Ministry of iTaukei Affairs

These documentaries were produced by the iTaukei Institute of Language & Culture (TILC) in Fiji’s Ministry of iTaukei Affairs. These documentaries are part of a continuing effort in the ratifying, documenting and promotion of the iTaukei intangible cultural heritage in conjunction with UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Fiji is a multicultural country but its indigenous people are known as the iTaukei (ee-TAH-oo-kay)
In today’s global and digital world, there is an imminent danger that unique characteristics of the iTaukei culture – characteristics that have been experienced, distilled and transmitted orally over 3 millennia, to be in danger of being lost or forgotten. It is on this the TILC produces these as a memory in today’s digital world for the sake of the current and future iTaukei generations.