In the documentary, Cannibal Warlords of Liberia one of the issues that was brought up by interviewed individuals were that they lacked a rudimentary elementary education. Being able to read and write is a basic human necessity that everyone in society must have to function in an international arena. In West Point, one of Liberia’s most lamentable slums, there are drug houses filled with kids who can barely communicate on the most pivotal level. There are only a few schools located in West Point, but with no suitable teachers and no one to help keep it clean, they usually become abandoned. Most women work in brothels because there is no other way to make money in that region; just like in any other place they have their own Red Light District.
