BANABA - Kiribati@tm..

[@angitaikaintoka4976]

😊😊😊😊 remembering childhood awww...e kan banaba ohhh im missing u😍😍😍

[@santospaul8103]

Out of the 58 Billion that Australia received they couldn’t at least give back to Nauru & Banaba for helping their economy grow

[@j21lanyon]

Beautiful song outlining the Mining exploitation done on Banaba...well at least it has benefited the rest of kiribati...

[@tmkirimac]

j21lanyon that's right, definitely mining exploitation of Banaba! ....enjoy the song :)

[@lilianteirei5337]

Benefited the whole of kirubati but not banaba as a whole which us so sad 😢😢😢

[@bravotabb3534]

@@lilianteirei5337 If you study the history of Banaba you would realize that it was an island of bad misfortune due to its geographical location. Constant drought, rugged terrain with no easy access to well water, lack of lagoon for easy fishing with small canoes unlike other islands of Kiribati, and other drawbacks. In the olden days, people of Kiribati called it Nabanaba. Now during the phosphate mining, the people of Kiribati from Makin to Arorae, along with the Ellice islanders, really benefitted from this mining. To them, getting recruited to work the phosphate mines on Banaba or Ocean island as called by the British was like going to a paradise island where electricity is free and fresh water was never in short supply as they constantly get supplied from Australiaor New Zealand and brought in by the ships that arrived to pick up the processed phosphate. The Banaban people were the real victims at that time as they were forcefully moved to Rambi in Fiji and were never part of the recruitments for the phosphate mining. This was a deliberate attempt by the British colonialists who stood to gain the most in millions of dollars during decades of mining. I am from Kiribati and I believed the people of Rambi should stand tall and proud for having contributed to the wellbeing of countless other people in this world. I pray that God will provide a prosperous future for their current and future generations.

[@TemakeTikawa-i9z]

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