The Chiefs’ Country: Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands
Michael Kwa’ioloa, Ben BurtIn 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 the governance of Solomon Islands.
سال:
2013
ناشر کتب:
University of Queensland Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
294
ISBN 10:
1921902248
ISBN 13:
9781921902246
سیریز:
Pacific Studies series
فائل:
PDF, 4.04 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013