Oceania, Vol. 75, No. 4, Relations in Multicultural Fiji: Transformations, Positionings and Articulations (Sep. - Dec., 2005), pp. 325-341 (17 pages) This paper sets out a transformational history of ...

According to a Fiji official site, the drinking of yaqona or kava, is a common ceremonial and social custom. The yaqona ceremony has great significance in Fijian life but is now considered a social ...

A chief is to lead in every aspect, to help his people not just by words but by actually delivering what they have promised ...

Yaqona is considered an ingestible manifestation of the people, their land and cultural systems and consumed by many Fijians on a nightly basis. In a first of its kind study, Aporosa used cognitive ...

Yaqona is drunk by ethnic Fijians - known as iTaukei - and indo-Fijians, who make up around 37 per cent of Fiji's 827,900 people, as well as the other ethnicities that make up its populace.

"Alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and yaqona are the four main things that affect Fiji more than the hard drugs because these are gateway drugs these are drugs that are, you know," he said.