Futa helu biography of william

          Futa Helu wanted to make 'Atenisi into a centre of exchange between European and Polynesian cultures, and as a base for free thought in the.

        1. In his recently published book On Tongan Poetry Futa Helu, the hero of Tongan Ark, describes a genre of poem called laumatanga, which is.
        2. The loss of inspirational Tongan philosopher, educator and social critic 'Ilaisa Futa 'i Ha'angana Helu, who died on Tuesday at the age of 75, will be felt.
        3. Futa Helu was born on 17 June in Lotofoa, Foa, Ha'apai, Tonga.
        4. Both Futa Helu and W. G Jilek drew attention to case studies, thus showing sensitivity to the par- ticularizing style of much local theorizing.

          5. The loss of inspirational Tongan philosopher, educator and social critic 'Ilaisa Futa 'i Ha'angana Helu, who died on Tuesday at the age of 75, will be felt.!

          Februay 20, 2009
          (This entry is an edited version of an article I wrote for the next Peace Corps Tonga newsletter.

          My Peace Corps assignment is to teach Economics and reorganize the library at ‘Atenisi University.)

          TONGAN Professor 'Ilaisa Futa 'i Ha'angana Helu (age 75) passed away on Tuesday, February 2 in Tongatapu. He was an icon of late 20th century Tonga, highly learned in Tongan culture and language as well as Western philosophy, literature and science.

          Futa Helu has valuable articles in his Critical Essays: Cultural.

          He founded and guided the only truly independent institution of higher learning in Tonga and had enormous influence on the pro-democracy movement. He loved Tonga deeply, and because of that love was one of the harshest critics of some contemporary Tongan trends.



          Futa was born in 1934 at Lotofoa in Foa, Ha'apai, and he was one of the founding class of 12 in the newly established Tonga High School in 1947, which was started by the government to provide a secondary education for Tongans comparable to what was then only