We're back for 2026! Quick update from Laki & Gen
In this welcome back episode, Laki and Gen catch up on a big year of travel, learning, and growth, both personally and for The Moanan. From the Solomon Islands, Palau, Fiji, Samoa, and Australia, to WIPCE here in Tāmaki Makaurau, they reflect on what being on the ground across the region actually taught them — including hard lessons about knowledge protocols, indigenous hierarchy, and the gap between knowing the right things and doing them the right way.
They also dig into three big ideas that have come to define why The Moanan exists: historical amnesia (the forgetting of what colonisation…
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