Ranginui Walker

Ranginui Walker

DCNZM
BornRanginui Joseph Isaac Walker
(1932-03-01)1 March 1932
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Died29 February 2016(2016-02-29) (aged 83)
Auckland, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Notable awardsPrime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement
Scientific career
ThesisThe social adjustment of the Maori to urban living in Auckland (1970)

Ranginui Joseph Isaac Walker DCNZM (1 March 1932 – 29 February 2016) was an influential New Zealand academic, author, and activist of Māori and Lebanese descent.[1] "I think he was the Māori commentator for a very long period," his biographer, Paul Spoonley, has said.[2] Walker wrote about the struggles for Māori land rights and cultural identity and, says Spoonley, "confront[ed] Pakeha about their lack of understanding and prejudices to Māori" in his books and regular columns for the weekly New Zealand Listener and the monthly Metro magazine throughout the 1980s and 1990s.[2][3]

  1. ^ Wanhalla, Angela (5 May 2011). "Ranginui Walker's whānau". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Stuff 29/2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Malcolm, Mulholland; Robertson, Catherine; Jones, Lloyd; Tusitala Marsh, Selina; Molisa, Pala; Thomas, Paul; Sandys, Elspeth; Johnson, Stephanie; Morris, Paula (2021). Nine Lives. New Zealand: Upstart Press. pp. 118–134. ISBN 9781990003370.