Lagi-Maama

Lagi-Maama is a cultural academy and consultancy organisation based in Aotearoa New Zealand, set up by Toluma’anave Barbara Makuati-Afitu, of Samoan heritage, and Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai, of Tongan heritage. Toluma’anave has a background in stakeholder management and community engagement and Kolokesa in Art History, Social Anthropology and Museums and Heritage Studies. As an academy Lagi-Maama are involved in knowledge production by privileging Indigenous ways of knowing and seeing, and as a consultancy they implement by way of knowledge application through privileging Indigenous ways of doing!