Broadcast on 88.9fm Sydney

Voice of Melanesia

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MELANESIA : Covers Papua New Guinea,Autonomous Bougainville,Solomon Islands,Vanuatu,New Caledonia,Fiji,The Australian South Sea Islanders,Torres Strait,Timor,Sumba,Maluku,West Papua + Over 1500 indigenous Languages in Western Pacific.

Intro: My name is Philippe, 48 years old! and have been in Australia since 1985.My Family come from Shefa Province,Vanuatu, Loyalty Islands,New Caledonia & Malaita,Solomon Islands..3 Melanesian Island Nations/Areas in Western Pacific.I speak Namakur (Makuraan),Nakanamang,Bislama,French and some English…I dream & think in Makuraan! All these other languages for me are only a tool to communicate with the inside and outside of Melanesia.Funny! My key to the world is through my Botanical,linquistic and hospitality skill.Always on THE FRONT LINE ! My Hobbie: Multi-Media and I want to retire oneday soon before Im too old!! to travel Melanesia again! and record,document,capture some of our wonderful Tribal SINGSINGS.

 In my Mothers side of the Family New Caledonia Represent! we have THE UNITED NATIONS under one roof! The Melting Pot of The Pacific Coastal and Islands, you will find in our house! there are lots of mix marriages my Mums Family with Pacific Islanders,African,Caucasians,Indians,Asians,Mix Race etc many colours,ONE BLOOD! 4 generations! For me its a BLESSING to have one side of the Family open minded,The Vanuatu and Solomon Islands side of the family are more conservative and traditional may be un jour! One day!.But all good!

1) Voice of Melanesia Radio Show now operating for 8 year ago on 88.9fm,Sydney a community station.The whole idea is to give my Region a voice on the airwaves of Australia across to Western Pacific a link.As we have over 1500 indigenous languages I thought I will have NEWS in the common languages but the whole program plays a good % of music in our many wonderful languages and NO they are not Dialects!! Monday nights 10pm to Midnight.Streaming Global-www.skidrow.org.Tune in sometimes if you have time.

2) Smol Melanesian Na Pasifik Nius Digest # 000 now operating over 4 years with 5000+ readers.I email the news out once a day,5 days a week.For FREE: email me to subscribe if you want- voiceofmelanesia@gmail.com or you can come to VOM site and get your latest news at times.

3) VOM site: This is base where every Melanesian People ( diaspora’s,students etc) and Friends from around the globe can drop in every now and then and check to see whats happening in the Region.Listen to some music….put a smile on your face!…VOM bring Western Pacific to a Computer near you,bedroom,study,lounge,laptop,mobile phone,internet cafe etc.ADD VOM AS YOUR FAVOURITE.

Enjoy! ……..Regards-Phil

Melanesia

Melanesia is one of three major cultural areas in the Pacific Ocean.

Geographic definition of Melanesia, surrounded by a pink line.

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia. The name Melanesia (from Greek: μέλας black; νῆσος,islands) was first used by Jules Dumont d’Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands distinct from Polynesiaand Micronesia.

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Art of Oceania properly encompasses the artistic traditions of the people indigenous to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. The ancestors of the people of these islands came from Southeast Asia by two different byyou groups at separate times. The first, an Australoid people and the ancestors of modern day Melanesians and Australian Aboriginals, came to New Guinea and Australia about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. The Melanesians expanded as far as the northern Solomon Islands by 38,000 BC. The second wave, fromSoutheast Asia, would not come for another 30,000 years.

(Phil’s Note:Oral History tales by Melanesian Elders that Our People come from Africa to India to Asia then across & settled in Western Pacific ( Melanesia has 35 shades of blackness from Blue Black in the Solomon Islands and Autonomous Bougainville Islands to the Fairest due to Coastal and little island mixing with the traders westerners/easterners etc..Melanesian Highlanders dont mix ! ….as for the Australian Aborigines they must have travelled Africa to India and across to Australia (they are black,broad nose but skinny legs and long straight hair!)…For the Polynesians and Micronesians- Direct Route Asia/Pacific..Slender Asian Eyes!

By 1500 BC the Lapita culture, descendants of the second wave, would begin to expand and spread into the more remote islands. At around the same time, art began to appear in New Guinea, including the earliest examples of sculpture in Oceania. The period from 1000 BC on,  By 1500, the first European explorers begin to reach Oceania. ^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_art}

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