Photographs by Rudy Spemann .
If you are ever walking by the graveyard at Tufuiopa , in Apia , and decide to stroll among the old headstones keep an eye out for those of Etesa Malietoa Axmann and ‘ the man who came back ’, Feodor Axmann . Etesa ’ s memorial stands erect but Feodor ’ s headstone has fallen down and nature is trying to reclaim it .
The graves are side by side , a reminder of the ties that bind the Samoans and the Germans . So ’ o le fau ma le fau .
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