Editor's Desk 

African Literature: Ekwensi & John Tafida’s Jiki Magayi

Could This Be Literary Fraud? Dissecting Cyprian Ekwensi’s An African Night Entertainment And John Tafida’s Jiki Magayi By Ibrahim Musa In the literary world, Cyprian Ekwensi is a household name. This holds true particularly for the volume of work he churned out within the corpus of African literature. He was a very good story teller, especially of the urban tale, that many people see him as a better story teller than the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka or even the more famous novelist, Chinua Achebe. In stark contrast, John Tafida can…

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Politics 

Enemies Of Progress

The Editor, When it comes to lifting Liberians out of poverty, our government programs and policies have had disastrous consequences on the poor— but yet Governor Jones calls those who are opposed to our Central Bank’s highly risky loan program (micro-finance loans) … “enemies of progress”! (“Enemies of Progress”, Liberian Daily Observer Online) Ok, let’s see who are the real enemies of progress, shall we? #1) Since June 2009, the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) started a micro finance program to promote access to capital, reduce poverty and finance Governor…

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Politics 

HOPE IN MIDST OF STORM- A RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT SIRLEAF’S STATE OF NATION

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s 2016 SON, in my analysis, is a forward leaning message, in spite of the ups and downs in the last decade of the UP led coalition. As I listened to the Harvard trained Public Administrator on Monday afternoon, I found a lot of symbolism in her annual message, while driving around a very distress section on the Southside of Chicago, ten minutes between my residential block to that of President Obama’s Chicago residence in the Hyde Park Neighborhood. For a brief description, these blocks once served as…

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News 

FIRST INTL. BANK LIBERIA SOLD AFTER US$500K ‘IN-HOUSE’ ROBBERY

By Rodney Sieh Monrovia – FiBank Liberia, one of the first financial institutions to surface in the aftermath of the election of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf that was at the verge of bankruptcy has now been taken over by new shareholder, Ghana Growth Fund Company (GGFC) to protect the bank from collapse. The bank was about to close as the report of the bank’s imminent collapse surfaced amid what sources tell FrontPageAfrica has been a series of lingering suspicious inside robbery activities at the institution. The report follows the acquisition of…

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Politics 

Liberia 2017: John Morlu the generational change and leader that Liberia needs

By Francis Cordor What type of man leaves a high-paying job in the United States to go fight corruption in Liberia – a move that immediately earns him high-powered enemies at all levels of the Liberian government? What type of man fires the entire General Auditing Commission staff upon assuming the Auditor General position, yet generously provides former employees with career opportunities such as four years of education or the opportunity for rehire through an employment test? What type of man faces off against a hostile legislature, and wins its…

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