Sir Professor Pou Temara (Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe) was one of Aotearoa’s foremost Māori academics, authors and champions of te reo Māori, a long-serving lecturer at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi founded by Sir Hirini Moko Mead, a member of the Tekau mā Rua to the Kīngitanga, and a respected former member of the Waitangi Tribunal whose scholarship and leadership helped shape modern Māori language revitalisation.
Professor Wiremu Doherty, a fellow academic at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi and Sir Professor Pou Temara’s nephew, joins us to reflect on the life and legacy of a man whose influence extended from the classroom to the Kīngitanga and some of the nation’s most important institutions.
