Chiefs' Country Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

Name: Chiefs' Country Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands
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ISBN: 9781921902246

ISBN-10: 1921902248

ISBN-13: 9781921902246

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Kwa'ioloa, Ben Burt

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In this autobiographical account of life in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa’ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland on Malaita island. Continuing the long tradition of Kwara’ae community leaders participating in political activism, he discusses how the roles of these leaders were severely tested by the violent conflict between Malaitans and the indigenous Guadalcanal people at the turn of the century. Kwa’ioloa provides a local perspective on the causes and course of this unhappy episode in his country’s history and describes a need for a way of life founded upon ancestral values, giving chiefs a role in…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication date: 5/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English