The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday August 29th, 2023
The Armed Forces and the War on Terror by Kola King
Terrorism has bared its fangs once again with the killing of 36 soldiers in Niger State on August 13, bringing to the fore the devastating effect of the war on terrorism on both the military and the civilian populace. This is a stark reminder that the battle against terrorism is far from over despite the government’s repeated stance that the terrorists have been degraded and that the armed forces have won the war against terrorism.
Over the past twelve years, the armed forces have faced a toil of sweat, tears, and blood in the ongoing war against terrorists. Apart from the toll on the armed forces, terrorism has also resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians in the past ten years with the attendant consequence of millions being displaced from their ancestral homelands. There are an estimated 2 million people in Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camps in the Northeast and Northwest as well as the North Central states due to terrorism.
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Lay your wreath #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“Lay your wreath on the heads of the departed hours
towards yesterday,
We are filled with your glory, sorrow
The moonlight will break the loaf of the lake
Away from the window, a stone falls asleep in the mind.”
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Edward Carpenter and the Healing of Nations by Rene Wadlow
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) whose birth anniversary we note on 29 August, was an English writer, educator and pacifist, socialist reformer. Carpenter came from a middle class intellectual family and studied at Cambridge University. As with some of his fellow students who were interested in philosophy and ideas, he was ordained in the Church of England hoping that its outlook and theology could be widened from the inside. However, once inside, he realized that the broadening goal would take a long time. Thus by 1874 he left the church for a new field − university extension courses − a program of night school education for the “working classes”.
Just as he was about to become a Church of England cleric in 1869, he discovered the poems of Walt Whitman which became the inspiration for his own poems as well as for an opening to a cosmic consciousness that Whitman manifested.
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Maples & Oranges #09 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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