Fiji: Where Has All The Music Gone?: Reflections On The Fortieth Anniversary Of Fiji’s ...

Fiji: Where Has All The Music Gone?: Reflections On The Fortieth Anniversary Of Fiji’s Independence Brij V. Lal, 2011   Fiji’s postcolonial journey has been fraught. The promise of prosperity and political stability, high at the time of independence in 1970, dissipated soon afterward as the politics of ethnicity came to the fore and as disagreements developed among indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians about the nature and direction of public policy. A military coup in 1987 removed a...

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