Ruperake petaia biography

  • Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia is a poet and writer from Samoa.
  • Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia (born 11 April 1951) is a poet and writer from Samoa.
  • Born on April 11, 1951, Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia is a published poet.

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    Albert Wendt is an acclaimed Samoan-born novelist and poet. Wendt is of German heritage through his great-grandfather from his patrilineal ancestry. This heritage is reflected in a number of his poetry works. Wendt won a scholarship to study in New Zealand in 1952 at New Plymouth Boys High School. After finishing high school Wendt studied at Ardmore Teacher's Collage and then graduated from Victoria University with a Masters degree in History. His Masters' thesis was about the Mau, Samoa's independence movement from colonialism during the early 1900s and was titled Guardian and Wards: A study of the origins, causes and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa. Wendt returned home to Samoa in 1965 to teach at Samoa College, and then in 1969 he became the principal of the institution. In 1974 he moved to Suva, Fiji, where he became a lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. He returned home once again in 1977 to set up the University of the South Pacific Centre in Samo

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    Blue Rain: Book 2, #1

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    By Ruperake Petaia

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    This is Petaia's first collection of poetry. It fryst vatten heavily critical of the colonialist influence on education in particular and generally on the Samoan culture as it were. The new way of life that outside influences have imposed upon the younger generations of the country continue to begrudge the older generation; the guardians of the ancient culture and way of life of the Samoan people.
    Such poems as Blue Rain, Kidnapped, Father and Son and so on, något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans the feelings of the poet about the dilemma of western influences that are slowly crippling and strangling the indigenous naturlig eller utan tillsats and beauty of these people's ancient culture and way of life. However, despite the 'angry' naturlig eller utan tillsats of many of the poems, the overriding tone of this collection fryst vatten the poets love for family and children and country and the purity of beauty that flowers, hearts, stars, hopes, dreams, smiles and o

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    Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia

    Samoan writer

    Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia (born 11 April 1951) is a poet and writer from Samoa. His poem Blue Rain became the title of a collection of his poems first published in 1980 with later editions in the 1990s. The collection included the satirical poem Kidnapped (1974) which explores themes about the loss of traditional Samoan knowledge. Like other Samoan writers such as Albert Wendt, Petaia's work explores themes about the effects of colonialism and Western influences on Samoan culture and society.[1]

    Petaia was born in Samoa. He attended Samoa College and worked as a clerk in the Public Service Commission in 1973. In 1978 he won a government scholarship to study at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.[2] In 1980, he graduated with a B.A. in Public Administration and Economic Geography. He returned to Samoa where he has since continued to work in the public service in management roles.

    In 1992, his poetry Patches

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