Canadian lawmaker addresses legislature in Indigenous language!
Photo credit: the Guardian Sol Mamakwa a First Nations lawmaker in Ontario has addressed the province’s legislature in Anishininiimowin, an Indigenous language. The Guardian reports that it as being historic because it repudiates a centuries-long colonial “war” on Indigenous languages. Mamakwa who belongs to the New Democratic party is from the community of Kingfisher Lake…
Pledges for Syria are shrinking!
Photo credit: the national As the latest round of pledges for Syria is going South, main donors are saying that the conditions for a safe return are not yet met despite pressure from host countries. The National reports that at the annual conference for Syria in Brussels, the latest round of pledges represented a 22…
Refugee becomes bank executive!
Photo credit: inform Lezan Tahir, a Kurdish refugee, has become a vice-president for customer service at Gate City Bank in downtown Fargo in the United States. INFORUM reports that Tahir’s family survived Saddam Hussein’s brutal mustard gas attack against Kurdish people in 1988. He was born in a refugee camp before he and his family made…
My Take – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Buffer With dedicationYou get inspirationWhich results in aspirationTo your destination! Times may be toughRoads could be roughBut it’s saidAnd emphasizedWhen roads are roughIt’s only for the tough! When you try your bestYou could then restBeing assuredAll is sure! Don’t do crimeOr be coated in slime-infested roadsWhich might be loads! E’en to childrenYet to…
Uhuru? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Cable NIGERIA : Not Yet Uhuru It is another may 29. Nigerians are expected to be celebrating another so-called democracy day! However, my belief is that one can measure a state by the quality of life of the poorest citizen in that state. In other words, does the poor have the ability…
Secular? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Punch Nigeria is said to be a secular state. That’s theoretical! However, in practice, the Nigerian state is religious. Or how do we explain the fact that apart from having churches and mosques, government involves itself with the staffing of these bastions of religiousity. In the past, government was sponsoring religious pilgrimages….