Liberia

enslaved to achieve a life free of discrimination, while others thought it was cruel to separate these people from the only home they had ever known. In 1817, the American Colonization Society was created to send African Americans to the colony of Liberia. A collection of letters from a slave named Rachel Eddington provide a vivid first-person account…

that are associated with this epidemic. Not only for Liberia, considered the epicenter of Ebola cases, but economists are analyzing the devastating economical effects of the virus in other West African countries like Guinea and Sierra Leone. According to World Bank, their economic issues can become catastrophic if Ebola is not rapidly contained because “Sectors such as agriculture and services are already suffering in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia due to dwindling workforce, and neighboring…

discussing Cape Palmas terms of equality with Mesrurado, Bassa, and Sinoe caused difficulties in Liberia leading to shortage in food. In many places around the world suffer from hunger and poverty, but Africa is where the most suffering happens, especially in places like Liberia. In Africa, Liberia is one of the poorest countries and the people have no support from their government. One of the main causes of Liberia suffering from food shortage was the invasion of Europeans in the fifteenth…

Liberia Liberia was created in 1820 when the United States negotiated the rights for their freed slaves to settle there. In 1847 the country was declared a republic and operated with similar political institutions as the US. Liberia has many problems that have come from the two civil wars that took place between 1989 and 1996 and between 1999 and 2003, poor government and mismanagement. As the poorest country in Africa, its standards of living need to be improved drastically. Liberia’s…

History of Liberia As the race to claim stake in Africa came underway in the late nineteenth century, European influence on the continent had long been felt by the indigenous people. Pre-colonial African Kingdoms had established trade with the early European explorers. As the trade relationships amongst tribes and the Europeans enhanced, the abundance of African resources such as agriculture, precious metals and more importantly slaves often left with the ships of the explorers. As time went…

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…

international agency or academic institution? Does the country seem to be giving this problem the attention and resources it deserves? The government and people of Liberia need to be praised for the determination they had, to defeat Ebola regardless of the limited resources available to them. According to a recent article in Forbes, Liberia has only 50 practicing doctors covering a population of 4 million, this is a huge deficient in the health care infrastructure and this was one of the main…

Issues in Liberia and Sierra Leone had different conditions and root causes. Liberia was founded and declared as a state and a republic in 1847 by freed black American slaves, commonly referred to as Americo-Liberians. Most Liberians, especially the indigenous people, initially greeted Doe’s coup with euphoria and enthusiasm, but he basically practiced his predecessors’ ethnic and class politics. The crisis in Liberia largely reflected the internal factors outlined above, but one should not…

full of upside downs. She got married at the age of seventeen and had four children. This experience gave her strength and a desire to succeed. She went back to college after giving birth to four children. She experienced violence, and civil wars in Liberia. All these experiences strengthened her desire to succeed in life and increased her determination by surviving extreme odds. She earned an accounting degree at the Madison College of Business, later studied economics at the University of…

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria had decided to team up a help to be able to strengthen bilateral relations. This is something that isn’t hasn’t been seen in the global world before but Nigeria have called for the strengthening of fraternal bonds between the two countries the media thought different. It was bias comments about that a woman couldn’t do it alone being a leader that it shows and proves that female in office will always need help. Some…