Konai helu thaman biography of christopher

Tongan poet and academic

Konai Helu Thaman (born 1946) is a poet and academic from Tonga. Thaman is one of the first significant poet and researcher to have emerged from the South Pacific.

Early life and education

Thaman was born in 1946 in the city of Nuku'alofa, Tonga.

Konai helu thaman biography of christopher

She attended Free Wesleyan Primary School and later entered Tonga High School.^[1]

Thaman studied at the University of Auckland where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in geography in 1967. Then completed a year at the Auckland Secondary Teachers' College.

From 1972 to 1973, Thaman worked as a research assistant in the United States at the University of California in Santa Barbara where she graduated with a master's degree in education. She later completed a PhD in education at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in 1988.^[1]

Career

Between 1969 and 1972, Thaman was a teacher in Tonga at Tonga High School.^[2] She has worked at the University of