Ruperake petaia poet and author

(born 11 April 1951) is a poet and writer from Samoa.

Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia is a poet and writer from Samoa.

Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia is a published poet.

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November 12, 2017

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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 Samoa. Wendt took up a professorship of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland, where he taught New Zealand and Pacific literature from 1988 to 2006, becoming one of the first Samoan and Pacific Island professors in New Zealand. Wendt has written several novels, collections of short stories and p

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Biography

Born on April 11, 1951, Sapa’u Ruperake Petaia is a published poet. He served as the Director of the Ministry of the Post and Telecommunications for the island nation of Samoa. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration and Economic Geography from the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, in 1980. Sapa’u also has a Master’s in Public Administration from Trinity University (USA), which he earned through their long-distance learning program. After completing his undergraduate degree at Samoa College, Petaia returned to Western Samoa where he worked in the Public Service Commission, restarting a career that began in 1973. In 1987 he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Commission. In 1989 he was appointed the Director of the then Post Office Department, and in 2000 he was delegated and appointed to his present position.

Brief History of Samoa

The Dutch first visited Western Samoa in 1722. However, people of Polynesian descent primarily inhabit the island to this day. The Second Samoan Civil War resulted in the U.S. annexation of eastern Samoa (still an American territory and called American Samoa) and German control of the western islands in 1899. New Zealand occupied the German islands in 1914 during World War I, and subsequently administ