By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
If I may correctly recite the Sibika at Kultura lessons during my elementary years, the three stars in the flag represent the three major islands and the colors blue and red represent peace over war. It affirms our belief, our conviction, our choice, that peace should reign in our land.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Democracy, Freedom, National Independence, National Sovereignty are but hollow words and phrases that insult our intelligence and rational sensibility and stretch the elastic limits of our forbearance and integrity as a people.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
It is good and salutary that there are cultural guardians among us. We have people who have built fortifications to protect our language from being ripped off and blown away, demolished and trampled upon by ruffians and scoundrels among us.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
And soon the camote dreamers became the ANAKPAWIS, an association of the toiling masses that dream of bettering their lives and the lives of their children and the children of generations of toiling people yet to come.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
My linguistic homecoming has made a remarkable impact on my growth as a celebrator of Lumad literature. It couldn’t be otherwise. The noble expression and stories of Mindanao’s Lumad peoples can only be written and told in the language most akin to their experiences and reality.