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By Pokere Paewai of RNZ Huia Publishers has won the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year, Oceania, at the Bologna Children’s Book...
Huia Publishers have won the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year, Oceania, at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy.
Huia Publishers has been a trailblazer for publishing for 30 years, committed to providing a platform for Māori voices and perspectives. Robyn Bargh founded the business in 1991, when the publishers of the time weren’t producing the books she wanted to read, the books that spoke to her experience as Māori. Since then, the Māori-led business has produced more than 1000 books in te reo Māori, and thousands more fiction and non-fiction titles written in English. When Huia first began, books that highlighted Māori and te reo were seen as niche products, and not something that could sus...
Three years after helping to get rid of this upstart African democratic leader, the United States was instrumental in putting away Nelson Mandela for 28 years. The horror of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Iraq (to name just a selection) were still to come…. 60 years on, Patrice Lumumba’s assassination stands as a gruesome reminder of post-colonial brutality by Peter Bolton Jan. 17, 2021 "Information Clearing House" – Exactly 60 years ago today, Congolese national liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Those responsible w...
Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:43 pm, January 17th, 2021 - 18 comments I have a problem with dimwits waving around a slogan of “free speech” without understanding it. Ignorant fools more interested in screaming slogans than understanding the constraints of their ‘right’. The events of the last 4 years in the USA have made that very clear. So I thought I’d point out a few facts of life about constraints on freedom of speech – with a sidetrack through...