Albert Maori Kiki

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Albert Maori Kiki (born September 21, 1931 , † 1993 ) was a pathologist and politician from Papua New Guinea . He was a member of a society of the Papuans from the Purari River. He was a co-founder of the political party Pangu Pati (PP), which was founded in 1967 and which provided the first independent government. In 1972 he became Minister for Land and Environment under the first Prime Minister Michael Somare . Albert Maori Kiki was Deputy Prime Minister from 1975 to 1977.

literature

  • Andrew Strathern: Kiki: Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime: An Autobiography from New Guinea. by Albert Maori Kiki . In: Man . New Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun., 1969), pp. 323-324; German version: I've lived for 10,000 years. Ullstein, Berlin 1969
  • Brij V. Lal; Kate Fortune: The Pacific Islands: an encyclopedia , Volume 1, University of Hawai'i Press, 2000