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Tigilau Ness and Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writers

Tigilau Ness is a first-generation Aotearoa New Zealand-born Niuean activist and founder of the Polynesian Panthers. As a reggae icon, he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Pacific Music Awards in 2009. Kolokesa is a co-founder of Lagi-Maama Academy and Consultancy, an educational and cultural organisation that involves mediating at the intersecton of Indigenous communities and institutional settings.

Everything By: Tigilau Ness and Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai

Pacific Arts Legacy Project11.12.20

United in our Diversity

A talanoa between Tigilau Ness and Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai on their personal reflections of Creative New Zealand’s Pacific Arts Committee of 2011 to 2014.

By Tigilau Ness and Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai
Read Time: 16 mins

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