Vamba Sherif is Liberia's most successful novelist. In this exhaustive interview, Vamba talks about Land of My Fathers, his first novel, which has now been published in English and much more. ...
The story of the Liberian civil war remains incomplete when the horrific memory of the massacre at the St. Peter’s Lutheran Church is omitted. In the early morning hours of July 29, 1990, cowards-in-arms stormed the sacred edifice of the St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and murdered scores of men, women and children in cold blood. Eye witnesses’ accounts speak of the sounds of machetes, gunshots and screams......
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....
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...
Land of My Fathers is the latest novel by Liberian-born author, Vamba Sherif, to be published in English. First written and published in Dutch in 1999, Land of My Fathers is Vamba's first novel. A tour de force literary journey to Liberia's incipient years of nationhood, it is a sanguine story of friendship and mutual respect among Liberia's disparate people....
Vamba Sherif is Liberia's most successful novelist. In this exhaustive interview, Vamba talks about Land of My Fathers, his first novel, which has now been published in English and much more. ...
