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Thoughts on a colonial mindset.

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By PNG Echo I am often asked what attracted me to the politics of Papua New Guinea. I can only reply by evoking the country of my birth – Wales. Although I left Wales as a teenager, Wales has never left me – I see in Papua New Guinea many reflections of Wales – especially in the struggle for identity. My Country Today I was reminded of poet, Gerallt Lloyd Owen: a fiercely patriotic Welshman who, in 1972, published an antholology of poems entitled: ‘Cerddi’r Cywilydd’ which, translated from our language (Welsh),  means ‘The Poems of Shame’. The poems were Continue reading Thoughts on a colonial mindset.→

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Tuberculosis: I hate to say it but… “I told you so…it was a no brainer”

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By PNG Echo This writer is a non-medical, interested observer, of Tuberculosis (TB) who, having been expertly informed by leading global medicos and researchers (as an invited fellow of the National Press Foundation to the World Conference on Lung Health 2012 in Kuala Lumpur) and who having witnessed, first hand, its devastation in the district of Goilala, Central Province, has been been writing about it ever since. In particular, I have bothered, cajoled, shamed (tried to) and bullied everyone and anyone I could with the purpose of getting a ‘GeneXpert’ diagnostic machine for the remote clinic in Tapini, Goilala in Continue reading Tuberculosis: I hate to say it but… “I told you so…it was a no brainer”→

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