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Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela, the Samoan song maker, poet and storyteller- Vela who was so red and ugly at birth they called him the cooked Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of Song Maker Mulialofa. WINNER 2010 ASIA-PACIFIC COMMONWEALTH WRITERS AWARD
This is the first book published about Solomon Islands women by Solomon Islands women. It collects the life stories of 14 women who broke through the barriers - as Permanent Secretaries, Officers of Parliament, the women ever elected to Parliament, and a former Public Service Commissioner.
In describing his own life and struggles, his siblings and his parents Devendran Kumaran also vividly portrays the trying conditions not only of every Indian family in Fiji but of humanity generally.
Written from archival research and observation, TUIMACILAI is a biographical study of Ratu Sir Kamasese Mara, leading figure in the South Pacific whose background, character, role in the traditional as well as national life, political difficulties, achievements, and failures are obviously worthy of being put on record for their own sake quite apart from the fact that assessment of evidence has educative value. Written by Deryck Scarr.
A collection of essays on a variety of topics, including colonialism, writing, education, reading, ethics, corruption, identity, fundamentalism, leadership, religion, nation. And on Gandhi and Nehru as writers; and on V S Naipaul, Patrick White and Wole Soyinka.
This is an account of a former era for people of Indian origin in Fiji. It describes the legacy that has been left for a new generation to absorb and now move beyond.The author addresses many of Fiji's recurring historical themes including the barbarism visited on the Indo-Fijians during the girmit period, the establishment of an Indo-Fijian culture and its contribution to Fiji's commercial success.
Maude's work has taken him over the past fifty years to all the main groups in Polynesia and most of those in Micronesia and Melanesia, and on official assignments to Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and the Line, Phoenix, Pitcairn and Cook Islands.
The year is 1990 - a nuclear bomb has been spirited Moruroa, France's nuclear atoll, and smuggled to Fiji Islands. the bomb's being transshipped from Fiji to a mystery consignee........Islamic extremists are at work. French special forces and Fijian military attempt to track down the bomb and its shadowy high-jackers.
The discrimination, violence and intimidation Indo-Fijians suffered in the wake of Fiji's coups are well known; that they have suffered in these way for so long rather less so.
In Democracy & Custom in Samoa: An uneasy alliance So'o examines the co-existence of the two systems of governance. He concludes that, while has been significant progress toward democracy- with positive and negative impacts for indigenous institutions, values and practices- it has been restricted by the persistence of customary ideals.
