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Tongan poet and academic

Konai Helu Thaman (born ) is a poet and academic from Tonga. Thaman is one of the first significant poet and researcher to have emerged from the South Pacific.

Early life and education

Thaman was born in in the city of Nuku'alofa, Tonga.

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She attended Free Wesleyan Primary School and later entered Tonga High School.^[1]

Thaman studied at the University of Auckland where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in geography in Then completed a year at the Auckland Secondary Teachers' College.

From to , Thaman worked as a research assistant in the United States at the University of California in Santa Barbara where she graduated with a master's degree in education. She later completed a PhD in education at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in ^[1]

Career

Between and , Thaman was a teacher in Tonga at Tonga High School.^[2] She has worked at the University of the South Pacific since and currently