Duffe

  Picture: 'The conversation' It seems, this is the era where all wise and humble elders of our community is ending. Those elders who have lived fully, without regrets, as they have at some point, achieved something greater than themselves. They came from subsistence farmers and hunters, from the remotest parts of the country but made it to the shores Port Moresby and even beyond. They were taught by expats, looked down on, frowned upon, discarded but have never resorted to violence but rather with humility. Their humble beginnings is what led us - the privileged and ungrateful generation - to where we are now. Their vision, was for a peace and unity - to put provide permanent and stable homes for their families, lessen the load of bilums that their mothers carried, food and medicine for their siblings and to lay down the bloody bows and arrows that their fathers carried.  Sadly, when it was our turn to carry the batten, we added more bilums, bags and bastards to mothers, gave