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Pages in category "Actors of Samoan descent" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Cooper Andrews;
Fāgogo is a word in the Samoan language to describe a type of storytelling of the Samoa Islands. [1] It is called "a performing art, almost a type of theatre, where people, events and stories are brought to life through the skills, voice and action of a narrator". [ 1 ]
Lees was born in Auckland, New Zealand. [1] He was brought up in an environment where Samoan was commonly spoken, so he grew up thinking of himself as being Samoan. He got his first acting job because of "being brown", as the theatre required brown people running around on stage killing Captain Cook.
Samoan literature can be divided into oral (pre-colonial and post-colonial) and written literatures, in the Samoan language and in English or English translation, [1] and is from the Samoa Islands of independent Samoa and American Samoa, and Samoan writers in diaspora. Samoan as a written language emerged after 1830 when Tahitian and English ...
Samoan male film actors (3 P) Pages in category "Samoan male actors" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Samoan male actors (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Samoan actors" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Samoan is an analytic, isolating language and a member of the Austronesian family, and more specifically the Samoic branch of the Polynesian subphylum. It is closely related to other Polynesian languages with many shared cognate words such as aliʻi, ʻava, atua, tapu and numerals as well as in the name of gods in mythology.
Limalama is a Polynesian art of self-defense, created and founded by Tu’umamao "Tino" Tuiolosega (1931–2011). Tuiolosega created the word "Limalama" as a portmanteau derived from the Samoan language words lima (hand) and malamalama (understanding). Tuiolosega defined Limalama to mean "knowledge and understanding", and translated it as "hand ...