Lapulapu, the Bornean Baloney, and the vacuum of history

Lapulapu was Muslim and therefore the museum planned for him by the National Quincentennial Committee should have Muslim architectural elements.

If only Wannamacher read the last line of the previous paragraph on this particular page, he would have been estopped from his ridiculous if not awfully embarrassing suggestions, with the tourism officer as alleged. It reads: “Most of what is known about Lapu-Lapu in recent times was embedded in folk myths and legends, heavily loaded with nationalist discourses.”

Given this vacuum therefore came attempts at filling it up by inventing history, cloaking it as folklore handed down from one’s grandparents or, in the case of the story of the ten Bornean datus, from an old trunk full of papers. By then, the damage was done, two generations of Filipinos had read them in history textbooks authored by Zaide.

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