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…
Read MoreWest Africa
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…
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In Africa, Inheriting a Field or a Feud?
Saniquellie, Liberia — A trip to a rice farm near here is like visiting a West African version of the Secret Garden. There’s a…
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The African Divide: Land Disputes
Zuluyee, Liberia; and Kailahun, Sierra Leone — The specialists know the warning signs. Analysts and scientists and field officers and academics spend years writing…
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Truth Commissions: A Comprehensive Report
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…
Read MoreAnd, belatedly, Madame President (in English or Dutch)
Sorry for the silence; writing about Liberia has taken over my life since…Liberia. A few weeks ago, Newsweek ran a Q&A I did with…
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Sitting Down With Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected Liberia’s president in 2005, she inherited a country wrecked by civil war and began to transform it. Today,…
Read MoreVexed by the King of Liberia
Glenna Gordon has a fantastic story about trying to take the photo of George Weah, massive soccer star and one-time presidential candidate, whose narrow…
Read MoreA look at loving and hating the French in Africa
Kudos to Adam Nossiter, the New York Times’ man in Dakar, for today’s piece on mixed feelings about the French across Francophone Africa. (He…
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