User:Alipate Korovou

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Alipate Korovou is the youngest son of Uraia Kanaivalu and Maata Tupou.He has two sisters and two brothers.He hails from the "i tokatoka Natoga" who are the traditional spokesman of the Ramasi(Tuinasaqalau),the chiefly tittle of Nasaqalau.Natoga is one of the few "tokatoka" in the Nakabuta clan(mataqali). Nasaqalau is one of the eight villages on the island of Lakeba,in Fiji's Lau archipelago.And in Nasaqalau there are four mataqali(clan),namely Nautoqumu,Dreketi,Nakabuta and Loma.The people of Nasaqalau are believed to be the original inhabitants of Lakeba.They came from Waimaro through Matuku and onto Nasaqalau.Those with the Tupua surname that belongs to the Dere tribe of the Nautoqumu clan(mataqali) are the direct descendants. The Nasaqalau people have been weakened in powers through political takeover by weakening the political significance of the office of the "Tuinasaqalau" by replacing it with the tittle "Ramasi".This move was done by the then Tui Nayau Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba with the aid of the Colonial Government in order to control land ownership and resources.