On July 18, 2002 in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, hundreds of unarmed civilians, including women, children and babies, were trucked to a bridge over the Maher River, where they were massacred. Maher, Black Rain in Bomi is a film adaptation of that tragic incident.
A culinary revolution is underway in America. Its goal is to cast an ambrosial spell that will whet the palates of all and sundry with delectable gourmet African food. The epicurean general behind this revolution is Liberian-born executive chef, Thalmus Y. Hare.
E. Owusu Dahnsaw, a young and talented Liberian actor, has set his sights on becoming an international movie star. And though his path seems to be littered with more than its fair share of challenges, Owusu believes that he has what it takes to achieve his dream.
The first African to graduate from Harvard College was a Liberian. His name was Plenyono Gbe Wolo. The son of a Kru chief, he was popularly known at Harvard as "the African prince." This is his trailblazing story.
During the days of antiquity, alchemy was believed to be an art that could endow its practitioners with a special ability to turn ordinary metals into gold and, achieve the elixir of life. In the world of hip hop also, a few of its practitioners could be said to be practicing a form of alchemy—lyrical alchemy, that is...
By Bessie A. Winn-Afeku
Culled from Huffington Post
I can remember growing up, I always had this feeling of being caught between two cultures: my Ghanaian culture and my American culture. At home, I was raised and completely immersed in Ghanaian culture...
On July 26, 1865, just a few months after the end of the American Civil War on May 9, the reverberations of that bloody conflict, ignited by the issue of slavery in the US and the rights of its people of African ancestry, did not go unfelt in the fledgling nation of Liberia, which was founded by fre...
On this day, 25 years ago, during the early years of the First Liberian Civil War, a Liberian student was summarily executed by a rebel of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) in a grassy patch on a roadside in the small township of Bentol, located 50 km from Monrovia, Liberia...
Catching Ricebirds: A Story of Letting Vengeance Go is an intensely engrossing autobiography by Liberian-born author, Marcus Doe, which tells the story about how his childhood innocence was ruthlessly shattered by the civil war that consumed his nation and his long struggle to come to terms with his tragic past before finally finding redemption through forgiveness and his faith in God.
A culinary revolution is underway in America. Its goal is to cast an ambrosial spell that will whet the palates of all and sundry with delectable gourmet African food. The epicurean general behind this revolution is Liberian-born executive chef, Thalmus Y. Hare.
