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Author: Kurtis Scaletta
Publisher: Yearling Books
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 037585472X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter moving with his family to Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus discovers that he and the deadly black mamba have a mystical connection, which he is told will give him some of the snake's characteristics.
Author: James G. Antal
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Remy Ajakah
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019-06-18
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1728389038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ambitious Kemuel Afobula was sent to Monrovia to rescue High Rocks Computers, a firm that has just suffered a major setback. Contrary to his expectations, he found himself in a strange environment and sort for peculiar measures. While in Monrovia, Kemuel also battled to escape from memories of a failed relationship he had back home with Amaka. Then came Tricia – a possessive and no-nonsense girlfriend whom he surprisingly met through Goldfish - a former child soldier turned political errand-boy. Suddenly, Kemuel mysteriously got missing in his neighborhood and his girlfriend, Tricia, was speculated to have a hand in his disappearance. Will Kamuel succeed amidst daunting challenges if he ever resurfaces to complete his basic mission in Liberia? Set in the Atlantic Coast and beautiful capital city of Liberia, The Libericans is a captivating story of not just a man’s life of work, romance and adventure. It highlights the less talked about elegance of a people in an environment once ravaged by war. The book also boldly reveals current struggles of some former child soldiers and the vulnerability of the girl child as some haunting native traditions clash with modern society.
Author: Alan Huffman
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011-01-03
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1604737549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.
Author: Abiodun Alao
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1351893459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is the first to discuss in detail the extensive external involvement in the Liberian civil war, a war that claimed up to 200,000 lives, created a massive refuge crisis and brought West Africa to the tribunal of international attention. The book is conceived against the background that the international response to the conflict has features that are unprecedented in the management of civil conflicts in the post-cold war era. For example, the regional peacekeeping mission was the first after the end of the cold war, while the dispatch of UN Observer mission was the first ever joint peacekeeping mission between the UN and a regional organisation. The extensive involvement of international organisations in the conflict has not been witnessed in the region since the Biafran war of 1967-1970.
Author: United States. Hydrographic Office
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 534
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Liberian Information Service
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Topographic Center
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William F. Schulz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2023-05-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1512824046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the use of torture by the United States after 9/11; as well as growing concern about inequities in the American justice system, from police misconduct to the death penalty. Drawing upon his encounters with tyrants, the inspiration of brave human rights heroes, and collaborations with celebrities ranging from Patrick Stewart to Salma Hayek, Schulz uses poignant narrative and amusing anecdotes to discuss the day-to-day realities of struggling with life-and-death human rights crises. In the process he ducks an assassination threat in Liberia; brings tears to the eyes of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; and bests America's self-described "toughest sheriff" on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect. Full of reflection as well as action, Reversing the Rivers provides Schulz with the opportunity to address profound philosophical questions, such as "What is the nature of evil?"; "How do we foster the 'better angels of our nature'?" "When may we use force to stop people from using force?" "Is the prohibition on torture as simple as it seems?" and "What's wrong with an eye for an eye?" Most important, in an eloquent concluding chapter, he answers the quandary most frequently posed to him during his years at Amnesty, "Given all the horrors in the world you see day after day, how do you retain any hope at all in humanity?"
