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Unaisi Ratubalavu
2 February, 2021, 6:45 pm
Semisi Maya at work on a painting, using the inside of
his wrists, the hair on his arms and knuckles.
Picture: FILE
On January 1, 1982, The Fiji Times featured a story on Semisi Maya, who was a leper and one of Fiji’s greatest painters. The article said Maya’s life was in ruins.
For 18 years he had suffered the ravages of two terrible diseases – leprosy and polio. And for 18 years, the country fought to stem this disease on Makogai, Fiji’s leper island.
In 1982, 38-year-old Maya had finally left Makogai for good.
The leprosy – the tuberculoid type that ate into a person’s nervous system – had burned itself out.