Three new books on Tonga in a row
Three new books - Veimau, Faiva ta`anga and `Aati `o e Lea Tonga Heliaki – on aspects of Tongan society, history and culture - where a leading Tongan anthropologist, historian, poet and art critic Dr `Okusitino Māhina (Anthropology) was actively involved in their production - were launched at [...]

Understanding the Church’s Annual Misinale Festival from a Biblical Perspective
Rev Dr Ma’afu Palu
November 2007

It is towards the end of another year, the time during which most local churches in Tonga and abroad belonging to the Methodist tradition (i.e. Free Wesleyan; Free Church of Tonga, Church of Tonga, Constitutional Church of Tonga, Tokaikolo Fellowship) are preoccupied [...]

A new Pacific book to celebrate AUPISA

‘ĀTEA, MOANA AND VANUA: Voices from the Brown Edge was co-edited by Dr ‘Okusitino Māhina (Anthropology), with three postgraduate students Nuhisifa Seve-Williams (PhD, Education), Alovale Faaiuaso (MA, Pacific Studies) and Davina Hosking (MA, Geography) and foreword by Rangi Moeka’a, formerly an arts students in the 1960s [...]