Matatuhi foundation to publish MOA Love Letters Poetry collection.

Matatuhi foundation to publish MOA Love Letters Poetry collection.

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26 November 2021
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Matatuhi Foundation
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This petition had 9 supporters

Why this petition matters

Started by Naomi MOA Dance

Naomi Moa  Ngati Tiano is a Nerore ( cultural guardian) who has written a collection of Poems called  MOA Love Letters : A journey of Aroha guided by the Moon Phrase which is being petitioned to be published by  the New Zealand Givernment Funded Publishing house Matuthui Foundation as a work of cultural and ethnic significance. Naomi Moa is a Black British Dancer Wrtter of Jamaican British Ehtnic Origin, her ngai is of the Te Awara Ranginui  from the Bay of Plenty region which was acknowledged by this hapu in 1998, ( Ranginui means of the lineage of Solomon I.e Nubian African, Naomi Moa has a Blood connection with this Hapu which goes back thousand of years ). Naomi Moa  is a unique  literary voice who connects the dots of our Māori canoes , who came form tAotearoa New Zealand  800- 1000 years ago from the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean, of which the  Naomi Moa  has a shared origin with alongside her  West African Ashanti  bloodline  in terms of ethnic origin and identity.  Please sign this petition to ask Matuthui to  publish MOA Love Letters and  distribute it widely is  to knowledge our rich Heritage as Maui people, making this work accessible for the general public to buy*(* NB not reproduce but to protect and develop Maui Cultural Narratives and Preserve, Decolonise and Restore our Heritage) in bookshops worldwide.
MOA Love Letters as a unique collection of poems about  an amazing journey that the writer took to find liberation in COVID 19 Lockdown which derives to be heard. Printing an  emerging and important Black Female writer  is why Black Lives Matters. No copies of MOA Love letters have been bought buy the public or published so let’s support it’s development today.

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  • Matatuhi Foundation