Beth's return 'home' is both a spiritual and physical pilgrimage, because literally she shifts her demographic location, but more significantly, Beth's return 'home' is about constructively remembering, rearticulating and reconstructing 'home'. She recreates an emancipatory space that a predominant cultural politics both negates and repudiates. Beth's return 'home' is decolonization-a location for radical departure. Here she returns again to believing in mana-the unyielding thread that binds Polynesianism. Mana is love.
Love is the only revolution.
Fuifuilupe 'Alilia Niumeitolu, Editor in Chief, pays tribute to her grandmothers Ane Vaimoana Makakaufaki and Sauliloa Leafaa Niumeitolu, for their love has ignited a fire.