The Masks of the PORO
By Dag Walker Poro Societies (males) and Sande Society (females) and other secret societies are so central to most Liberian history that one must have some understanding to grasp the nation and its people. There is the person, and there is the persona, “the role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one’s public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.”1. We all take on rôles during the course of the day. You might be a man, a father, a husband, a friend, a…
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