What is the Wantok System?
https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/mjt/32-2_134.pdf The term wantok arose in colonial times, when Papua New Guinea indigenes found themselves working on plantations away from their families and traditional lands. A communal people, they sought others with whom they could relate and on whom they could rely. Where possible, these were people who spoke the same language as them, although […]
What About the Wantok System?
Andrew Murray, Sydney College of Divinity, Australia https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/mjt/32-2_134.pdf Abstract The terms “wantok” and “wantok system” elicit a wide range of feelings, from heartfelt thankfulness for close relationships to near despair when the wantok system intervenes to disrupt transactions in modern society. The terms are ubiquitous in common speech in Melanesia, but surprisingly little used in […]
Wantok System
The Face of Melanesia-hood
We invoke God by inviting as many Melanesians as possible to fast on regular basis: Fridays and Saturdays every week, and fast on other important days such as Christmas, Passover, independence day, … to pray at least one minute every hour, and to pray when fasting. to praise God in celebrations every time for all […]
Democracy concept lost
DEVELOPED democratic countries such as the US and UK elect leaders on merit and on certain requirements -especially policies.They elect people who know how to run a democracy. More so they have citizens who know and understand how democracy works. Having said that, it’s quite conflicting and contradictory to adopt a political system that is […]
Wantok system corrupts the country
By Milton Ragaruma – the Island Sun DEAR EDITOR, as a student and a concerned citizen of the Solomon Islands, I urge all government sectors and citizens to stop practising wantok system in the country. This is due to the fact that wantok system produces corruption; and does not promote the standard of living in […]
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The Wantok Democracy
Wantok Democracy is a Melanesian style of Democracy being promoted by the upcoming free and independent nation-state of the Republic of West Papua, situated in the Western half of the Isle of New Guinea. for further information, please type the following terms in google.com or other search engines: 1. Tribal Democracy 2. Melanesian Democracy 3. […]
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