By Philip CassThe University of Auckland is to bestow a posthumous honorary doctorate on the late Tongan academic, author and sociologist Professor ‘Epeli Hau’ofa. Hau’ofa was described at the time of his death by The Sydney Morning Herald as an “inspirational writer, satirist and scholar . Tongan academic Dr Melanaite Taumoefolau said the university would honour Professor Hau’ofa at a graduation ceremony at the Fale Pasifika on Saturday, October 14. The ceremony will begin with a prayer, followed by speakers who are expected to include Tongan poet and academic Konai Thaman and Sione Tu’itahi. He taught at the University of Papua New Guinea and was a research fellow at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.