Senior lecturer in children's literature and language teaching., University of Waikato Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of ...

VANUATU's second largest island is not a luxury destination but it's all the more authentic, writes Sarah Nicholson. Rather than finding a sturdy building with big windows and rows of seats for ...

The sea turtle pendant on the leather strap around Sethla Amil's neck hangs directly below the fine line of his pale goatee. He wears a Quiksilver T-shirt and cut-off tracksuit pants on his lean frame ...

Cyclone Pam (Category 5) which tore through the South Pacific and struck Vanuatu in March 2015 was extremely destructive. While there were few deaths, damage to land, agriculture and property was ...

"My great-grandfather was the last cannibal to live in the country," says Antonny Arnhambat, slurping meat from a mud crab claw. My guide and I have already bonded over a mutual appreciation for third ...

“BERNARD DEACON was a brilliant young ethnologist who in 1925 went out from Cambridge to study the natives of the northern New Hebrides, and particularly of the large island of Malekula. After more ...

Bihaen long 10 fala yia, National Arts Festival blong Vanuatu hem gohet nao long aelan blong Malekula long Malampa Province stat long yestede. Praem Minista Charlot Salwai ibin openim disfala namba 4 ...

In the rural stretches of Malekula, new drying stations built from converted shipping containers sit near coconut plantations where local workers prepare harvested copra for processing. Nearby, ...

HERE indeed is a book, immense, painstaking and prodigious in sheer material. Although not fully competent to appraise its ethnological content, I feel that certain connexions which such a work evokes ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of its many languages are distantly related to te reo Māori and ...