Nakaa's Awakening - King, Stacey M.
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The year is 1900, and John Williams has come to the remote Pacific island of Ocean Island (now known as Banaba) to oversee the new phosphate industry. His wife, Ella, and their two-year-old daughter, Gwennie, follow him to begin their new life. After her initial culture shock, Ella grows to love the island and its people and to care deeply about their plight as the phosphate mining gradually destroys their beautiful home. While John supervises hundreds of indentured workers, Ella and Gwennie get to know the Banaban people, their culture and beliefs. Tetabo, their houseboy, teaches Gwennie…mehr

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The year is 1900, and John Williams has come to the remote Pacific island of Ocean Island (now known as Banaba) to oversee the new phosphate industry. His wife, Ella, and their two-year-old daughter, Gwennie, follow him to begin their new life. After her initial culture shock, Ella grows to love the island and its people and to care deeply about their plight as the phosphate mining gradually destroys their beautiful home. While John supervises hundreds of indentured workers, Ella and Gwennie get to know the Banaban people, their culture and beliefs. Tetabo, their houseboy, teaches Gwennie about his people's magic and mysteries. John fears that his daughter is growing up like a native, but Ella refuses to send Gwennie to Australia to school. John, while loyal to the mining company, is uneasy at his superiors' treatment of the island and its people. Discontent and riots among the imported mine workers challenge him, the Banabans' anxiety about the mining worries him while the changes to his family perturb him. Nakaa's Awakening: Land of Matang is based on the author's researched family history. It is a story of conflicting loyalties, cultural differences and a family adjusting to a new environment while destructive mining practices threaten the near-extinction of the Banaban race. The survival of the Banaban people into the twenty-first century is a triumph of human spirit over industrial might. They continue to believe that good will overcome evil as they struggle to survive the wrath of the evil spirit Nakaa and his Awakening. Yet, though Matang was lost forever, a cherished tradition said that the ancestor gods had promised to return to their children one day, wherever they might be...
Autorenporträt
Stacey King is an accomplished entrepreneur, corporate executive and philanthropist with tremendous experience in highlighting and advocating for the Banabans, an indigenous Pacific people, over many decades. She grew up in the carefree surrounds of Brisbane and Gold Coast Australia, where daily neighbourhood activities contributed to her adventurous spirit. With Stacey's unending belief that anything in life was possible, she began her first business venture and purchased her first property at just 15 years of age. Over the years, while raising three children, she turned many of her creative ideas into various business ventures. In 1990 she discovered a collection of old family photographs capturing four generations of her family's lives on a remote Pacific Island called Banaba. It would set her on a mission to write her first book, Nakaa's Awakening-Land of Matang and tell the world about the injustice and plight of the Banaban people. Stacey went on to establish an international organisation, the Banaban Heritage Society, working on many aid projects over the years. During subsequent meetings with Banaban elders, she was asked to tell their story and the truth behind their cultural identity. During this process, she met Ken Sigrah, a spokesman representing major clans on the island. They soon discovered their shared passion to seek justice for the Banaban people and to one day see the rehabilitation of the homeland left destroyed by mining. They held the belief that their lives and destiny were intertwined, bringing them together so they could try and right the wrongs of the past. In 2004 they founded Nature Pacific in Australia, to market virgin coconut oil from Ken's relatives back in Fiji. Stacey had already been involved in the natural health industry so marketing the family's coconut oil seemed a natural progression. It also provided the opportunity to get their brand to carry the Banaban name and story to a much broader audience. From humble beginnings working out of the family's small garage and with the assistance of their two daughters, the company would turn into a multi-million dollar global brand.