Liberia has had more than a decade to plan for the day when international peacekeepers in blue helmets and their civilian counterparts would eventually pack up and leave.
Letter to the President: On the Education and Employment System
The educational system is not beneficial to students as it does not directly respond to the existing economic demands outside the school system.
OP-ED: Play Your Role America, Liberia Considers You Our Savior
America must go beyond the usual rhetoric in its diplomatic dealings with Liberia and truly consider it the partner it claims it to be and often brags about because of a shared history.
Letter to Malia and Sasha Obama: Weeping Voices in Dying Valleys
A letter to Malia and Sasha Obama, in light of their visit to Liberia.
OP-ED: Protect Endangered Girls by Leveraging Foreign Aid to Bring Democracy
America’s First Lady Michelle Obama is coming to Liberia to promote education for girls. But Liberian girls face far greater life and death challenges, more daunting than education.
OP-ED: Michelle Obama’s Visit Follows Historical Template of Superficial US Engagement in Liberia
On Monday, Michelle Obama, with daughters Malia and Sasha in tow, touches down in Liberia for a day. The US first lady will not set foot in the capital, her two public events will be at a school in Unification Town and at the Peace Corps training facility in Kakata. No sooner will the Obama’s have arrived and they will be on their way to Morocco.
OP-ED: Systemic Discrimination and Dysfunction Exacerbates Refugee Crisis
As our world faces the worst refugee crisis in history, the best responses have been largely self-serving and as a consequence, have exacerbated and not solved the problem.
OP-ED: My Caseworker Experience in West Africa
In July of 2001, I was renting an apartment in Dakar, Senegal, and rapidly running through my hard earned savings from DJ work and driving a taxicab in Chicago, my hometown. I was having a blast, taking long train rides to Bamako, Mali, learning French with the English majors at Cheikh Anta Diop University, exploring Dakar nightlife, collecting Senegalese Hip-Hop and Mbalax music on cassettes and CDs, visiting the beaches in Casamance, southern Senegal, but I was also going broke.