Trying to find a Samoan song I was taught as a child, includes the lyrics " kua fiafia". If anyone has a link, that would be great. Google doesn't recognize it as a song.
It's a delightful simple tune I have sung now for decades to the confusion of my New England neighbors. My grade school class sang it at our school's May Day celebration which, in Hawai'i was a celebration of all the different cultures in our state. We learned Bon dancing, square dancing, hula (of course), Filipino stick dancing (tinikling), the Kamehameha waltz, etc, and songs from around the Pacific.
#Researchers include Professor Sandy Morrison & Project Lead Lora Vaioleti, who joined Pacific Mornings to elaborate on their studies.
Violeti says a survey with 600 respondees revealed there’s particular interest from #TonganWomen to leave the Kingdom, a gender difference not reflected in the #Samoan respondents.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)
“Growing up queer, I never saw any sort of #Samoan or Pacific representation that were queer and what’s been really amazing about me being open about my identity and my story is being able to connect with other #queer#Pasifika people in media or who have been working in media for a really long time,” said Afualo.
I do not have Pacific Islander ancestry myself, but I have been practicing the Samoan art of Siva Afi (fireknife dancing) for 12 years. I worked with world-champion fireknife dancers, Samoan speakers, and a Samoan artist to create a card game about it: