It’s DO or DIE: Fiame fights for survival

Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa

Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has fought all her life.

That’s not surprising, given that she was born in 1957, on the cusp of Samoa regaining its independence from New Zealand in 1962, due in part to the efforts of freedom fighter Fiame Mata’afa Faumuina Mata’ele—the country’s first prime minister—and his wife, La’ulu Fetauimalemau.

At 11, Fiame was sent to study in New Zealand and upon her father’s death in 1976, she was recalled to . . .

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