Thoughts on a colonial mindset.

By PNG Echo I am often asked what attracted me to the politics of Papua New Guinea. I can only reply by evoking the country of my birth – Wales. Although I left Wales as a teenager, Wales has never left me – I see in Papua New Guinea many reflections of Wales – especially in the struggle for identity. My Country Today I was reminded of poet, Gerallt Lloyd Owen: a fiercely patriotic Welshman who, in 1972, published an antholology of poems entitled: ‘Cerddi’r Cywilydd’ which, translated from our language (Welsh),  means ‘The Poems of Shame’. The poems were Continue reading Thoughts on a colonial mindset.

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Four years ago – have things changed?

By PNG Echo I have forgotten how stunned the audience was after giving my speech at Bordeaux University, France, four years ago. Have we become so inured to the problems in PNG that we’ve normalized them?  Link to a video of the speech. 4 Years Ago Today I said: I am currently in France and have given a paper at a French University on the socio-economic effects of the extractive industry on the people of PNG and their (your) response to environmentalism. Taking into account my audience, the paper had to cover some very basic information. Many knew nothing at Continue reading Four years ago – have things changed?

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