Dr. Runoko Rashidi is a Historian who was respectful enough to visit the Fiji islands and ask the Native Fijians themselves about their oral traditions of where they came from. This oral tradition is eagerly and disrespectfully attempted to be dismissed as POSSIBLY being a hoax by Western linguists and anthropologists, supposedly started by the missionaries in the 1800′s, even though the claim is without sufficient evidence. Meanwhile, the scientific industry still continues to ignore and hush Fijian accounts while replacing it with a fabrication of carefully selected and carefully omitted genetic, cultural, linguistic, and archeological data, in an attempt to carefully piece together a false “South East Asian Origin” that appears credible; while genetic, cultural, linguistic, and archeological data linking them to the rest of Cushite peoples in Africa, are neglected, hushed, and hidden safely away in the lower bunkers of European Museums.
There are MANY versions of the Fijian account that mention places of origin and In Africa many of us still know those places. Here is one version of the story told to me by Fijians who have been careful to keep it.
1ST ARRIVALS: Boat= Rogovoka/Lolopeau (From Egypt)
“This boat/canoe belonged to the Yavusa Malea who also named the boat for themselves as Lolopeau. This is the largest vessel of the people. It is said that on this arrival, the ancestors who touched down here first were from the Middle East and traveled to Africa. The region of Thebes (Cepi) was where they lived and settled.
Names in this group:
Rawaka-Ni-Vugalei (Born in Egypt).
His wife Ra dini Sina (Egyptian woman)
Their two children: Koya Nasau and Tui-Wai.
Kubunavanua and his wife Sina
Their children: Ravula, Kolimatua and Delainauluvatu.
Tura or Tera (Father of Lutunasobasoba & Kubunavanua)Head of Qali-Kamami Tribe
Kubunavanua and the wives of his two sons, Tuinayavu and Daunisai.
Taqa-na-ika was only down the African coastline. They came towards the horizon where the sun rises (Asia). This first boat would sail right across from coastline right across to the tip of Southern India. Then made a loop where they may have encountered the islands of Indonesia today and from there island hopped to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and possibly gone right across to the Tahitian Islands, rested for some time before they tracked backwards and stopped when Kubunavanua and his wife Sina got off in Toga and called their island Vunilagi. Also getting off with them was a chief of the Yavusa Malea TuiToga who got off with a wife he got in Tahiti called Siuepe/Sinhe, and the island he got off on he called Toga.
2nd ARRIVALS: Boat= Kaunitoni (From Taqa-na-ika)
In this boat came part of the Family of the Qali-Kamami tribe of whom Tura was head. They were from Taqa-ni-ika and the group from Vuda. This was led by Lutunasobasoba, Turas son, from Verata. Also with them were the Kawa Ni Tama-Lailai or descendants of the small people who were part of this voyage.
Names in this group:
Lutunasobasoba Na Ratu and his two wives, Ranadinisei and Nai.
Radiniseis children namely: Buisavulu, Rokomautu, and Rokoratu.
Nais children namely, Degei, Waicala, Nakumilevu, Ramasilevu, Kirinamoli, Coci, and Rokola.
Lutunasobasobas grand-children including Kailolo, Muneanaqo.
The Kawa Ni Tama-lailai (little people)
They left to follow Lutunasobasobas dad Tura and his brother Kubunavanua traveling around the tip of Southern Africa where they experienced hardship at sea. They then following the same route as Tura and hit the same southern tip of India, then left and hit Papua New Guinea. From here they set out again accidentally during this trip the boat rocks and they loose a lot of the cargo including the kato ni vola (stone casket) which carried all the history of the peoples, the details of their religion, knowledge of the world, and Rokolas yaya ni matai (building equipment). It is said that this encouraged the art of oral history. Eventually they hit Vuda Fiji.
3rd ARRIVALS BoatKaunitera(Toga)
Names in this group:
This was Kubunavanua
His Wife Sina
Their four sons Kolimatua, Ravula, Delainauluvatu, and Suretiviti.
They had first landed in Toga during the trip on the Rogovoka/Lolopeau. He was the younger son of Tura(Tera).
He heard about islands to the north that were big and heard that his relative Lutunasobasoba had set up over there, so he decided to move north with his wife and sons. They came over and landed at Burotukula. Their descendants are from what is today the Yatu Lau, the Eastern Group.
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Instead of me …
Instead of me writing a book, all we need to do is put all of our oral traditions together and the book will already be written.
In my discussions …
In my discussions with islanders, I’ve had many of them ask me where these place names are located cuz they don’t know anything about them, they don’t know how to interpret them, they dont’ know where the traditions are pointing them to. I’ve had to show them where the places are. I even had one Fijian/asian girl go as far to tell me she thought Taqanaika didn’t exist—until I showed her where it was on a map. LOL!
All the places of …
All the places of original origins in island traditions are not in the south pacific, as a result although the names are present in the traditions of island people, the knowledge about the locations of these places and who the people were that lived there are becoming lost and obscure as a result of the people mixing with asians and whites. The scientific industry is taking advantage of this and proclaiming places as “mythical.”
