LEVUKA, Fiji -- Thirteen-year-old Una Turaganicolo's strong, clear voice filled her family's timber-frame home, rising to the corrugated roof visible through the rafters. Her sister, Rose, hummed along as she battled with her math homework by the light of a flickering candle.
Next to the open windows, which looked out over moonlit Levuka town 300 meters below, her father, Niumaia, strummed an old guitar -- two strings missing. As he harmonized with his daughter, his face scrunched up like an impassioned rock star's -- two front teeth missing.
"Fiji united with all the world," they sang, a broad smile breaking out on Una's face. "Maybe it hasn't always been that way," said her mother, Va, in reference to the 1987 military coup that brought the Republic of Fiji worldwide condemnation, dismissal from the British Commonwealth, suspension of aid by Australia and New Zealand and closure of the Indian High Commission in the Fijian capital, Suva.