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Mangiwa Sagiba is from Warruwi in the Northern Territory of Australia and is a speaker of her mother's language Maung and her father's languageKunwinjku. Sagiba was educated at the Methodist Mission Schoolon Goulburn Island, Northern Territory. There she learned to speak English as her third language. When she was twenty-one, she left Goulburn Island, Northern Territory,to train as a teacher in Darwin. While studying, she travelled around Australia and overseas to Fiji and Hawaii. She atteneded a university course in Brisbane learning how to read and write her own language. After her studies, she returned back to Goulburn Island and became the Principal of the school.

(Source: Some Aboriginal Women Pathfinders: their difficulties and their achievements, Women's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, [1980], pp 54-57).