Beautiful Wewak Beach Centre for Sepik Heritage Meeting Honorable Luamanuvao Winnie Laban of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand last month at the Council Room of the University of Papua New Guinea was indeed memorable. Honorable Laban is an Associate Professor and Assistant Vice Chancellor (Pasifika) at the Victoria University. I had the rare moment of discovery that she was the first Pacific Islander Member of Parliament in New Zealand and is a close relative of the famous Pacific writer and elder, Albert Wendt. Honorable Laban’s grandfather was one of the first Samoan missionaries to Papua New Guinea. UPNG VC Prof. Albert Mellam Meets Hon. Luamanuvao WInnie Laban Her invitation for collaborative research and learning from each other strengthened my thinking about the kind of cultural research we do in Oceania. I am now researching folk narrative structures in literary and cultural productions of Oceania. My interest in teaching Pac
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.