The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday September 10th, 2022
Zombifying legacies and a King by Thanos Kalamidas
The Queen is dead, long live king Charles III, Liz Truss-es Britannia and Margaret Thatcher is long gone. This somehow summarizes the soul of events the last few days in Britain.
Doesn’t matter what you believe, a pro-monarchy or a raving anti-monarch, Elisabeth II was a major figure in the history of the 20th century for good or bad and her passing is like the end of a book -not just a chapter, in global history. And she will be remembered as that.
However, there is a lot to remember from her, from her stand during the difficult times for Britain after WWII and her constant unifying spirit to her vicious opposition to Cyprus independence, her opposition to enforce any kind of restrictions against the South African apartheid, witnessing India’s and Pakistan’s independence to her lack of empathy on Diana’s death. Yet, there she was. She was there with Winston Churchill, with Margaret Thatcher, with Tony Blair, even with Boris Johnson. She was there when UK entered the European Economic Community and she was there when Theresa May sighed Brexit.
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Who hates Sierra Leone? #poem by Dr Saidu Bangura
“When people
in a democracy
are hungry
and angry about
how they are
governed
and lament
how difficult
life has become
how hard life is
and leaders
become silent “
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #019 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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