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The city of Monrovia has been taken over by post 2015 fever — roads are being blocked off, schools closed and traffic lights, a novelty to Liberia’s post-war population, made a show. Hotels, including the New Royal, almost touching the…
Children’s books from the Liberia Series
Two new children’s books from Liberian writers – From Stephanie Horton “What Happened To Red Rooster When a Visitor Came” Illustrated by: Chase Walker –?Grade Level: PK-3 Red Rooster was the biggest, most beautiful chick on the farm. So what…
‘Power of Words’: Developing a Culture of Reading Will Unlock Liberiaa€?s Consciousness
I was 12, and the protagonist, Sophie Cacoa€”an immigrant from Port-au-Prince who moves to New York to reunite with her mothera€”gave voice to my very own story of migration. It appeared as if Danticat were speaking through me, to me, and about me, all at once. This book was the closest I could find to an authent
Vagina Dialogue: A Date with Eve Ensler
The poem Vagina Dialogue: A Date with Eve Ensler was first published by ‘Sea Breeze: Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writing‘ in 2006. ? Sea Breeze which is edited by Stephanie Horton? was one of the first online literary journals on…
Of Sheroes & The Fire Dance
Today I’m thinking of painted halos. A metaphor, see? How the crowned are throned and made into angels . . . people with halos painted by other people without. Of sheroes, I may have found one in a political leader….
South Africa, Liberia and Sudan
First published in Pambazuka News 21/6/2012 In the early hours of June 9, 2012, a 23-year-old gay man, Thapelo Makhutle was mutilated and murdered in his home in Kuruman, Northern Cape, South Africa. In the same week, on June 4,…
Liberia: Going Home the Same Way They Came: Buduburam on My Mind as D-Day Nears
Perched on vast acres of land dotted with concrete buildings marked in colorful chalk, Buduburam Refugee Camp on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, has always been a place of transit for Liberians. Camp dwellers are like expectant passengers on a…
The cost of international criminal justice
50 years he got. Taylor, at 64, is unlikely going to be a free man ever again in his life. 4 years, and approximately US $250 million later, the world can scream VICTORY for yet another ‘successful’ prosecution of a…
Interviews with Brenda Hollis & Stephen Rapp, current and former chief prosecutors of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; Charles Taylor’s defense attorney and daughter & others on the Charles Taylor guilty verdict
Following the recent guilty verdict delivered to Charles Taylor [read my commentary here] ?I conducted a number of interviews in the Hague immediately following the verdict. ?To listen to the interviews, visit SOAS Radio?
Reflections on Charles Taylor and Justice
Much has changed since I covered the first day of Charles Taylor’s trial for Pambazuka News on June 4, 2007. That day, he failed to show up to court, calling the case against him a “farce.” Today, he was in…
The Promise of April 12: A Preface to Liberiaa€?s Complicated Biography
April 12, 1980 is often described as the beginning of Liberia’s end. I think of it as the preface to Liberia’s long, complicated biography, the beginning of our awakening. It was a day when our pomp and circumstance left a…
Moving From Open Door to a€?Growth with Developmenta€?
During President William Tubman’s Open Door Policy, Liberia was averaging double-digit growth rates. Being open for business, however, did not mean growth was open to all. In the 1960s, it was claimed that we had ‘growth without development’–economic activities from…
Statement on President Johnson Sirleaf by LGBTI Liberians & Allies
March 22, 2012-PRESS STATEMENT / Immediate release from THE COALITION OF LGBTI* LIBERIANS AND ALLIES (CLA)? and THE INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, recently expressed in an…
Fighting For Black Gold In Africa: Liberians Approach Oil Finds With Caution
News released at the end of February that Liberia was on the cusp of an unprecedented oil discovery garnered much more than just praise and adulation. Listservs and websites lit up one by one with lightening speed. Liberians reacted like…
IWD: Seek Ye First the Economic Kingdom, Woman
Africa’s first post-independence president, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, urged colonial Africa to “seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added onto you.” Nkrumah was alluding to the biblical verse, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God…
Anti-gay rights crusade in Africa a distraction
2 1/2 years since it’s first reading in October 2009, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill?full texthas once again been tabled in parliament. The bill was shelved in 2010 at which time?President Yoweri Museveni?warned those advocating for the Bill that it was…
Liberia Anti-Homosexuality Bill: An open letter to Leymah Gbowee
A Piece of the Peace: Leymah, Please Speak Out for Human & Civil Rights for All Liberians Dear Leymah, Your courage is legendary. You are an icon in your own time for peace-building. In answer to a question about what…
From Lifting Liberia to Lifting Liberians: Second Term Challenges for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
?Born in Monrovia, Liberia, Robtel Neajai Pailey is an activist/writer who spent her formative years in Washington, D.C. ?Robtel moved to Liberia in July 2007 to work in the Office of the President, Republic of Liberia, as special assistant for…
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