“It was a great experience to be trained in New Zealand and a great privilege that the government looked after us,” he says. Muliagatele was raised and educated in Samoa until he was 20, when he travelled to New Zealand on a government scholarship and attended teachers’ college in Auckland for two years.Īrmed with his NZ Certificate of Teaching, he returned to Samoa to work out his bond, where he taught primary and then junior high school in Apia. His thesis, Notions of Respect and Politeness in a Transnational Samoan Community: Toe Laumeanuti o le Fa’aaloalo i Agatausili a Samoa i Atualuluga, focuses on the Samoan matai (chiefs) ava (kava) ceremony as a metaphor for respect (faaaloalo), and has never been done before.
Educator Muliagatele Vavaō Fetui, who has devoted his life to teaching the Samoan language and culture, can now add another impressive string to his bow.Īt 78, he has graduated with his PhD in Pacific Studies from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts in the autumn ceremonies, after completing only the second PhD thesis ever written entirely in Samoan.
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