Langakali Author:Konai Helu Thaman A collection of poems by the Fijian poet Konai Helu Thaman. — Konai was born in Nuku'olafa, Tonga, and attended the Wesleyan Primary School, and later the Tonga High School, before departing for Auckland, NZ, to study under a Tongan Government Scholarship in 1963. She graduated from Auckland University in 1968. She returned to Tonga and taught fo... more »r three years at Tonga High School. In 1972 she left for the USA and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1974 with an MBA in International Education. She then returned to the South Pacific and joined the staff of the University of the South Pacific where she became a senior Lecturer in the School of Education.« less