Morgan Godfery (Te Pahipoto, Lalomanu) is a writer and trade unionist based in Wellington. He is the author of a collection of essays, Maui Street, published by Bridget Williams Books in early 2019. Morgan was born in 1991 in Whakatāne.
I told Nan that I’m a historical materialist.
We spent years waiting on a moment. That moment is here, but what can anyone show for it?
'In an ideal world the physical lives we build would speak to the past, but the truth is New Zealanders silence it, building their social and industrial histories literally on top of Māori.'
'Paint is peeling from the old truck workshop walls. Some days you can taste rust on the autumn wind, like swallowing iron and blood and pollen.'
On our best days, time’s passing felt like a melody, embracing every beat and delighting in every pause. But on our worst days time was a cacophony.
I can’t stop. Keep posting. Keep consuming content. My frontal lobe is its own memetic economy.
A proper reckoning with March 15 2019 demands that we take up a generations-long struggle to destroy all the exclusions that make up our society and produce the conditions we know as racism.
And don't think Māori voters aren't going to notice.
It's estimated that as many as half a million Papuans have been killed at the hands of Indonesian security forces in the past 50 years.
For Trump, Johnson, Morrison et al, the jokester act provides the perfect political cover, writes Morgan Godfery.
Morgan Godfery tries to make sense of the last decade for Māori in te ao hurihuri, the changing world. Here he looks at the highs, the lows and the TBCs...
If Labour MPs are serious about the Treaty and its promise of power-sharing – and if the members and delegates are keen to honour their party’s special history with Māori …
In this charged essay, Morgan Godfery takes stock of Treaty of Waitangi interpretations that pay lip service to values without honouring the core tenets of power.
Morgan Godfery looks back at the extraordinary power plays of the 2014 Kōhanga Reo National Trust Board scandal.
Labour's Māori MPs should count their lucky stars Te Ururoa Flavell is busy doing other things, writes māui street's Morgan Godfery.
"Everything we know about urban Māori is probably wrong", writes Morgan Godfery, in his review of a new study by Bradford Haami.
Morgan Godfery wonders exactly what the point is of New Zealand bowing to a monarch "of a rain-soaked island off the north-western coast of the European mainland".
The parties founded by Tariana Turia and Gareth Morgan both failed to make parliament at the last election, and now there's talk of a collaboration to turn that around.
Self-confessed fan Morgan Godfery talks Māori politics with Green Party co-leader, Marama Davidson.
The Māori caucus statement that it stands by Meka Whaitiri is simply tikanga in action, writes Morgan Godfery.
Almost one year ago to the day New Zealanders went to the polls, returning a record 29 Māori MPs. māui street editor Morgan Godfery picks his faves and rates them out of 10 for performance.
Māui Street editor Morgan Godfery with an exclusive look at the internal rift threatening the Māori Women's Welfare League.
Detachment is a luxury only some enjoy. For women, non-whites or any of the subjects of Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern’s rants, looking the other way is rarely possible
The 'minister for everything' on nation building and resolving Treaty settlements on 'marae time'
On some scores, the National Party is streets ahead on Māori representation. But, asks Morgan Godfery, is it progress?
Morgan Godfery was born to a teenage mother and gang father in Kawerau, New Zealand's poorest town. He recounts the experience in this essay from the newly published Journal of Urgent Writing, 2017.
