The movement was created after Nori, Aliki Nono'oohimae, Jonathan Fiifii'i, and a host of others from Malaita who worked together in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps during World War II.
One of the influences is said to have been the African-American soldiers whose humane treatment of the fellow workers was markedly different from the plantation owners.
During 1939 in Uogwari and Atobala he had been a prophet of the ancestor La'aka and channelled that Tulagi would be destroyed and the government would be thrown into the sea.
While the leaders were in jail the campaign of civil disobedience continued with villages refusing to pay taxes en masse.
In 1951 the British government held meetings with the imprisoned leadership and brokered a deal for self-government in the form of the Malaitan Congress.