Ratu Manoa Rasigatale (born 1946 or 1947) [1] is a Fijian historian, journalist, musician, television personality and former politician. He is a former member of the Senate of Fiji and represented Rewa.
Rasigatale is from the village of Nabuli in Rewa Province. [2]
In the 1970s he worked as a journalist for Fijian newspaper Nai Lalakai [2] and Pacific Islands Monthly [3] and was director and manager of the Fiji Dance Theatre cultural troupe. [2] [4] [5] In 1985 he established the Fijian Cultural Center at the Pacific Harbour International Resort near Suva, [6] where he planned to build a replica Drua. [7] In 1993 and 1994 his dance troupe performed at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii as part of a cultural exchange. In 1994, it performed in Las Vegas. [8]
In 2009 he hosted We Ni Yava Misiki. [9] In 2016 he hosted documentary drama sries Mai Muri Mai. [10]
In October 2020 he was awarded the Fiji 50th Anniversary commemorative medal. [1] [11]