Late Dr. Regis Stella.PNG writer and scholar His father was killed during the Bougainville Crisis. After the Crisis his mother and sisters fled in-land and settled at a plateau on a rolling hill at Bana in the Nagovis area. They planted coacoa to regain their strengths and lives back. Last Christmas he returned to the village to put up his mother’s headstone. On leaving the village to Port Moresby, the late Regis Tove Stella told his sisters that it was the last time he would return home alive. Instead a few months later his body was flown back to his village to lay next to his mother. For two nights and two days the people from all over the area to mourn his passing. On the week he died I did a book review of his latest book: Unfolding Petals: Readings in Papua New Guinea Literature , which would have been launched a day more if he had remained alive. Dr. Regis Tove Stella was someone I shared part of my life with for the better
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.