Dear Editor,
In 1967 (I am a very old man) I was teaching Physics in a multi-ethnic, English medium school in Miri, in Borneo. Some of the students came from remote, recently become Christian, longhouses, travelling down-river maybe for two weeks to get to the school — no roads in the jungle in those days. One day, two of the Christian Union lads asked me a question.
“Sir”, they said, “Why are all our Christian songs translated from English hymns? Why can’t we have songs in our own cultural music?”
