Ravuama Vunivalu

Ravuama Vunivalu (died 7 April 1964) was a Fijian civil servant and politician.

After excelling at school, Vunivalu won a scholarship from the Morris Hedstrom fund to study at the University of Auckland,[1] and was only the second Fijian to earn a Bachelor of the Arts after Lala Sukuna.

[2] He won a second scholarship in 1948 to attend a postgraduate course in economics at St John's College, Cambridge.

However, he resigned in 1954 in order to join the First Battalion of the Fiji Infantry Regiment to fight communist forces in Malaya.

[4] He returned to Fiji in 1956 and rejoined the civil service, becoming secretary of the Education Department.