Pamulak festival ends with call for peace
At the end of the float parade, Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte addressed the audience thankful that the Kadayawan Festival is ending on a peaceful note, after several days of jitters and uncertainties.
Duterte ends Kadayawan 2013 rooting for peace talks
On Sunday's Pamulak sa Kadayawan Floral Parade, Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte pitched a call to the government to make serious strides in its peace talks with the communist group and Moro separatists.
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[Prints & Traces] Who is Datu Mangulayon?
In spotlighting the celebratory pitch and color of the Kadayawan Festival, let us give honor and deference to the unifying common tongue of all Lumads of Mindanao -- the Cebuano language as the Island’s lengua franca. And so, allow me to use this as medium in this special write-up about the legendary Datu Mangulayon, the greatest of all Lumads in this part of the Philippine Islands.
BOOK REVIEW: Birang – A children’s book on Lumad heroes
Birang ug uban pang sugilanon sa mga Bayaning Lumad sa Mindanao assumes the dual function of a school children’s book and a pastime for adult readers interested in humble beginnings, native birth, rituals and assaults. The color and realism of indigenous culture is interspersed in the universal concepts of freedom, valor, independence and patriotism—themes that are lost in the commercial pageantry and crass spectacle of Philippine indigenous festivals.