THE TRICOLOR AND THE LONE STAR: A HISTORY OF FRANCO-LIBERIAN RELATIONS, 1847-1930Like the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, France played an important role in Liberia's domestic and foreign affairs in
This history, though not singular, underscores how U.S. foreign policy has functioned as a driver of displacement, generating migrants from the very sites of its own imperial interests. As such, Liberia’s civil war, fueled by instability linked to U.S. foreign policy in Africa, with its ...
William V. S. Tubman was a statesman whose 27 years as Liberia’s 17th president constituted the longest tenure in that office in the history of Africa’s first republic (proclaimed in 1847). He was responsible for numerous reforms and social policies, i