Vaisala is a small village on the northwest coast of Savai'i island in Samoa.

Va'ai Kolone, a matai, was a Member of Parliament of the Vaisala area who became a Prime Minister of Samoa twice in the 1980s.

Va'ai Kolone's father, a government clerk in the German administration of Samoa during colonialism, foresaw the importance of education and sent his own sons to boarding schools in the capital Apia.

[5] In 2009, the village council of chiefs banished their Member of Parliament for the Vaisigano No.

[6] In 2007, the same Member of Parliament had survived being shot by a gunman while attending a meeting in the village of Falealupo.