Category PNG Culture

by Rod Cassidy “In the late 60s one Matthias Yaliwan convinced his 60,000 followers that wealth and goods would come to the people if the trigonometric marker on top of Mt. Turu near Yangoru was removed: game would return to…

By Ian Ogston This article is a reproduction of an article originally published in our first Armi Wantoks journal (Vol 1 2007) Death’s grim shroud hung over us like the dull grey fog of a winter’s morning. The finality of…

Lindy Horton As a 21 year old bride, I waited with much anticipation to the start of married life as the wife of a National Serviceman in Taurama Barracks in Papua New Guinea. It took five weeks for the ‘call…