The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday June 22nd, 2022 – World Rainforest Day
World Rainforest Day was first created in 2017 by the Rainforest Partnership. They work with Indigenous Peoples living in rainforest environments and launch projects to help restore and regenerate healthy rainforests with local communities. The day is about raising awareness of the importance of the rainforest and what it does for us. By coming together on the day, we can all take positive and hopeful action to protect the rainforest and preserve its lifespan as it has maintained our own lives for thousands of years.
Moneybags and Godfathers in Politics by Kola King
The political season is here and on overdrive. The past several weeks have been suffused with a surfeit of politics and the shenanigans of politicians as the political parties organized their conventions to elect their flag bearers. Tales coming out of the conventions of the two mainstream parties, that is, All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have been anything but elevating. The events have been depressing and uninspiring, to say the least. It has been mostly tales of moneybags hijacking the political process and delegates and aspirants being bought and sold like a loaf of bread. Every man seemed to have his own price regardless of the nomenclature that he goes by. The outcomes were largely compromised and short-circuited through bribery and corruption. Clearly, it was a political charade.
While some politicians were busy buying delegates others had perfected the art of buying aspirants. Never in the history of Nigerian politics has filthy lucre come to play such a central role as it did during the conventions of the two major parties.
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The Wild Boy of Aveyron #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“Before we learned to solve each other’s traps,
you reminded me of that poor wolf child,
urged on by hunger, digging for roots and bulbs in the fields”
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H. Rider Haggard: An Africa of his imagination by Rene Wadlow
H. Rider Haggard (22 June 1856-14 May 1925) whose birth anniversary we note was a British lawyer and writer whose best known novels are King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and She (1887) (1). At the early age of 19 he went to South Africa as a secretary to the Governor of Natal, now KaZulu-Natal. It was a crucial period in South African history.
On the edge of Natal, the Zulu tribes had been structured into a kingdom by their charismatic leader Shaka before he was assassinated in 1828. Ten years later, 1838, there was the decisive battle at Blood River between the Zulus and the largely Dutch Boars who, in the Great Treck, were moving north. In Netal, there was the start of indentured labor from India to work on the sugar plantations. There was also the start of British, largely Protestant, missionary activity. Many of the missionaries believed that Africans could best adapt Christianity as part of a larger cultural package which included literacy, European clothing and family patterns. The missionaries of the time were largely hostile to indigenous culture.
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Ghostin’ #38 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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