Abureti Takaio is an I-Kiribati

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and academic. He was, at one time prior to the mid-1990s, Minister for the

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and Phoenix Groups. In 2002, he was an unsuccessful candidate to the

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(national House of Assembly). Takaio is the author of "Control: 'E Taku te Kamitina'", published in the book ''Kiribati: Aspects of History'', a compendium of articles on I-Kiribati history by I-Kiribati academics.TALU, Alaima & al., ''Kiribati: Aspects of History'', 1979, published jointly by the Institute of Pacific Studies of the

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and by the I-Kiribati Ministry of Education, no ISBN

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