Samoa's former head of state says he was pressured into signing a controversial land law and he says it should be repealed.
Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi said he signed the Land Title Registration Act in 2008 before realising there should have been a referendum on it.
Tupua, who was speaking at a conference in New Zealand, said he was told the act would not affect customary land rights.
He said Samoans need to understand legislation that effects their customary rights and do everything to keep their land.
"There is a very insistent call to try and identify what it is that makes us the people that we are and once we find that, how to find the match with western theology, philosophy, politics because you have to live with others in the world, you have to relate to them in so many ways."
Tupua was a keynote speaker at the inaugural Pacific Law, Custom and Constitutionalism Conference in Auckland.
The first stage of the three part conference explored Samoan traditional leadership, customary land tenure and religion.