Indians were Fiji's shopkeepers, doctors and civil servants. The races did not mix, but neither did they fight. Mostly, they rubbed along together. This dual world was the province of Kamisese Mara.

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji’s first prime minister and the dominant statesman in Pacific Island regional affairs for nearly 30 years, has died. He was 83. Mara, a former Rhodes scholar who led ...

Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara ... he was called back to Fiji on the instruction of the Fijian leader, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, to be prepared for wider fields of human, and chiefly ...

A three-day state funeral has begun in Suva for Fiji's former leader Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. The capital of the South Pacific nation was brought to a standstill by thousands of well-wishers who turned ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji’s first prime minister and a dominant statesman in Pacific Island regional affairs for nearly 30 years, has died, New Zealand media reported Monday. He was 83.

Fiji became an independent sovereign state on 10th October 1970 when its colonial status was abrogated. Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of independent Fiji, received from Prince ...

Leading the home side was one Kamisese Mara ... developed a bond with Walter Hadlee. Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, Mara’s great-uncle and supreme chieftain of Fiji, had by then marked Mara as his ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who died on Sunday aged 83, became President of Fiji in 1994 after earlier serving as a district officer and then the first Prime Minister of the South Seas dominion.

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, considered to be founding father of modern Fiji, died Sunday at the age of 83, report agencies. The elder statesman, who had just returned from from New Zealand ...

Alexander Downer: It is with great regret that I learned this morning of the death of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the former President of Fiji, on 18 April. Ratu Mara was a key figure in the building ...