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 the over eight decades that separated the Declaration of Independence of 1847 and ...
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