The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday May 19th, 2022 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Global Accessibility Awareness Day takes place every year on the third Thursday of May, and is all about getting people thinking and talking about making the web accessible for those with different disabilities. Technology is a wondrous thing. With a quick search, we can find all the information we need on anything we want. We can order dinner, research a paper, listen to a podcast. But if you happen to be blind, deaf, or impaired in some way then it’s not uncommon to find technology can be more of a burden than a boon.
Leah Sharibu – Symbol of faith and courage by Kola King
Leah Sharibu easily qualifies as one of the most famous girls in the world, not by choice but happenstance. In short, she’s a child of circumstance. She became famous as a result of her decision to hold on to her Christian faith. Thus her fame is not borne out of notoriety but passionate commitment to her faith. She chose faith over freedom despite an offer of freedom after her abduction by members of the Islamic West Africa Province, ISWAP terrorists group along with other school girls. By her unwavering faith, she has become both a national and international symbol of courage and resistance against the oppression of girls and women by the Islamist fundamentalist who traffics in terror and abduction of women and girls.
Leah is made in the same mould as the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan who came to the global limelight after she was shot by the Taliban in the Swat district of Pakistan for defying their calls for girls not to go to school. Daily Malala along with other girls would pick up their bags and walk to school in defiance of the Taliban order. Angered by this the Taliban shot her severally leaving her in a critical condition. She was later flown to the United Kingdom where she underwent several surgical operations before she finally recovered from her wounds. Now Malala has become a global icon and an activist for female education and freedom from oppression.
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Our march in time # poem by Bohdan Yuri
“Our march in time seems so sublime, yet,
we cannot savor life’s forward climb.
in the darkest corner of any forlorn sight
there lives a demon in the long lost night.”
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Bongbong Politics: Rehabilitating the Marcos Family by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Children should not pay for the sins of their parents. But in some cases, a healthy suspicion of the offspring is needed, notably when it comes to profiting off ill-gotten gains. It is certainly needed in the case of Filipino politician and presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, who stands to win on May 9.
Bongbong’s father was the notorious strongman Ferdinand Marcos, his mother, the avaricious, shoe-crazed Imelda. Elected president in 1965, Ferdinand Marcos indulged in murder, torture and looting. He thrived on the terrain of violent, corrupt oligarchic politics, characterised by a telling remark from the dejected Sergio Osmenã Jr, whom he defeated in 1969: “We were outgunned, outgooned, and outgold.”
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Always something; the family edition #033 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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