Archive for the ‘Liberia’ Category
What does Africa have tons of that no one knows how to handle?
(Okay, that’s a little bit off, but these blog titles get tweeted now, so they have to be short and perky.) Land, of course! The African continent is freaking huge. Most of its inhabitants subsistence farm that land. Meanwhile, as oil bubbles up on the western coast and foreign-owned agro-farms crop up in the east [...]
Haitian voodoo is devil’s work, says Robertson. But Liberian gold? Bring it on.
The most interesting tidbit in Colum Lynch’s recent article, about Liberian warlord Charles Taylor’s American contacts, is “Blood Diamond”-mining Taylor apparently got Pat “Haiti-deserved-it” Robertson in the gold business. Per Lynch, Taylor claimed in his trial that Robertson took the concession and then lobbied George W. Bush to help keep Taylor in power. Apparently Robertson [...]
Get your Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on
Women’s Voices for Change ran an extended version of my interview with the Liberian president. Here’s some of the material that didn’t make it into the Newsweek interview. If you want to know how to prioritize in a country that needs everything, what EJS thinks about reconciliation after the TRC recommended banning her from office, [...]
An open apology to Liberia
UPDATE: Inexplicably, Vice has taken its apology letter down. Weird. But you can still find a cached version here. (Thanks, Google, the sometimes-benevolent big brother). Also, the Vice fixer’s perspective has been taken off his blog. Find it cached, here. What’s going on, Vice people? Why all the sudden not-copping-to things? Vice media has gotten [...]
I need to be working, but I can’t stop reading this
blog. This one, here. Sean’s in Liberia, and due to the malarial incident that has me riveted to the Internet and not to my work, I didn’t get to know him all that well when I was there. Which is too bad, because he’s so funny. Or maybe it’s for the best, because he’s so [...]
Sketches from the Liberia notebooks…
A farmer on the outskirts of Saniquellie, Liberia, itself on the outskirts of the town Ganta, itself near little but Guinea… I ask, “Do you stay in town?” “Yes, I stay in town with my wife and my children.” “With your wife?” “Yes.” “And how many children?” “I have…I am trying to figure out my [...]
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