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With the explosion of Information Technology, the amount of misinformation and disinformation multiplied since it can now be shared and distributed worldwide with just a click on the keyboard. And it remains in cyberspace, perhaps forever. Seemingly innocuous information could easily pass for facts.I just saw on the Internet such misinformation about my father. Actually, I’ve read it more than 20…

Torogan, the Mranao royal house

Here is a newspaper article I wrote on the Torogan, the Mranao royal house, specifically, the Dayawan Torogan, our family’s torogan. I had posted this before in my websites and in my blogs that got removed due to whatever reasons.

This is our clan’s “Torogan” or royal house. Built around 1740, this Torogan witnessed a long history of Marawi – the glorious and the inglorious. The Torogan was the…