As an oral people, Pacific islanders often put their thoughts into words and later into song or chants.
These cries from the soul speak to the issues which trouble indigenous people – colonisation, suppression of indigenous rights, poverty, alienation in their own land.
In a liquid continent where extractive industry is rife and foreigners take the profits and leave the local landowners with a pittance, songs are sometimes the only avenue of protest.
Industrial action would lead to suppression at the hands of the State-sponsored police and military, controlled by politicians in the . . .
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