On the 7th November 1918, the NZ military administration controlling Samoa, led by Col. Robert Logan, made the deadly decision to knowingly allow a ship called 'The Talune" carrying Spanish Influenza to dock in Apia Harbour. The results were catastrophic, wiping out over a quarter of Samoas population and decimating entire families and villages in what is one of the worst cultural catastrophes in history.

In the late 19th Century Chinese immigrants first arrived in Samoa. They learned the fa'asamoa, married Samoans, had Samoan families and eventually died in Samoa as Samoans.

In this #TalesOfTime Coco Doco Oscar Kightley is in Samoa to explore his Solomon Island Ancestry. Melanesian men were brought to Samoa as slave labour in the early 1900's by the German colonisers. 'Tama Uli' looks at the current political situation where the government is trying to force them off their land.