Lāuga: Understanding Samoan oratory, by Sadat Muaiava. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2022. 336 pages.
 THIS beautifully produced book is a guide to the art of public speaking that embedded in practices chiefly speeches (lāuga fa’amatai) or sermons fa’alelotu). It intended those who may be asked speak at significant occasions, especially within diaspora have lost some their familiarity with th...