangangola (also recorded as Abunawasi Anangangola) was born around 1933 in Mozambique. He learned carving from his father, at first producing ceremonial masks and simple pieces sold to Portuguese traders, before migrating to Tanganyika — present-day Tanzania — in 1960.

In Dar es Salaam he became a key member of the group of Makonde blackwood sculptors working in the yard of the entrepreneur Mohamed Peera, developing his own refined treatment of the shetani spirit-figure genre. He mentored a number of younger carvers, among them Andriki Alimali and Chanuo Maundu, and was, alongside Samaki Likankoa, one of the two carvers under whom Simon Dastani apprenticed.

His sculpture was exhibited widely both in and outside Tanzania, and he was, at the time some of the movement's earliest documentation was compiled, described as the oldest Makonde sculptor still working in the country.

source: Makonde Modern research report (eaman.org)

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