Afaese Manoa (born 1942 in

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) is a

an writer and musician.

National anthem of Tuvalu

Afaese Manoa is the author of words and music to an anthem, ''

Tuvalu mo te Atua "Tuvalu for the Almighty" ( tvl, "Tuvalu mo te Atua") is the national anthem of Tuvalu Tuvalu ( or ; formerly known as the Ellice Islands) is an island country and microstate in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. I ...

'' (''Tuvalu for the Almighty''), in the

Tuvaluan language Tuvaluan (), often called Tuvalu, is a Polynesian language closely related to the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It is more or less distantly related to all other Polynesian languages, such as Hawaiian, Māori, Tahitian, Samoan, Tokelauan ...

. In 1978, the year of Tuvalu's independence from the

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, Manoa's anthem lyrics and music were adopted as the

national anthem A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. American, Central Asian, and European n ...

of Tuvalu.

Reputation as writer

Manoa is the best-known writer in a language which has relatively little literature. Along with other

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writers, such as

Joanne Gobure Joanne Ekamdeiya Gobure (born April 26, 1982 in Nauru) is a Nauruan poet. Biography Gobure was born in Denigomodu and settled in a district of Uaboe. Gobure is the cousin of Nauruan tennis player Chris Gobure, who played in the South Pacific Ga ...

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, his best-known writing evinces a strong sense of religious vocation.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20071214001633/http://www.national-anthems.org/anthems/country/TUVALU 1949 births National anthem writers Tuvaluan writers Tuvaluan musicians Living people Tuvaluan Christians {{Tuvalu-bio-stub