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Liberia is a founding member of the United Nations (see Permanent Representative of Liberia to the United Nations) and its specialized agencies and is a member of the African Union (AU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), African Development Bank (ADB), Mano River Union (MRU) and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Liberia–Libya relations have historically revolved around the respective policies of Libya and the Republic of Liberia toward external influence in Africa. This history is in large part founded in Liberia's commitments to its original sponsor, the United States, and the pan-African unity ambitions of Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi.
Liberia: The History of the First African Republic. New York: Fountainhead Publishers', Inc. Ciment, James. Another America: The story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it (Hill and Wang, 2013). Clegg III, Claude Andrew. The price of liberty: African Americans and the making of Liberia (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009). Cooper ...
Liberia, [a] officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km 2). The ...
Americo-Liberian people (also known as Congo people or Congau people), [2] are a Liberian ethnic group of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and liberated African origin. Americo-Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans who emigrated in the 19th century to become the founders of the state of Liberia.
Afrocentricity was coined to evoke "African-centeredness", and, as a unifying paradigm, draws from the foundational scholarship of Africana studies and African studies. [3] [9] Those who identify as specialists in Afrocentricity, including historians, philosophers, and sociologists, call themselves "Africologists" [10] [11] or "Afrocentrists."
In 1960 Ethiopia and Liberia, the only two other former League of Nations member states in Africa, petitioned the Hague to rule in a binding decision that the league mandate was still in force and to hold South Africa responsible for failure to provide the highest material and moral welfare of black South West Africans.
The Mano River Union Secretariat is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, [4] with offices in Conakry, Guinea and Monrovia, Liberia. [3] In April 2016 the Union announced plans to form a Mano River Union Parliament, where legislators from the four member states will work to coordinate national legislation on matters of regional importance. [ 7 ]