The Chiefs' Country
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The Chiefs' Country

Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

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eBook - ePub

The Chiefs' Country

Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

About this book

In 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.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. OTHER UQ ePRESS BOOKS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. 1: MY FATHER’S LEGACY
  9. 2: RESEARCHING OUR TRADITIONAL CULTURE
  10. 3: MAKING A LIVING IN TOWN
  11. 4: MARRIAGES AND BRIDEPRICE
  12. 5: DEALING WITH SORCERY
  13. 6: OUR CLAIMS TO ANCESTRAL LANDS
  14. 7: WORKING WITH CHIEFS AND POLITICIANS
  15. 8: TROUBLE ON GUADALCANAL
  16. 9: MALAITA FIGHTS BACK
  17. 10: ENDING THE CONFLICT
  18. 11: LEADERSHIP AND POLITICS, TRADITION AND DEVELOPMENT
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX
  21. COPYRIGHT