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Information trouvée : Sir Michael Thomas Somare GCL GCMG CH CF SSI KSG PC (9 April 1936 – 26 February 2021)
was a Papua New Guinean politician. He was a pivotal politician in the coming of independence.
His political career spanned from 1968 until his retirement in 2017. He has been the
longest-serving prime minister (17 years). Besides that, he was minister of foreign
affairs, leader of the opposition and governor of East Sepik. Somare's earliest education
was in a Japanese-run primary school at Karau during World War II where he learned
to read, write and count in Japanese. From 1946 Somare attended Boram Primary School,
then Dregerhafen Education Centre and Sogeri High School, graduating with a Leaving
Certificate issued on behalf of the Australian state of Victoria in 1957. This was
a teaching qualification at the time, and he then taught at several primary and secondary
schools, returning to Sogeri High School for further training from 1962 to 1963.