Education in the Cook Islands the 1900s. Fifty years later it reopened, in 1954, as a public school. The European School, began in the 1920s. In the 1930s, it was based in the Sunday School Hall, on the seaward side of the Avarua Cook Islands Christian Church at the main town in Rarotonga. It is not known at this stage as to whether it was a London Missionary Society school or privately run. However the school closed in the 1940s. In the late 1940s, the New Zealand administration opened the Avarua Side School, which was an adjunct school of the Avarua Maori School. In 1958,
Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island events are related in a book by a witness to the events, the Italian writer Franco Lelli, "Okiri: Una Storia Africana" (I.P.S.I.A. Terni, 2005). Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island The Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island () is a proscribed political organization in Equatorial Guinea. It has its roots in the pre-independence Unión Bubi, which sought independence from the mainland half of Spanish Guinea. It is supported by the Bubi ethnic group, which dominates Bioko island (home of the national capital). The Unión Bubi wanted the Spanish government to separate the Bubi-dominated Bioko and the Fang-dominated Río