Ebola: Where we are; where we should be
Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?
Liberia
Africa is a Radio: Episode #6
Africa is a Radio episode 6 opens up with a transnational blend, combining remixes of Dotorado
Get Well Soon, Ashoka
Today the American network NBC announced publicly that friend (and contributor) of Africa is a Country, Ashoka Mukpo, is
To Live and Die with Ebola in Liberia
The idea that this has been a crisis only of the country’s health care systems is wrong. This has also been a crisis of governance.
This is not your conventional film about Liberia
Most films about Liberia are feature films or gritty documentaries focus almost perversely on the horrors of the civil war. Not "Out of my hand."
The Disneyfication of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson
The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.
Press Freedom in Liberia
Liberian journalists are measured against the ideals of Albert Porte, a muckraking mid-20th century reporter. These days they're doing him proud.
Liberian Independence, Staten Island Style
This past Spring I wrote an article for the Red Bull Music Academy about the music and
Mining the Body
What can the photographs of American anthropologist Danny Hoffman tell us about Sierra Leone and Liberian mineworkers or about mining in West Africa?
VICE and the “new journalism model”*
The business of journalism as we know is in trouble and there’s a scramble for a
My favorite photographs N°4: Nana Kofi Acquah
My grandmother had a pub where wayfarers, fishermen, their wives, officers and anybody who had trouble
Film: “Imagining Emanuel”
Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes, film editors at Brooklyn Rail, write about the documentary film “Imagining
The CIA’s Charles Taylor Revelation
Recent revelations, which have always been suspected, have strengthened the United States’ role in the Liberian
Photographing Liberia
The latest entrant to our series where we ask photographers to talk to us about their five favorite images, is Glenna Gordon.
The return of the one party state
The regime of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Liberia's first post-conflict president, is increasingly guilty of lack of accountability and abetting corruption.
Liberian Demo-crazy
There’s been a lot of rumors and propaganda flying around related to the Liberian run-off election,
Lone Stars Shining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJ-DCMBKKI It seems that the election atmosphere remains tense, but word from Liberia is people are taking
Who is Leymah Gbowee
Gbowee, an activist, is one of three Liberian women to jointly be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Most Western media, though, didn't do right by her.
The Nobel Peace Prize’s Kanye Moment
To get a taste of how unpopular Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the political class in general in Liberia are, just turn to the country's artists, especially its musicians.
The definition of hip-co
Takun J, the leading proponent of the Liberian music genre, breaks down its essence for a