Samoa's first woman prime minister has been supported throughout her career by a group of powerful female friends.
There are fewer women in politics in the Pacific Islands than in any other part of the world, according to UN Women. But this year Samoa elected a woman as its head of government - only the second Pacific Island nation to do so - thanks in part to a network of women friends who supported her every step of the way.
"As she walked in we started playing the Helen Reddy song, I Am Woman - Hear Me Roar," recalls Alise. "And we said, 'It's time for you to take charge now.'"Within nine months she would win enough seats to be declared - eventually - the only woman head of government in the Pacific Islands. , and the region has seen extreme weather events increasing in frequency as a result of climate change.
In 1975, when she was 18, her father died and Naomi Mata'afa was granted his chiefly title, Fiame. She was now the leader of her clan, or"I remember asking her how she felt then, with this sudden weight of responsibility now thrust on her," says Alise Stunnenberg. "Fiame replied: 'It's always been in me.'"
Often these were to do with "their journey as women, which included the cultural, the biological, the political and economical", Fiame says.Fiame and her friends try to see each other a few times a month.
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