Atakohu Middleton (Photo: Trinity Thompson-Browne, Māori Literature Trust Te Waka Taki Kōrero) E-Tangata arts and books editor Atakohu Middleton, an adult learner of te reo, has just published Waka Aroha,…
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Atakohu Middleton (Photo: Simon Smith) What’s in a Māori name? Often, a great deal. In the past, tūpuna had a single name, but they often took new names to mark…
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Atakohu Middleton and her sister Wendy, meeting for the first time in February 2025 at the domestic terminal at Auckland airport. (Photo supplied) Atakohu Middleton discovered a sister this year…
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Atakoha Middleton explores how Māori journalists balance tikanga and manaakitanga with asking hard questions. (Photo: Simon Smith AUT) What makes Māori journalism distinctive? Atakohu Middleton, an award-winning journalist, has explored…
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Dr Atakohu Middleton (Photo by Simon Smith). How does tikanga affect the work of Māori journalists? Atakohu Middleton, a former journalist turned academic, on her PhD research into reo-Māori journalism….
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…personal, social and environmental factors that help adult learners become fluent speakers. Atakohu Middleton, who was 36 when she finally started applying herself to te reo, asked Matiu about his…
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…Māori broadcasters, journalists, and commentators for their view on what’s working and what’s not. Atakohu Middleton, a former print reporter who’s writing her PhD thesis on reo-Māori journalism, joins the…
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…efforts to learn te reo Māori. Atakohu Middleton gets advice from Dr Awanui Te Huia, an expert in the psychological factors that can affect Māori learning te reo in later…
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…when he first visited Takrouna last year, Haane is still remembered and revered there by one family, 83 years later. Here’s Atakohu Middleton with the story. In March last…
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…April, Veisinia talked to Atakohu Middleton about what it means to follow her dream. You have to admire young people who have the confidence to rock up to a…
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…awareness and galvanise support for victims. Here’s Tuki and Cleo having a kōrero with Atakohu Middleton. Solomon Islander Maeverlyn Pitanoe will never forget May 9, 2021. It was a…
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…up for discussion. She introduces Atakohu Middleton to the Too-Hard Basket. Dr Heather Came, a public health academic and antiracism educator, takes a small but important prop to her…
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…has reimagined the celebrated British play Constellations for Aotearoa, setting it among the stars of Matariki. Atakohu Middleton reports. It’s dawn on top of a chilly Maungawhau (Mt Eden,…
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…Here she tells Atakohu Middleton about her new book, He Aroha Te Aroha, which helps whānau Māori to have early conversations about end-of-life wishes. Have you thought about whether you’ll…
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In this complete story from Atakohu Middleton’s collection Waka Aroha: He kohinga pakipoto, loving mum Manaia supervises her six-year-old daughter, Kataraina, as she brushes her teeth before bed. This domestic…
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…Costelloe, the principal of Sacred Heart Girls’ College in New Plymouth, tells Atakohu Middleton why she fell in love with the language. Barb, you weren’t born in New Zealand. Tell…
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…from Nepal. (Photo: Julie Zhu, Matariki Matarau) Te reo Māori is a language for all New Zealanders. Here, Rituraj Sapkota, who was born in Nepal, talks to Atakohu Middleton about…
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…it was closed, it’s now a charter school, and officially named Tīpene, as it was always known by generations of former students. Filmmaker Kimiora Kaire-Melbourne talked to Atakohu Middleton about…
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…Atakohu Middleton why, despite the frustrations the book records, she remains hopeful. Way back in 1995, Margaret Mutu inherited a job from the late Ranginui Walker, a colleague at…
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…and their six-year-old son, Dean, who is autistic and considered non-verbal. Here they are talking to Atakohu Middleton about how music has helped their only child to connect. Dean Fainu,…
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…Auckland Theatre Company’s Mt Eden base to kōrero with Atakohu Middleton. Beer. Methylated spirits. Anything with alcohol. Vela Manusaute’s father, Saute, drank them all. And when Saute had a…
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…as a GP, “Kahurangi Rata Clare” — the esteemed Dr Clare — has written a memoir, A Place to Stand: A country doctor’s life. She spoke with Atakohu Middleton about…
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…weeks. Here they are having a kōrero with Atakohu Middleton. Connie, a teenage wahine Māori, is busking outside a block of shops, singing with her guitar, when shopkeepers complain…
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…on July 11. (Photo: Hagen Hopkins) Teenage opera singer Samuel Mataele took the top prize in the Kiri Te Kanawa Song Quest last month. He tells Atakohu Middleton that life…
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…to Kerikeri next weekend. Such concerts are rare, and this weekend’s will be particularly poignant, as Atakohu Middleton reports. A concert that fuses opera masterpieces in their original languages…
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…of the 20th century. She talks to Atakohu Middleton. Lindah Lepou was a teenager when she read about “human zoos”, and was fascinated and repelled at the same time….
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…Canada and has been touring his solo comedy show, Doing Great. He talks to Atakohu Middleton. If you ask Bailey Poching what he wants to feel when he’s on…
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…be a very long evening. Extracted from The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau, Spoor Books, $38. See also Atakohu Middleton’s interview with Terri Te Tau here….
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…She talks to Atakohu Middleton. Terri Te Tau, 45, is best known as one of the four Māori women in the Mataaho Collective, which has been producing large-scale woven…
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…Now a noted reo teacher, translator, and composer, he’s landed an award from the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Aotearoa’s top academic body. Here he is talking to Atakohu Middleton, one…
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