Samoan independence
The Struggle
In Samoa the people had realized that their country
didn’t belong to them anymore because countries
had been competing to see who can take control
over another country, but nobody from Samoa
had been invited they didn’t even know that
there was a meeting going on, Later on the berlin
deal decided to divide Samoa and split them up,
so Germany took the West Side of Samoa which
became a German Colony and the United States
took over the East Side of Samoa and now it is
called ‘American Samoa’
The Chiefs
One of the leaders of Samoa had defeated
Germany once but Mata’afa (The chief)
decided to put all the weapons down and
hoped that the Europeans would allow the
people of Samoa to govern themselves,
which was happening in Tonga. The colonial
government didn’t want to leave people
alone but instead they made new laws
and Samoa only had a little amount of
control, so the people of Samoa wanted
their homeland back.
Influenza Epidemic
In 1918, 8500 people from Samoa
had died because of this flu spreading
around the globe and killing people,
this flu is similar to the Coronavirus
(or COVID - 19). Millions of people
had died from this flu and doctors
tried to help them and Quarantine is avoiding deaths
, but in New Zealand quarantine was not managed.
In the western Samoa there were people
who suffered one of the highest deaths in
the whole entire world, Samoa felt that the
New Zealand government let the Influenza in
and only helped out a little bit.
