TASTY TUMAI

As "New Zealand's leading indigenous lifestyle magazine", TU MAI has upheld a commitment to enrich the minds of all New Zealanders through the sharing of stories and issues mostly related to NZ's indigenous culture, but inclusive of others.

TU MAI magazine is a quality, nationally distributed, glossy magazine that re-affirms as well as enlightens and is the ONLY MONTHLY indigenous magazine on the market. It's distributed through newsagents magazine retailers, supermarkets, garages, and maintains a regular spot in Air NZ's Koru lounges.

LATEST ISSUE September 2008 #100

Wahoo! Our (and your) 100th edition with a special die cut cover and collage of no less than 99 covers to prove it! If ever there was a picture and potential poster that captures a vibrant Maori community within a global society, 99 TU MAI covers say it all, and Yeah, we're proud to have reached this milestone.

As promised, our intrepid traveller, Nathan Gray was at the Beijing Olympics and provides readers with his insider perspective of China, a place he's visited more than a couple times, having walked the Great Wall of China as one of only five westerners known to have achieved this 'a few years and one book' ago. He also provides readers with insight into the magic of an eclipse from Jiayuguan in the Gobi desert.

Sticking with our intrigue of international coverage, our African/American, Wellington based writer Lewis Scott ensures TU MAI readers are right there with Barrack Obama as he makes his last few steps from the back door to the front door of America. Netherlands native, Ineka shares her Pakeha View of living in Aotearoa for the past 35 years.
TU MAI's music buff, Kuiarangi Paki interviews two hot kiwi musicians, namely Jayson Norris and Adi Dick who are making themselves very popular and simply the 'Shizz' in London town.
Back in Aotearoa and relating to a century or two ago, journalism student Glen Johnson of Christchurch tells a story of two Maniapoto Chiefs who brought the first ever press to New Zealand, having lived in Vienna, learnt German and trained as press operators in 1859.

And after a few Maori radicals making fashion statements as a means of getting attention while pushing their own political agendas in the early 1960s, followed by a plethora of fashion iconology loaded apparel since, a new Indigenous Maori Fashion Apparel Board (IMFAB) entity has been formed to encourage, nurture and support Maori Designers of high quality, high fashion with an Awards Competition event in Wellington planned for June next year, and a show for the winners at none other that Auckland�s AIR NZ fashion Week September 2009.

Watch this space, we're moving into a whole new gear for our next 100 editions. Stay with us, we will continue to pleasantly surprise and enlighten readers with our perspective of our world.

TU MAI is NZ's leading indigenous lifestyle magazine, published monthly,
not bi monthly, and gearing up to its 100th edition in September 08.