11 episodes
The Moanan The Moanan
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The Moanan Podcast is a platform connecting Pacific knowledge to Pacific peoples. Each week, we share knowledge & wisdom from those of the Moana, from various fields & disciplines. This podcast is for the young Pacific person, raised in the west, wanting to connect to their cultural roots & ancestral homes.
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EP 10 - Q&A w Gen & Laki (The Moanan)
Our final episode for SZN 1!
For this episode we asked you, our community, to send in questions & topics for us to discuss. We had a range of history & contemporary topics sent in so thank you to everyone who responded!
We cover topics from non-Moanans practicing & selling kava, to ever changing Moanan cultures of the diaspora, ideas of blood quantum and much more.
We want to say a big thank you to everyone that’s engaged with the podcast, we’re stoked that we’ve been able to create an online community of Moanans from around the globe. We’re excited to bring even more content to you all via this podcast & our social media
The Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!
Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Email: hello@themoanan.com -
EP 09 - Bradford Haami
Final guest for season one!
In this episode, Bradford Haami (Ngāti Awa), an accomplished author, researcher & lecturer covers a range of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge):
Pepeha & Whakapapa (genealogy)
Connections between Māori and the rest of the Moana
Indigenous spirituality and Christianity
The Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!
Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Email: hello@themoanan.com -
EP 08 - Manase Lua
Our guest this week is Manase Lua, a matāpule from his village of Vaini in the Kingdom of Tonga. A keen learner of Moanan history, a community & cultural leader, our talanoa with Manase took us on a journey to learn about our ancestral links across the Moana. We also talk about the lived reality of our diasporic experience as Moanans growing up in the west.
The Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!
Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Email: hello@themoanan.com -
EP 07 - Ma'ara Maeva
Kia orana! In this episode we sat down with archeologists & cultural educator Ma’ara Maeva - a native to Mauke, Cook Islands. In our talanoa he walked us through the journey of our earliest ancestors of the Pacific and the evidence of their migration from South East Asia into the Moana.
Throughout this episode Ma’ara shares some incredible archeological facts such as the links between Polynesia and South America plus much more.
The Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!
Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Email: hello@themoanan.com -
EP 06 - Daren Kamali
Bula vinaka! This week we are joined by multi disciplinary artist Daren Kamali from Fiji who shares his knowledge and experience of the Ulucavu - the Fijian wig making custom. He shares the spiritual & culture knowledge that underpins this practice along with his experience reviving a practice that was lost for over a hundred years.
The Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!
Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Email: hello@themoanan.com -
EP 05 - Richard Moyle pt 2
In part 2 of our chat with Professor Richard Moyle, he shares with us research he conducted on the island of Takū (PNG). In this episode he shares histories and knowledges of the indigenous spirituality that is practiced in this remote part of the Pacific. He also shares how these practices have similarities and links with Samoa and Tonga.
links to Richard Moyle's work:
https://archives.library.auckland.ac.nz/resources/richard_moyle_samoa_recordings
https://youtube.com/@richardmoyle6804?si=Oo83FO9IQnw0Vcb5
The Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!
Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Email: hello@themoanan.com