Length2h 48m
About this audiobook
Imagine living in the country of your birth, and of your ancestors, yet being treated as a third‑class citizen. This is the plight of Solomoni people, whose forebears came to Fiji from the Solomon Islands as indentured labourers in the late 19th century.
Over the last 150 years, the Anglican Church has played a pivotal role in helping them, but it now faces its own challenges.
Their story includes massive injustices inflicted by Australian blackbirders, the economic forces that drove that trade, and the brutal conditions on Fiji’s cotton and coconut plantations, through to how climate change and Chinese power politics now intersect to deepen their hardship.
How this has come to be is explored in this accessible blend of history, economics and social analysis by an author who lived in Fiji between 2022 and 2024 and witnessed many of these communities, often living in slums and on the edge.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Spirituality and Religion
Length2 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9CHAPTER 8. BLENDING IN
2CHAPTER 1. SANDALWOOD, BÊCHE-DE-MER, COPRA AND COTTON …
10CHAPTER 9. VISITING THE KALEKANA COMMUNITY
3CHAPTER 2. THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
11CHAPTER 10. THE SOLOMONIS OF VANUA LEVU
4CHAPTER 3. BLACKBIRDING SOLOMONIS TO FIJI
12CHAPTER 11. THE FLIGHT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
5CHAPTER 4. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH COMES TO MELANESIA
13CHAPTER 12. ANGLICAN CHURCH WORK IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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6CHAPTER 5. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH COMES TO FIJI
14CHAPTER 13. SOLOMONIS ARE NOT AS ONE
7CHAPTER 6. FIJI GETS ITS BISHOP
15CHAPTER 14. CHATTEL SLAVERY REPARATIONS
8CHAPTER 7. WHEN, FROM WHERE AND TO WHERE
16End matters
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