Is Liberia tearing down its history?

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Is Liberia tearing down its history?


Liberia’s government is leading a campaign to get African Americans to come and settle there, offering citizenships and a “chance to reconnect with their roots”.

This movement is not new, with freed enslaved people from the US having arrived some 200 years ago to build the colony that became the Republic of Liberia.

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  1. Liberia will always be a jewel in my eyes… Black African American here from South Carolina with the British Surname… Hello to my Americo Liberian family in Liberia and here in the US.

  2. Le Libéria en afrique est en train de se développé de manière spectaculaire et n'est plus considérer comme un des pays les plus pauvres du monde avec ses ressources et denrées decouverte il y a plus de 10 ans

  3. There is so much to learn from the past, and tearing down those buildings for sure destroys the history. I like to hear about the indigenous Americans being transferred to Libera. You don’t destroy history, we learn from it.

  4. Dont tear down your culture just because blacks in USA are. Don't ever follow those men. That's like following Satan and he is a traitor to the human race and an outright enemy.
    They profane sacred things. They profaned a sacred month by calling it Black history month. Men followed them and castrated themselves. The chief made everyone drown before then. They are bad men. And what they did to Aunt Jemima during BLM. These people get worse every time and may be used as a subvergence by some Anglos to hurt the African people and every other people in order to keep indirect control for their English (speaking)monarcy in Britain. Maybe.
    That way we all stay a common wealth people and not an actual people who can care for ourselves. Blacks don't want Africa to grow, that's why they can't. They erased themselves seems like and will destroy whatever crumbs are left.

  5. African Americans did not discover Liberia, they where taken in by Liberia and try to inslave the natives like the whites did to them in America. That’s one of the major problem

    Edit: Maryland in African was the African American land that got integrated because of threats from bigger surrounding nations

  6. I am so proud of the work you are doing to shine light on Libberia forgotten history! Liberia means liberty and liberty means freedom! When our forefathers were free from slavery and oppression in America, they decided to get away from the system that oppressed them, the American colonization society took them to the origin of all black (mama Africa ), and they discovered this beautiful land with other local tribes, the enslaved people and the natives didn't get along initially. Still, they did; later on, our forefathers moved to a land that they called Liberia to reflect their freedom; someone asked me why Liberia? I said they sailed to Sierra Leone before coming to Liberia. Still, I made him to understand, most of the enslaved people taken to America were bought from Liberia, so those Enslavers had documents of where they bought their merchandise (Enslaved person) from, so when the slave trade ended, they traced their records so they can return our for father, I am a descendant of a free slave, that's the reason I am an African with a first and last name of an American ( Roosevelt) does that name sound American?

  7. We are not African Americans that name not only is stupid but I truly shows ignorance by calling us by two continents unlike any other group in the world. It’s hard to belt it a lot of Americans (black people) were already originally in America

  8. Team Leaders like Martin Luther king Jr, Malcolm X, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela , etc These are original team Leaders who had a vision, ability, 100 per cent capacity who could drive Africa citizens to a better future ,comfortable lifestyle.
    Team leaders will Let Africa citizens realise that Africa culture must be Preserve at all costs. And that Africa is not for Sale.
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  9. Go home & tell your people to work hard. Behaviour good. Be successful like others. That's education you can give.😂😂😂
    Nothing much we can do now. We all knows what happened.😜

  10. ✌🏿 to all of you, my people of blood and kin. I do not enter these discussions with any particular leanings. I enter with humility only to share my limited contributions as a son of that 43,000 square miles soil. (1)Our share of the Grain Coast we know as our Liberia became humanly habitable as a result of the breakup of the powerful Mali and Ghana empires. The less powerful ethnic elements of those empires continued their search for peace,abilities to farm,trade,practice their traditional acts of faith, retain their generations and basically maintain their human existence even if it meant with others,but peacefully;(2)I owe no 💯% allegiance to any singular ethnic or social Liberian group except the general, Liberian;(3)I am not a member of the ethnic or social group with which the subject in "Aljazeera's" Michigan resident visiting Liberia portrays however, I respect and understand her take on Liberianism;(4)Let's all remember that,like every other human society the tapestry of our makeup as a people and culture is profound and intricate and not,as simple as the various conversationalists present it;(5)In the Liberia I was born,raised and know to this day,the Capital,or still largest urban dwelling is Ducor Ta as western and some central ethnic groups refer to it while my maternal eastern ethnic group refers to that same city as Tudubor. The similarity in the nomenclature from both eastern, western ethnic groups is found in the description of "the town" situated at the "mouth" of the Du river- Ducor or Tudubor;(5)Please stop the unnecessary and unintelligent bickering over which social or ethnic group was "right" or "wrong " civil or uncivil in the formation of the society. Everyone came together with their inherent shortcomings. Correcting it is more rewarding for all than finger pointing and blame shifting. Many men seem to simply remain indifferent unintentionally or not,to the process of human evolution. For me,the Liberia and its people I understand and know, If God would request of me one wish,it would be to give me Liberia to run like Mao to instill discipline,and Jesus to shower mercy upon the people's ignorance and innocence. I like classic architecture so,I pray the Lord grants me the opportunity to leave for my posterity,a replica of the structure I was born in on Snapper Hill. 🙏🏾