Basil Shaw BA, BEd, DPE (Qld), MA (Ed., London), PhD, completed his biography of Michael Somare as a PhD dissertation in the Division of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland, in 1991.

See also Basil Shaw, “Yukio Shibata and Michael Somare: Lives in Contrast”, in Geoffrey M. White, Remembering the Pacific War, Honolulu, University of Hawaii, Center for Pacific Studies, Occasional Paper 36, 1991; pp.223-237.

Research papers gathered for Basil Shaw’s biography of Sir Michael Somare, Somare: A Political Biography of the First Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, 1991 (PMB 1229), including material on Captain Yukio Shibata, the Japanese teacher who taught Michael Somare at school, and a chronological series of research files.
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