Testimonials

Book launch Pasifika-style with traditional music, dance and food. The Cook Islands Maori community celebrate the publication of Kai Korero: A Cook Islands Maori Coursebook at Books Pasifika, Samoa House, 1995. 

“On a personal level I realised that all my entire life, many book titles published by Pasifika Press had been present and shaped my understanding of the world and my Samoan language and culture. I cannot speak highly enough of my respect for Mr Holding and his determination over the years to bring seminal Pacific publications to wider audiences.” – Leone Samu Tui, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Associate Curator Documentary Heritage (Pacific Collections).

“The publication of The Samoa Islands, a major reference work, is of great significance to the Samoan people. A true Taonga!” - Maualaivao Albert Wendt ONZ CNZM (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Auckland.)

“People from all over Auckland would be in the shop every day, and we would often host visitors from far afield. The importance of this institution has largely been unknown outside Pacific communities, but I cannot think of another bookshop in our country that has been so culturally important to the community it served. It was more or less the only place people could access important resources in their own languages, or specialist academic writing about the Pacific and issues important to Pacific people.” - Kevin Hague, Former Bookseller and M.P.                                           

 

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