Roko Tui Dreketi information

The Roko Tui Dreketi is the title of the Paramount Chief of Fiji's Rewa Province and of the Burebasaga Confederacy, to which Rewa belongs. This title is...

the Lau Islands in Fiji Roko Tui, the title for the executive head of any one of Fiji’s 14 Provincial Councils Roko Tui Dreketi, the Paramount Chief of...

name Roko Tui is derived from what was traditionally used as a title (in some regions) denoting the Paramount Chief (like the title Roko Tui Dreketi), and...

Rokodurucoko) and has relationships with the Roko Tui Dreketi, Ratu Mai Verata, Roko Tui Namata, Roko Tui Veikau, Tui Vuya and other members of Fiji's House of Chiefs...

paramount chief of the Burebasaga Confederacy, she holds the title Roko Tui Dreketi. Kepa is originally from Lomanikoro, Rewa. She graduated from the University...

considerable. From her father George Tuisawau, she inherited the title of Roko Tui Dreketi, the traditional title of the rulers of the Burebasaga Confederacy...

Burebasaga Confederacy, one of three traditional chiefly hierarchies. The Roko Tui Dreketi, or Paramount Chief of Rewa, is the head Burebasaga. The last two holders...

Destruction of the Indies Lala Mara, the Roko Tui Dreketi of Rewa (reigned 1957–2004) Teimumu Kepa, the Roko Tui Dreketi of Rewa (reigned 2004–present) Nana...

father. Her mother, Ro Lady Lala Mara (1931–2004), held the title of Roko Tui Dreketi, or Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Confederacy. In 1979, during...

Lomanikoro, in Rewa Province, is the capital of this confederacy. The Roko Tui Dreketi is the Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Confederacy. Unlike the Kubuna...

an Adi (Fijian chief) and politician in her own right, who is the Roko Tui Dreketi (Paramount Chief) of the Burebasaga Confederacy and served as Minister...

was appointed Roko Tui of Rewa in 1936, succeeding Joni Mataitini, who had died two years previously. He also became Roko Tui Dreketi, succeeding his...

1992, but his wife, Ro Lady Lala Mara, an Adi in her own right as the Roko Tui Dreketi, or Paramount Chief, of Burebasaga (one of three hierarchies to which...

chief after Cakobau's successful counter-coup. The support of the Roko Tui Dreketi to Lasakau was crucial in the success of this coup in which Tanoa the...

Vendovi, after holding his brothers Cocanauto, Qaraniqio, and Tui Dreketi (Roko Tui Dreketi or King of Rewa Province) hostage. Vendovi was deemed responsible...

Cabinet Minister. Kaitani, Simione, Cabinet Minister. Kepa, Ro Teimumu, Roko Tui Dreketi and Cabinet Minister. Korovulavula, Manu, interim Cabinet Minister...

Confederacy, a hierarchy of chiefs from southern and western Fiji with Roko Tui Dreketi of Rewa as the paramount chief. It consists of Kadavu Island, Ono Island...

Naiqama Lalabalavu, the Tui Cakau (Paramount Chief of the Tovata Tribal Confederacy) and Ro Teimumu Kepa, the Roko Tui Dreketi (Paramount Chief of the...

chiefs; like her husband, Ro Lala was a chief in her own right, as the Roko Tui Dreketi (Paramount Chief) of Burebasaga and Rewa. The marriage was initially...

title is installed at the same time as the Tui Nayau. In the past when polygamy was the norm and the Tui Nayau had many wives, the chief or senior wife...

strategic purpose as he was planning to launch an assault on the Rewan Roko Tui Dreketi, the King of the delta villages. Gudrunavanua, who was of Samoan ancestry...

first Tui Nayau Rokocegu, Maculeku, Tui Dreketi Rokomatu, Adi Joana, Tui Sigatoka Sovasova, Ratu Jovesa, Tui Vitogo (1942–2005) Tupou, Ratu Taliai, Tui Nayau...

Sikivou, who hailed from Rewa Province, belonged to the tribe of the Roko Tui Dreketi's Guardians of the Spirit and the Wise Counsel, and as such was a member...

Press Ltd Sydney NSW,1835, 'High Chiefs of Fiji',p.43. Deryck Scarr, 'A Roko Tui for Lomaiviti: The Question of Legitimacy in the Fijian Administration...