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Grace Mera Molisa

Died in 2002

Grace Mera Molisa was born on 17 February 1946 on the island of Aoba. A schoolteacher, she obtained a degree from the University of the South Pacific, the first woman in her country to graduate from a university. She advised the Chief Minister of the New Hebrides, then Vanuatu's first head of government, Walter Lini, whose spokeswoman she was from 1987 to 1991. She helped to create the national arts festival, campaigned for the place of women in politics and died in Port-Vila on 4 January 2002.

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