Author Archives: Academia Nomad

One of the things you need to master in PNG politics is to understand subtleties and slips up during conversations, figurative speeches, presents, or presentations. It’s called “Tok-Bokis.” Once, a former governor MP was given a traditional bilum (bag) full of corns, and a bounded green lizard by villagers during a ceremony he was invitedContinue reading “Thunder without Rain: PNG Politics”

Ranking PNG’s IDEAL Prime Ministers Who would you like to see become PNG’s Prime Minister? Below are politicians we think are PM material, ranking the top three (3) candidates. We also give reasons for why we think they are the best. Dr Alan Marat of Melanesian Liberal Party There’s probably only one true statesman inContinue reading “Ranking PNG’s top 3 Ideal Prime Ministers”

This article follows from the earlier one titled “Guns, Criminals, Warlords & PNG MPs”. This one is a critique of Papua New Guineans tendency to be impressed by MPs. After stepping down as Minister for National Planning, after video of him firing a military type high powered weapon went viral on social media, Paita apologizedContinue reading “PNG Stop worshiping MPs”

This title of the post will raise eyebrows (if not a storm), but I hope you read to the end to make sense of this post. I will confine this article to the seats in NCD. Following the 2021 Port Moresby Northwest by-election we conducted small survey among 120 UPNG students and working class residentsContinue reading “Female candidates don’t play the gender card”

Over the weekend, a gun allegedly belonging to a PNG politician was “accidentally” discharged in Port Moresby, killing an by-stander. The gun related death was confirmed by Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Wagambie. This follows a viral video of Finchfen MP and Minister Rainbow Paita firing a semi-automatic weapon towards the end of last year. AfterContinue reading “Guns, Criminals, Tribal warlords & PNG Politicians”