Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1974Vol. 45, No. 9

Culture my culture

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

Page 6666

By Albert Leomala

Culture my culture why are you leaving why are you running away oh culture stop stop i need you culture i want you to be with me to remain with me for sukwe and for lagia for mateana and for feasting culture please my culture come back come back to me destroy the western stop him growing burn him down for he’s killing you oh culture oh my culture come back i need you and i’ll die with you.

* In North Pentecost dialect sukwe is a pig killing ceremony, lagia is a marriage ceremony, mateana is a funeral ceremony.

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