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Sione Tapani Mangisi wants Tongans to write down their memories in-language
Tapani Mangisi grew up in Tonga in the 1950s, playing marbles beneath giant mango trees and observing huge colonies of flying foxes. Today, lamenting…
2 years, 10 months ago
Cindy of Samoa is your excuse to misbehave
Cindy Filo’s childhood home was next to both a Seventh Day Adventist church and a nightclub. Both had a big impact on her life. But a cordless microp…
2 years, 10 months ago
William Kadi saved an island from mining, but that’s just his day job
A big mining company. A small island. And a lawyer just two years into practice. William Kadi from the Solomon Islands’ western province took on the …
2 years, 11 months ago
Imelda Miller knows what kind of story a pair of shoes can tell
A painting of a ship. A cane knife. A pair of shoes. As the curator of Queensland Museum’s First Nations Cultures, South Sea Islander Imelda Miller c…
2 years, 11 months ago
Sia Figiel unearths the untold Samoan history of Treasure Island’s famous author Robert Louis Stevenson
While Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was living in Samoa in the late 1880s and early 1890s, he became known as “Tusitala”, or teller of tales…
2 years, 11 months ago
Seti Afoa conquered his fear of the deep
Seti Afoa grew up by the sea on the island of Upolu in Samoa. But like many Pacific Islanders, he feared the deep. As an adult he decided to conquer …
2 years, 11 months ago
Waso Mathews gives seasonal workers in Australia a home away from home
Waso Mathews grew up in Rabaul in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain province. Her place was one where she never went hungry, where she was safe and…
3 years ago
Professor Katerina Teaiwa believes if we heal the land of Banaba, we heal the people
Katerina Teaiwa’s family was forced from their home of Banaba in Kiribati when almost the whole population was displaced and relocated to Rabi Island…
3 years ago
Exiled in the Netherlands, Raki Ap dreams of going home
Raki Ap grew up in the Netherlands never really understanding why his family was there or why he didn’t have a father. When he was 16-years-old, his …
3 years ago
Peter Sipeli helped form Fiji’s first gay rights lobby
The school yard was not a friendly place for Peter Sipeli, who loved to daydream and listen to Whitney Houston. He was a writer before he ever put pe…
3 years ago