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.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Unknown to the Filipino people, their love for and devotion to the English language carries with it an adoration of all things and stuffs associated with the language. Truly, we have fallen into the cultural trap of loving everything English. Or everything that comes with the language of the Americans.
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
I don’t know if I can afford one if ever I will have kids in the future given the K+12 Law and the commercialization of education. It is a sad and infuriating fact that education should liberate us from the quagmires of poverty but it is the one thing which drives us to despair knowing that our children and our children’s children may never get one.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Maybe, the deplorable circumstance of history, making us enslaved to a foreign language and culture, would hold sway for many generations yet to come. And this certainly constitutes one of the fundamental elements that hold back our movement forward to progress, especially to freedom from poverty.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
The campaign is reduced to a purely ego-tripping affair, making use of advertising and marketing strategies designed for winning the contest at all costs. It is not a venue for informing and mobilizing the people for a discernment of particular social illnesses which have been there for so long.