Aiono Nonumalo Sofara


Aiono Nonumalo Sofara is a chief and former Member of Parliament in Samoa. He was a member of the Human Rights Protection Party and later the Samoan National Development Party.
He became Speaker of the National Legislature when the Human Rights Protection Party first came to power. He was the Speaker from 1982 to 1987. Nonumalo then went on to join the SNDP. He was also a strong opponent of the introduction of universal suffrage, and actively sought to have the act repealed.
Aiono was married to the late Eni Sofara, sister of two other Samoan parliamentarians, Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa and Matatumua Maimoana.