Tweet The city of Monrovia has been taken over by post 2015 fever – roads are being blocked off, schools closed and traffic lights, a novelty to Liberia’s post-war population, made a show. Hotels, including the New Royal, almost touching the Monrovia, are overbooked. Liberians, old enough to remember the country’s hosting of the Organization [...]
Children’s books from the Liberia Series
January 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tweet Two new children’s books from Liberian writers – From Stephanie Horton “What Happened To Red Rooster When a Visitor Came” Illustrated by: Chase Walker - Grade Level: PK-3 Red Rooster was the biggest, most beautiful chick on the farm. So what happened to Red Rooster when a visitor came? Read Stephanie Horton’s hilarious tale of [...]
‘Power of Words’: Developing a Culture of Reading Will Unlock Liberia’s Consciousness
November 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
I was 12, and the protagonist, Sophie Caco—an immigrant from Port-au-Prince who moves to New York to reunite with her mother—gave voice to my very own story of migration. It appeared as if Danticat were speaking through me, to me, and about me, all at once. This book was the closest I could find to an authent
Vagina Dialogue: A Date with Eve Ensler
August 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
Tweet The poem Vagina Dialogue: A Date with Eve Ensler was first published by ‘Sea Breeze: Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writing‘ in 2006. Sea Breeze which is edited by Stephanie Horton was one of the first online literary journals on the continent. The journal has a 7 year archive of must read radical and [...]
Of Sheroes & The Fire Dance
August 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tweet Today I’m thinking of painted halos. A metaphor, see? How the crowned are throned and made into angels . . . people with halos painted by other people without. Of sheroes, I may have found one in a political leader. Is such a thing at all possible? Do politicians today without painted halos exist? [...]
South Africa, Liberia and Sudan
June 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tweet First published in Pambazuka News 21/6/2012 In the early hours of June 9, 2012, a 23-year-old gay man, Thapelo Makhutle was mutilated and murdered in his home in Kuruman, Northern Cape, South Africa. In the same week, on June 4, 36-year-old Neil Daniels’ body was found burned in Cape Town. According to the crowdsourcing [...]
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