Melanesians are the …
Melanesians are the only people who for the most part are still mostly of original stock. But even there, assimilation is beginning. For, example, you look at a lot of Fijians today, and they are beginning to look different from the origina depictions of them because of assimilation. They’re manifesting an asian/black look of polynesians, and as a result many are confused as to whether they are polynesians or melanesians. In the olden days, they were distinctively classified as melanesians.
The Hawaiki people …
The Hawaiki people are becoming rarer to be replaced by this NEW face of the south pacific that represents more of a filipino, chinese, or white mix rather than indigenous islander. With each assimilated generation produced, the people are incorrectly still being classified as full islanders, and the culture is gradually being passed onto non-islander people. In about a century or more the south pacific will be asian and white rather than true islander. This is the desire of politics.
What I’ve noticed …
What I’ve noticed is that the more the islands become assimilated by Chinese, Filipino, British, French, Japanese etc. the people are forgetting their origins and trying to connect with the people they are beginning to physically resemble, which are the whites and asians. Technically the populations of polynesia, particularly, are really not fully islander, but are Samoan-Chinese, Tongan-chinese, Hawaiian-filipino, Tahitian-french-chinese etc. etc.
Hello. Yea, I use …
Hello. Yea, I use to, but the politics behind the industries are so corrupt that they don’t support any notions that don’t agree with the false perceptions of the world they want to create.
And as far as getting support from islanders, I’ve had mixed reactions, some support it cuz they know it’s what their oral traditions say, others deny their own oral traditions and want to be asian, and others deny the oral traditions and prefer to be classified as not related to anybody. So it’s been mixed.
thotsins u should …
thotsins u should write a book or sumin bro… u got so much knowledge it would b a shame if u didnt speak up like what the man ur gona get alot of support from the people of the pacific.. specialy the fijians pngs tongans vanuatu soloz new caledonians and all them other nesian nations.
Hi. Yes, the rest …
Hi. Yes, the rest of the world is related to Africans because all humans are cousins. But I have to make clear this relation is NOT by way of supposedly “all humanity coming from africa.”
In Africa we did not originate in Africa, our traditions trace at its furtheset to the middle east, as does the rest of humanity. This account of Fijians dates to about 2-3,000 years ago. Our relation is on the basis of coming from the same Cushite families. The rest of the world comes from other families.
@TrueGreatness73 “I …
@TrueGreatness73 “I already know we Polynesians are related to africans”, yeah and the rest of the world
im Tongan & we say …
im Tongan & we say kuli for dog too.. I already know we Polynesians are related to africans
I LOVE IT!!
I LOVE IT!!
We also eat lots …
We also eat lots and lots and lots of plantains, wrapped in leaves with coconut milk or other sauces and stews. Plantain and yams are very serious to African people. LOL!
Oh, almost forgot. …
Oh, almost forgot. For Palusami, we have a lot of foods like or similar to palusami. Excep in addition to beef, fish, chicken, cassava, taro root, other vegetables, or many other combinations can be wrapped in the taro leaves and cooked outdoors. We include sometimes palm oil sauce or peanut sauce, very sweet.
So, 22871987, you …
So, 22871987, you thought
“None of these r practised in Africa. No.”
Now you can see that in reality—all of them are still practiced in Africa and have been for thousands of years.
I wonder, how is it that can know you came from Africa and not think you carried over any of the culture?
Africa
Mai – water …
Africa
Mai – water
Kuli – dog
yaasa -hunt
ilikoona – skin
wane – man
And there’s many more.
Fiji
Wai- water
…
Fiji
Wai- water
Koli – dog
Vaka sasa a – hunt
Kulina – skin
Tagane – man
lol looks like he …
lol looks like he gave up. lol
So, I’ll do it for him…
Very powerful, …
Very powerful, that’s all I can say. Very powerful.
I’m waiting…
I’m waiting…
We made Masi before …
We made Masi before we moved on to weaving. It was the old way we made fabric for clothing. The practice is still widespread in Africa, so we make the bark cloth as well as weave.
Fijian masi making
watch?v=0vdZBcGMnZ4
African bark cloth making
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Papyrus paper making of Kemet (This is where it started, brother).
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LOL!
What did you think …
What did you think we ate, Worms? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We’ve been eating these things long before the south pacific was even settled. The settlement of Africa is older than the pacific. Comparing the pacific islands to Africa is like comparing 5 noodles to a bowl of noodles. Don’t forget you BROKE OFF from a culture that was already in existence but in its beginning stages and then isolated yourself on an island. So we not only do these basic things but also have more complex things as well.
Would you like to …
Would you like to know where Masi, Tapa, Kapa, Barkcloth originates?
Masi making is an old Egyptian practice, it is patterned after the way our ancestors in Kemet made Papyrus paper.
Strip the bark from the plant, soak it, pound it, stretch it, put the pieces together, keep pounding, set out to dry, paint it etc.
This is the way traditional paper was made.
We adapted the technique to trees in order to make clothing for the body. LOL!
“…speak Bauan …
“…speak Bauan Fijian?”
Oh, poor 22871987, I see you really don’t know anything about Africa at all.
Translate these words for me
Wai, koli, vaka sasa a, kulina, tagane.
I can’t believe you …
I can’t believe you asked me about something as common in Africa as Cocoyam.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We even have an annual festival every year celebrating it, the real giant ones too—just like in the Trobriand Islands, Vanuatu, etc.