The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday January 19th, 2022 – National Popcorn Day
The Crisis Over Cattle – FG and States lock horns over open grazing by herders by Kola King
There’s noticeable beef in the land over cattle. This culinary delight which is the preferred choice of master chefs and aficionados has become the source of anger and anxiety in many parts of the nation. At the moment, Fulani herders who graze cattle are in the crosshairs of the generality of the population because of the quest to provide fodder for their animals. In short, the nation is in the throes of a cattle crisis.
In fact, all through the past year the cattle crisis dominated the airwaves as well as several acres of space in newspapers. Social media also captured the grief and anger caused by conflicts arising from clashes between farmers and herders.
In general, Nigerians get most of their beef from cattle herders who are mostly Fulani from the north. The herders graze their cattle freely across the country, traversing the landscape from north to south, especially during the dry season. It is this free movement of herders and their cattle that has set the nation on edge. Because of this, communities have been torn apart, villages have been burnt to the ground and hundreds of people killed in several clashes between herders and farming communities.
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Contains All #poem #haiku by Saloni Kaul
“Think hard in the box
That contains all world’s puzzles!
That’s the paradox.”
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Alexandre Marc : Con-federalism, Cultural Renewal and Trans-frontier Cooperation by Rene Wadlow
Alexandre Marc (19 January 1904 – 22 February 2000) was born as Alexandre Markovitch Lipiansky in Odessa, Russia in 1904. He later simplified his name by dropping Lipiansky (which his sons have reclaimed) and modifying his father’s first name to Marc which he used as a family name. His father was a Jewish banker and a non-communist socialist. Alexandre was a precocious activist. He was influenced by his early reading of F. Nietzsche, especially Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He started a non-conformist student journal while still in secondary school during the Russian Revolution, asking for greater democracy and opposed to Marxist thought. This led to death threats made against him by the Communist authorities.
The family left Russia in 1919 for France but not before Alexandre had seen some of the fighting and disorder of the Russian civil war. These impressions left a deep mark, and he was never tempted by the Russian communist effort as were other intellectuals in France who had not seen events close up. During part of the 1920s, Marc was in Germany studying philosophy where intellectual and philosophical debates were intense after the German defeat in the First World War and the great difficulties of the Weimar Republic. He saw the forerunners of the Nazi movement. Marc was always one to try to join thought and action, and he had gone back to Germany in 1932 to try to organize anti-Nazi German youth, but ideological divisions in Germany were strong. The Nazi were already too well organized and came to power the next year. Marc, having seen the destructive power of Nazi thought, was also never tempted by Right Wing or Fascist thought.
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Ghostin’ #026 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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