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Nadia Kanegai
Nadia Kanegai is a Social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur, politician and historian from Vanuatu. She made the first study of women's traditional tattooing on Ambae Island, Ambae. She has stood as a candidate in three elections in Vanuatu and was a prominent Activism, community activist during the 2017 and 2018 eruptions of Manaro Voui. Early life Kanegai's family are from the island of Ambae Island, Ambae - her father, Antoine, was a boat builder. Both her parents were politically active: her father was a member of the Union of Moderate Parties (UMP) and her mother was a member of the Vanua'aku Pati, Vanua’aku Pati. Kanegai attended Malapoa College and then went to Australia for further study, returning to Vanuatu afterwards where she taught English and Social Science at her old college. She then returned to Australia once more for study for an MA in education. Cultural heritage In the mid-1980s Kanegai was awarded a grant from the Australian Government, via the Vanua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |