Beautiful Sandy Beach @ Budibudi Island. Photo: Winduo In 2007 I made it into Budibudi Island from Gizo, Solomon Islands. Budibudi is a coral atoll with a less than a 100 people living a life of fisherman without much modern communication. It is really isolated from the rest of Papua New Guinea. Budibudi is one of the atoll in the Woodland Islands group, in the Trobriands ring. I remembered Budibudi vividly as if it was only yesterday. It remained unspoilt, untouched, and remote to most of us. It’s contact with the rest of Papua New Guinea is infrequent. Until recently that was the impression I had of Budibudi Island. I may have been wrong all along. An article, (Monday 24 June 2019), in The Guardian , written by Kate Lyons , read: “Bust in Budi Budi: the day a fisherman hauled in $50m worth of cocaine” catches my attention. How could this be? It is possible given the isolation of Budibudi straddled in between Autonomous Region of Bougainville and the rest of Woo...
Chronicles the stories of education, books, writing, and reading in the life of Steven Edmund Winduo, PNG writer extraordinaire, literacy advocate, social literary activist, literary scholar, & teacher. Fern Ridge is a translation of Safla Rama, where home is for SEW.