Epeli Hau'ofa

Writer & Anthropologist

(1939 – 2009) · Oceania

Tongan-Fijian writer, anthropologist, and academic whose 1993 essay 'Our Sea of Islands' transformed how Pacific peoples understand their place in the world. He argued that Oceania is not a scattering of tiny islands but a vast sea of connections. He taught at the University of the South Pacific until his death in 2009.