Galumalemana Alfred Hunkin is a key player and a pioneer in the teaching and promotion of gagana Samoa in New Zealand.  He is a published writer, broadcaster, researcher, cross-cultural advisor / consultant and academic who established Samoan Studies at Wellington’s Victoria University in the 1980s and was also the inaugural director of the Wellington Multicultural Educational Resource Centre from 1980 -1989. 

Galumalemana was awarded The New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal for services to education in New Zealand and the MNZM (Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit) award in 2001 for his services to the Samoan community in its language maintenance efforts in particular. He retired in 2013 from Victoria University Wellington after nearly 30 years of service at the university and is now based back in Samoa.

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