Mata’afa Keni Lesa started his career at the Samoa Observer newspaper in 1999 as a junior reporter where he worked as a political correspondent, sports editor, news editor and then he was promoted as the Editor in May 2006. 

Mata'afa was in 2017 named the recipient of the prestigious Boerma Award by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (F.A.O.). He was the first Pacific islander to win the award. 

After a career spanning more than twenty years with the Samoa Observer Mata’afa Keni Lesa stepped down as Editor.

We are privileged to have Mata’afa Keni Lesa join us on the line all the way from Samoa to talk about his career and issues in Samoa.