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A Cellcom Liberia antenna in Monrovia (2009). Mass media in Liberia include the press, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Much of Liberia's communications infrastructure was destroyed or plundered during the two civil wars (1989–1996 and 1999–2003). [1]
Art and Life in Africa : Liberia; History of Liberia: a Timeline, from Library of Congress Archived April 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine; Political Resources on the Net: Liberia Archived September 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine; Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party at Project Gutenberg by Martin Delany
The Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) is a state-owned radio and television network in Liberia. Founded as a corporation in 1960, the network was owned and operated by Rediffusion until 1968, when management passed to the Government of Liberia .
Numerous newspapers, radio stations and TV programs are broadcast and can be heard in the capital Monrovia, coastal cities and towns and countryside. Radio, newspapers and online news articles are the main form of mass communication in Liberia in recent years, surpassing TV stations as the most accessible forms of media to Liberians.
In Liberia, the native Africans resisted the expansion of the colonists, resulting in many armed conflicts between them. Nevertheless, in the next decade 2,638 African Americans migrated to the area. Also, the colony entered an agreement with the U.S. Government to accept freed slaves who were taken from illegal slave ships.
Liberia's lower house on Tuesday voted to establish a war crimes court, moving a step closer to bringing overdue justice for the victims of serious abuses committed during the West African country ...
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.
Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office Monday after his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, who at age 79 has become the country's oldest president, promised to ...