Some random links and news relating to PNG: Motu Koita people want compensation for colonialization: one unexpectedly interesting thing about this article is its avoidance of the terms ‘tribe’ or ‘indigenous’ — ‘tribe’ is mentioned once but stays out of the headline, and the Motu Koita spokesman uses the term ‘landowner’ once. Instead ‘people’ is the word used to described these… people. It works just fine.
For more on the colonization of PNG you can read Chris Ballard and Bill Gammage talk about Taim Blo Masta, specifically the Fox and Hagen-Sepik patrols.
In more recent news China is PNG’s third largest trading partner , and InterOil is having hard times because, among other things, the Prime Minister thinks the government’s contract with InterOil should be renegotiated. Somare himself is under scrutiny as the opposition compare him to Mugabe.
There’s lots more of course, but that’s what was open in my browser window this morning.
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