Author: Lennart Dodoo

From its founding in Bamako in May 1975, ECOWAS – Economic Community of West African States comprising 15 member states – strived to create a community of people, breaking colonial barriers towards economic integration. It was seen as a model on the continent. From free movement to coining a single currency for its 400 million people to a free trade zone, ECOWAS was on its way to transform the subcontinent. However, these “noble” ambitions ran contrary to the interests of France and Ivory Coast.

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Some people are celebrating the Selling of Lives, as in the Slave Trade, not realizing that only Our Creator gives Lives and only Our Creator takes Lives without selling or buying Lives. There is a meaningful Liberian expression: if your house does not sell you, the street will not buy you. Millions of Africans were bought as slaves from Africa by slave buyers from America because there were slave sellers in Africa.

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The Oxford dictionary defines bicentennial as “the two-hundredth anniversary of a significant event.” This definition barely scratches the surface of the bicentennial Liberians are now poised to commemorate. A country’s bicentennial is a momentous milestone. Two hundred years of existence and survival against extraordinary odds. Liberia’s bicentennial is a feat of no small measure for this republic had labor pains that few countries could have survived. Battered, bruised, bowed, in a world that was once eager to write Liberia’s epitaph before its birth. Liberia trod gingerly amongst nations intent on its demise. Our country bargained, gave up territories (parts of…

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MONROVIA – The Bicentennial Celebration which tends to commemorate 200 years since freed slaves from America settled on the Providence Island in search of true freedom is taking the Liberia-America relationship to another level – even to the level where more sanctions on Liberian leaders and officials of government for corruption, sabotaging the economy and disrupting the peace of the country is being recommended at the U.S House of Representatives.

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