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The Literary Hour: Call for Submissions

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 admin2Call for Submission, Liberia, Literature0 comment

The Literary Hour hosts invite submissions for the edited volume titled “What Liberia Means to Me.” The volume will contain reflections that focus on personal stories, anecdotes, community experiences culture, arts and lived experiences. Entries may be reflective, humorous, Submissions may be in English or local Liberian languages with translation. Essay length of no more than three paragraphs (700 words limit) – Entries must be unpublished and submitted in Palatino font (12 pts), double-spaced in 8 1/2” x 11” paper size, with a brief bio of no more than 6…

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Liberia: War Crimes Trial Hears “Angel Gabriel” Ordered Children Burned Alive

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 admin2Africa, Liberia, New Narratives, War Crimes0 comment

Mae Azango, New Narratives Justice Correspondent MONROVIA, Liberia – Three witnesses appearing in the ongoing war crimes trial former Revolutionary United Front commander, Gibril Massaquoi told the court harrowing stories on Tuesday. The first witness, a 45-year old man, from the Lofa County village of Karmatahun, said “Angel Gabriel” as Massaquoi was known during the war, order his men to burn about 25 small children alive in a cook shop and burn others in a nearby house. “I was standing right there and saw it with my two eyes, when…

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Young Democracy Activist, Dougbeh Chris Nyan Profiled by Archie Williams Archive Center

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 admin2Dougbeh Nyan, Leader, Liberia, Student0 comment

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – He is sometimes referred to as a “political doctor.” Many who may not know of his past continue to wonder why a medical doctor, inventor, and award-winning scientist, Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan, is so politically informed, engaging, and astute to Liberian, African and global politics – on issues of democracy, good governance, economic independence, women’s rights, the disadvantaged, etc. Recently, the electronic-based “Archie P. Williams Center For Historical Information And Archives Research” profiled Dr. Nyan and his early days of pro-democracy and human rights activism…

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Witness Accuses Massaquoi of Burning Civilians Alive

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 admin2Finland, New Narratives, War Crimes0 comment

By Mae Azango, New Narratives Senior Justice Correspondent MONROVIA – A witness in the ongoing war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi in Monrovia has accused the ex-Sierra Leonean rebel commander of burning one hundred civilians alive in Kolahun District, Lofa County in 2001. The man, the second of three persecution witnesses on Monday told Finnish judges on Monday that Massaquoi ordered the victims, including women and children, to crowd a house in Karmatahhun and then ordered rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to pour it with gasoline…

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongio will succeed Vinton Cerf, known for being one of the fathers of the Internet. Cerf was the first technologist to receive the prize, with other awarded figures including the philosopher Karl Popper, oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, politician Václav Havel, writer Doris Lessing, and activist Malala Yousafzai. The prize will be awarded to the Kenyan author during the first quarter of 2020 at a ceremony chaired by Catalan president Quim Torra.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o nominated as author and translator in first for International Booker

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 admin20 comment

Kenyan novelist’s The Perfect Nine is first work written in an indigenous African language to be longlisted Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has become the first writer to be nominated for the International Booker prize as both author and translator of the same book, and the first nominee writing in an indigenous African language. The 83-year-old Kenyan and perennial Nobel favourite is among 13 authors nominated for the award for best translated fiction, a £50,000 prize split evenly between author and translator. Thiong’o is nominated as writer and translator of The Perfect Nine,…

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Massaquoi Accused of Killing Almost an Entire Town

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 admin2Angel Gabriel, Finland, War Crimes0 comment

Massaquoi Accused of Killing Almost an Entire Town

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Tribute: OyaBisi Ideraabdullah, a lifelong work to restore hope to Africans at home and abroad

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 admin2Africa, Humanitarian, OyaBisi Ideraabdullah0 comment

OyaBisi Ideraabdullah is a Brooklyn, NY-born, educator, activist, humanitarian, and a wife and mother of five children. She graduated from City College and attended Columbia University, Brooklyn College, the University of Ghana, and the University of Zambia. As the first Black recipient of the Brooklyn College Alumnae Study Abroad Scholarship, she chose to study for a year in Africa. When her year was up, she vowed that one day she would return to Africa. Mrs. Ideraabdullah is the founder of Imani House Liberia and New York – www.imanihouse.org, and the Women…

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Witness at Massaquoi Trial links Charles Taylor to Blood Diamonds

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 admin2Finland, New Narratives, War Crimes Trial0 comment

Mae Azango New Narratives Justice Correspondent MONROVIA, Liberia – A witness told the Finnish court hearing the war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi on Friday, that the former leader of the Sierra Leonean rebel group the Revolutionary United Front gave then Liberian President Charles Taylor gold and diamonds in exchange for arms and ammunitions to fuel Liberia’s civil war. Taylor is serving a 50-year prison sentence in a United Kingdom prison for aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone. He has never faced charges…

Interviews

Voice of the Revolution Special Issue September 1979 : Gabriel Bacchus Matthews Interviewed

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 admin2Liberia, Matthews, PAL, Progressives0 comment

SPECIAL EDITION September 1979 APRIL 14 A YAH! “It is madness to suppose that the capitalists will submit voluntarily and that they will calmly surrender their…profits, their privileges of exploitation. All ruling classes have fought obstinately to the end for their privileges… All shed rivers of blood. They trampled upon corpses, they committed murder, arson, and state treason; they precipitated civil war for the purpose of defending their privileges and power. The imperialist capitalist class will defend its ‘holy of holies’—its profits and privileges of exploitation—tooth and nail. It will…

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Liberia: War Crimes Court Hears “Angel Gabriel” roasted women and children

April 5, 2021April 6, 2021 admin2Angel Gabriel, Gabril Massaquoi, War Crimes0 comment

Mae Azango, New Narratives Justice correspondent MONROVIA, Liberia – A former government soldier told the Finnish war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi, the former Revolutionary United Front commander, harrowing stories Wednesday of Massaquoi massacring women and children in Lofa County and roasting them. “Gibril Massaquoi killed women and children and opened up the bodies and roasted them just like roasted meat,” said the soldier codenamed “Soldier 1” by the court to conceal his identity. “Soldier 1” told the court his brother, a child, was among the victims. “He…