Liberia
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Liberia, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- Nina Simone's Ashes and Her Years of Exile in Liberia (Article)
- Samuel Doe's 1980 Coup and the Killing of William Tolbert (Article)
- Trump's July 2025 White House Summit With Five West African Leaders (Article)
- Charles Taylor: Warlord, President, and Convicted War Criminal (Article)
- George Weah Becomes Africa's Only World and European Footballer of the Year (Article)
- The American Colonization Society and the Founding of Liberia (Article)
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Africa's First Elected Female President (Article)
- From Ballon d'Or to Ballot Box: George Weah's Election as Liberia's President (Article)
- The Fernando Po Scandal: Liberia's President Resigns Over a Forced-Labor Trade (Article)
From the Archive
- Trump asking the Liberian leader where he learnt English from, which is literally the official b language o…
- BREAKING: Trump is trying to dump US migrants and asylum seekers in Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon and…
- In 8 years, from 1990 - 1998, Nigerian soldiers, who predominantly made up the Economic Community Cease-Fir…
- ICYMI: Speaking of the African diaspora— especially those whose (grand) parents willingly migrated from any…
- Liberia have lost her full membership rights at the African Union, is now relegated to the status of a mere…
- GRAPHIC: One of Africa's worst rulers, Samuel Doe hatched a brutal coup d'etat in 1980, Liberia. He not onl…
- After the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885 where the Motherland was unilaterally carved up on a table by Euro…
- The 21 safest countries to travel to in Africa are: Angola Benin Botswana Cape Verde Djibouti Equatorial Gu…
- Do you know that the ashes of Nina Simone, one of the most influential blues and jazz singer of all times,…
- Liberia's Minister Eugene Fahngon engaging Air Maroc officials for discriminating. A 9am scheduled flight w…
- Today, Africa's first elected female President, Liberia's ex-President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was awarded th…
- George Weah sent this postcard in 1990 to Elizabeth Blunt @BluntSpeaking for her diligent coverage of Liber…
- Today, George Weah was sworn in as the President of Liberia, succeeding Africa's first elected female Presi…
- Filled with tears, the President-elect of Liberia, George Weah appreciate his celebrating supporters for hi…
- We were a tad hasty the last time, but it has been confirmed that George Weah—the 1995 World Footballer of…
- Happy Birthday to Africa's first elected female President, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who t…
- The New York Times in May 15th, 1852 suggesting that all Negros in USA be shipped away to Liberia. You need…
- Miss Liberia 1965, Melvilla Harris.
- Meet Mrs Leymah Gbowee, Liberian activist; Nobel Peace Prize 2011 winner; Founder/President, Gbowee Peace F…
- The capital cities of Liberia (Monrovia), Serria Leone (Freetown) and Gabon (Libreville, "free town" in Fre…
- 22 African Nobel Prize winners: (R)SA - 10 Egypt - 4 Algeria - 2 Liberia - 2 Nigeria - 1 Kenya - 1 Zim - 1…
- In 1995 Liberia's George Weah won the World Footballer of the Year, African Footballer of the Year and Euro…
- Soliciting folks in Serria Leone, Liberia Guinea and Nigeria, especially Lagos (densely populated - 20 mill…
- Malcolm X in 1959 & 1964 visited Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Sudan, Senegal, Liberia…
- Death toll from Ebola outbreak in West Africa rose to 528 by last week Wednesday, with 398 in Guinea, 97 in…
- Africa now has 3 female presidents; Catherine Samba-Panza (Central African Republic), Joyce Banda (Malawi),…
- Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman who chaired the country's transitional government from 2003 to 2006 afte… (2014)
- Liberia ex-president Charles Taylor lost his appeal against a war-crimes conviction.Judges affirmed a 50-yr…
- Liberia's capital Monrovia was named after former US President James Monroe #Correction
- Liberian dictator General Samuel Doe was killed in September 1990 when he bled to death after his right ear…
- Liberia has been through turbulent times though. It's good to see the country back on track with a popular…
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts, born and raised in US, was Liberia's first President. Style of government & constit…
- More huge settlements of immigrants and freed US slaves led to a declaration of independence of the Republi…
- Liberia was founded by free Blacks and freed slaves from USA in 1820. An initial group of 86 immigrants set…
- Happy Independence to Liberia! The Land of the Free!
- After Liberia's independence in 1847,the Americo-Liberian black settlers excluded indigenous Africans from…
- Charles Taylor, former Liberia despot, gave Naomi Campbell a bag of diamonds as a gift after they met at a…
- Oprah Winfrey originally thought she was Zulu but subsequent DNA testing showed she was a descendent of the…
- After World War II only 3 African nations were independent: Egypt, Liberia and Ethiopia. The whole continen…
- The Leopard Claw was a weapon used to imitate the large cat's claws. Known from Leopard Society, a cult in…