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Fijian politician and television personality

Ratu Manoa Rasigatale (born 1946 or 1947) is a Fijian historian, journalist, musician, television personality and former politician. He is a former member of the Senate of Fiji and represented Rewa.

Rasigatale is from the village of Nabuli in Rewa Province.

In the 1970s he worked as a journalist for Fijian newspaper Nai Lalakai and Pacific Islands Monthly and was director and manager of the Fiji Dance Theatre cultural troupe. In 1985 he established the Fijian Cultural Center at the Pacific Harbour International Resort near Suva, where he planned to build a replica Drua. In 1993 and 1994 his dance troupe performed at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii as part of a cultural exchange. In 1994, it performed in Las Vegas.

In 2009 he hosted We Ni Yava Misiki. In 2016 he hosted documentary drama series Mai Muri Mai.

In October 2020 he was awarded the Fiji 50th Anniversary commemorative medal.

General references

  1. ^ "Qereqeretabua Dedicates Medal To His Wife". Fiji Sun. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  2. ^ "People". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 47, no. 10. 1 October 1976. p. 30. Retrieved 6 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "MY FIJI—STOP PLAYING WITH FIRE". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 44, no. 9. 1 September 1973. p. 23. Retrieved 6 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Fiji plays". Canberra Times. 1 December 1975. p. 3. Retrieved 6 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "'With the spirit behind you'-Fijians dance their way into the past". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 49, no. 7. 1 July 1978. pp. 31–33. Retrieved 6 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "A journey into Fiji's past". Canberra Times. 8 May 1985. p. 34. Retrieved 6 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "MANOA'S VISION Great Fijian "Galleon" planned for Pacific". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 56, no. 1. 1 January 1985. p. 44. Retrieved 6 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. "Rasigatale's US adventure". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 64, no. 9. 1 September 1994. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 6 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. Ruby Taylor-Newton (25 October 2009). "Manoa's new show". Fiji Times. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012.
  10. "TV shows launched". Fiji Times. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  11. "Rasigatale 'grateful' for recognition". Fiji Times. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2023.

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