Dressed in bright colours, waving flags and swelling with pride, a sea of Ni-Vanuatu people have gathered to celebrate 40 years of independence, observed with a nine-day public holiday.
For four-and-a-half hours people marched, singing and dancing, from the Tagabe area to Independence Park, marking the beginning of the holiday period. An early member of Vanuatu's oldest political party, the New Hebrides National party — later known as the Vanua'aku Pati, which was formed on a platform of independence — Mr Regenvanu was always "confident" Vanuatu would gain its independence."We have always been independent people before white people came to Vanuatu. We were people who were living in our islands independently, depending on subsistence agriculture, and our way of life, culture and customs," he said.
Watch out Vanuatu, China ready with a cash incentive.
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