A PHENOMENON that delights me as much as bamboo splinters under the fingernails is the proliferation of the Convenient Fijian.
One who we are all familiar with is the current Fiji Prime Minister, who until the 2000 coup, was known as Frank. As the fever of nationalism spread, Frank became Voreqe and at one stage Ratu Voreqe.
He is in illustrious company: There is that one-time propagator of pyramid schemes, George Speight, who so overcome by the fervour at Veiuto, morphed into Ilikimi Naitini.
There is also this blogger, who took to wearing a sulu the day after Suva rioted and burned.
Tags: 2000, bainimarama, coup, Fiji, speight
