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First among equals

infini — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:47:41 -0800

The Economist issues a glowing report on efforts made by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman in Africa to become a democratically elected head of state, at the halfway mark through her presidency of Liberia. Already considered 'my hero' among the young, her determination, her resolve and her unstinting efforts to bring peace and economic development to her nation are an unexpectedly welcome counterpoint to the usual 'war, famine, disease, corruption' stories that tend to emerge from her continent.

Really old time religion

alloneword — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:27:19 -0800

General Butt Naked is now a preacher of some kind of Christianity. But in his adolescence he ran a gang of soldiers in the Liberian civil war which killed, he thinks, about 20,000 civilians. They fought naked except for their army boots, crazed on drink and ganga. Before the fight they would kill children and eat their hearts. Now he claims that it was all down to evil spirits and wants forgiveness.

If you do not label every aspect of your personality with different colors, you will not recognize them and they will come up and seize you.

Sticherbeast — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:20:38 -0800

Where are you going? Where we came from. Where have we come from? Every place and no place, so come, let’s go.

10 Stories

ND¢ — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:21:59 -0800

Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About.

Gotcha CT

pwedza — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:34:03 -0800

A step toward justice in West Africa.

and the band played on

serafinapekkala — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:24:44 -0800

"The morning started again with a series of four mortar shells exploding with a muffled thump in the ocean behind our hospital..." Reports from Monrovia, Liberia by Dr. Andrew Schechtman, a volunteer with Medecins Sans Frontieres -- graphic but compelling.

Bush OKs sending force to Liberia coast

jpoulos — Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:33:00 -0800

Bush OKs troops in Liberia even though President Charles Taylor remains. (Taylor's abdication of the presidency had been a US requirement before troops would be sent.) It's obviously a tough call for the White House to make, but are we in for a repeat of Somalia 1993?

Liberia

plep — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:40:40 -0800

Maps of Liberia , 1830-1879. The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. Here's a brief history of the American Colonization Society, with images of places, currency, letters etc.
The Yekepa Memory Project includes materials about Yekepa, Liberia, such as postcards and stamps.
Related :- Liberia, June 1999 photoessay.
Also of interest :- a collection of photos of neighbouring Guinea, 1905.