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The mask of anarchy updated edition: The destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war (NYU Press, 2006). Everill, Bronwen. Abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Gershoni, Yekutiel (1985). Black Colonialism: The Americo-Liberian Scramble for the Hinterland. London: Westview Press.
Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912) was an Americo-Liberian [1] educator, writer, diplomat, and politician who was primarily active in West Africa.Born in the Danish West Indies, he joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to Liberia.
Liberia, [a] officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km 2). The ...
Americo-Liberian people (also known as Congo people or Congau people), [2] are a Liberian ethnic group of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and liberated African origin. Americo-Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans who emigrated in the 19th century to become the founders of the state of Liberia.
Led by the Americo-Liberians, Liberia declared independence on July 26, 1847, which the U.S. did not recognize until February 5, 1862. Liberia was the first African republic to proclaim its independence and is Africa's first and oldest modern republic.
Liberia, officially the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society between 1821, before becoming the self-proclaimed independent nation of the Republic of Liberia, after declaring independence on July 26 of 1847, but was not recognized by the United States until September 23, 1862
Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office Monday after his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, who at age 79 has become the country's oldest president, promised to ...
In 1960 Ethiopia and Liberia, the only two other former League of Nations member states in Africa, petitioned the Hague to rule in a binding decision that the league mandate was still in force and to hold South Africa responsible for failure to provide the highest material and moral welfare of black South West Africans.