The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday August 3rd, 2022
Ovi magazine welcomes Dr Saidu Bangura to the creative fellowship of the Ovi team. Dr Saidu Bangura is a social and political commentator with poetic quests and shares our stand for freedom of speech, democracy and equality.
When politics becomes a disservice and a pain on the necks of people: a lament! by Dr Saidu Bangura
I shed a tear for Sierra Leone this morning.
If it is not intimidation and detention of political opponents, it is police brutality against the people and rival politicians of the governing party. If it is not electoral hurly-burly, it is inciting the youths to kill other youths for the political gains of politicians. Rather than serving our people, our politicians are dividing us for their selfish gains. So it was yesterday, so it is today. Welcome to the political ecology of Sierra Leone.
I shed a tear for Sierra Leone this morning.
When ethnolinguistic otherness and political party kerfuffle are disseminated in society as the norms of orderliness, and when these consequently feed into the fabric of a people whose modus operandi used to be “one for all, all for one”, all we see around us is social and cultural degradation that lead to destruction. Let us make our country a peaceful paradise!
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Melancholy #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“Slowly you come on, slowly you press down.
Seeping and soothing, but darkening my dreams.
Soon my futures are all dun.”
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Fika bonding! #39 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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