Pasifika

English

Etymology

From English Pacific, changed to use Samoan orthography.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈsɪfɪkə/

Noun

Pasifika (plural Pasifikas or Pasifika)

1. (New Zealand) Pacific Islander.
   • 2018, The Guardian, "Post-colonial talk back: seeing London in the South Seas", Selina Tusitala Marsh, 24 February 2018 (Selina Tusitala Marsh is a poet-scholar and New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017–2019)

     My political stance as a Pasifika poet has always been one of inclusion – I'm a bridge not a wall.