{"id":57485,"date":"2023-08-12T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/12\/between-two-worlds-life-of-png-tribe-leader-and-plantation-owner-honoured"},"modified":"2023-08-12T05:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:00:58","slug":"between-two-worlds-life-of-png-tribe-leader-and-plantation-owner-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57485","title":{"rendered":"Between two worlds: life of PNG tribe leader and plantation owner honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This article contains an image of a dead body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Leahy, owner of the famed Kilima coffee plantation, remembered in a week-long traditional ceremony in Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n<p>Deep inside the Nebilyer Valley in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea sits a famed coffee plantation, Kilima. It lies on the traditional land of the Ganiga people, steeped in colonial history, wealth and bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>The plantation was purchased from the Ganiga in the early 1970s by a then young Johannes \u201cJoe\u201d Leahy, an enterprise he spent years building up and then decades mourning its drawn-out destruction. Leahy was part of one of Papua New Guinea\u2019s leading family dynasties who made their fortune in the Highlands. Earlier this month Leahy died, aged 85, inside the house he lived in most of his life, surrounded by his beloved coffee trees, the \u201cgreen gold\u201d<em> <\/em>that his life \u2013 its highs and lows \u2013 was built on.<\/p>\n<p>Ganiga women burn off leaves in front of Joe Leahy\u2019s coffee plantation in preparation for his funeral<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/12\/between-two-worlds-life-of-png-tribe-leader-and-plantation-owner-honoured\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article contains an image of a dead bodyJoe Leahy, owner of the famed Kilima coffee plantation, remembered in a week-long traditional ceremony in Papua New GuineaDeep inside the Nebilyer Valley in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea sits a f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57486,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57485\/revisions\/57486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}