The government, under President George Weah, says the theme is meant to celebrate Liberia as a refuge for freed slaves and memorialise black freedom, nationhood as well as the role that Liberia has ...

University of Liberia leaders and professors have discovered staggering omissions in the Liberian history. Liberia, Africa's oldest Republic history contained amazing and broad omissions of tribal ...

The recent passing of three great scholars who in a serious way served Liberia is cause for reflection on the current status of Liberian history written by Liberians. The fallen scholars are ...

David Sasaki is in Monrovia, Liberia to teach Liberians how to blog. He writes a short history of the country: “Liberia’s history – and specifically its relationship with the United States – is ...

_ 1847: Country gains independence; draws up U.S.-type constitution. backbone of the economy. _ 1943: William Tubman is elected president; promotes foreign investment and local participation in ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 152, Special Issue: Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa (June 2017), pp. 322-335 (14 ...