I take it you're in Monrovia?
So Liberia was on that c00n shyt too..:mjcry:
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I take it you're in Monrovia?
LiberianGirl
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Our food is the best in the world nobody can convince me otherwise...it's spicy, lots of greens and meat, rice with almost everything
There's a lot of theft here (electronics mostly), but violent crimes are relatively low...car jackings are non-existent
A lot of home invasions but a lot of people have barbed wire fences, window bars, metal doors, security etc.
Liberians LOVE foreigners especially black Americans
Yes you have those that criticize no matter what, but for the most part they love foreigners here...especially the younger generation, they idolize black American culture
But I am NOT going to lie they put the non-black visitors on a pedestal here and I have cussed out folks at a few restaurants and hotels here because of it
Outside of the capital, my fav places were Ganta, Buchannan, and Harper
LiberianGirl
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LiberianGirl
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Sure no problem
How are the relationships between native Liberians and Africo- Liberians now? Do they mingle now? How can you even tell each other apart
Tommy Knocks
retired
Nice I was in Kinshasa, I had problems with the power grid, sometimes electricity would just cut off for 6 hours, my aunt had a generator but sometimes she made me turn off my electronics to save some juice. how is it out there? the internet was pretty slow too, but I would go over to a hotel like the Hotel Amaritsah and steal their wifi for an hour while I check my email and fb. lol.
Yea, Americo Liberians were on that c00n Time heavy, many indigenous people had to change their names to American names because they would be discriminated against. The Americo's c00ning is why the USA was able to pop off the Civil Wars there, because even though Liberia was booming Economically the discrimination was real so the US put so called indigenous people in power after the assignation of of Pres.Tolbert, to make it look like Doe and soon after Charles Taylor would have the indigenous peoples interest in mind, but that failed.
That aside, Pan Africanism was birthed in Liberia by Edward Blayden who was an Americo Liberian.
That aside, Pan Africanism was birthed in Liberia by Edward Blayden who was an Americo Liberian.
aint no Americo Liberians in Liberia, they all bounced when the first war popped off. If there are any there now they are a super tiny #
Capo Dei Capi
Fukk a studio thug, I'm a skinny jeans bigot
He wasn't talking about you breh. He was talking about the clowns on here who like to call Africans Afric00ns smhAware that some AAs are c00ns?
We already know that
Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
Suprised many ppl didn't know this.
I remember many times on the "moving to Africa" threads a lot of folks were saying moving / living in Africa isnt a good idea because "look at Liberia, it hasn't worked" (paraphrasing). That had me like
Liberia, overall, is were its at because of what the OP posted: the Americo-Liberians pulled a page off the treatment they received in the US and did it to the locals, rather than sharing power with them OR assimilating with them (it's their land). Animosity built up and then the civil wars broke out in the 80s and onward.
Think about it, if Liberia was well run, that could've been the black diaspora's Israel right there. But alas, other ppl had different agendas.
I remember many times on the "moving to Africa" threads a lot of folks were saying moving / living in Africa isnt a good idea because "look at Liberia, it hasn't worked" (paraphrasing). That had me like
Liberia, overall, is were its at because of what the OP posted: the Americo-Liberians pulled a page off the treatment they received in the US and did it to the locals, rather than sharing power with them OR assimilating with them (it's their land). Animosity built up and then the civil wars broke out in the 80s and onward.
Think about it, if Liberia was well run, that could've been the black diaspora's Israel right there. But alas, other ppl had different agendas.
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Suprised many ppl didn't know this.
I remember many times on the "moving to Africa" threads a lot of folks were saying moving / living in Africa isnt a good idea because "look at Liberia, it hasn't worked" (paraphrasing). That had me like
Liberia, overall, is were its at because of what the OP posted: the Americo-Liberians pulled a page from the treatment they received in the US and did it to the locals, rather than sharing power with them OR assimilating with them (it's their land).
Think about it, if Liberia was well run, that could've been the black diaspora's Israel right there. But alas, other ppl had different agendas.
The thing is, discrimination aside, Liberia was advanced as hell in the 50s-70s. It wasn't until Liberia began to stand more independent that they became a threat (US thought they could potentially side with the Soviets). My mom was like Liberia was literally called Little America as they enjoyed pretty much the same fashions,culture,etc (of course with a mix of their indigenous culture). Liberia was one of the few places in Africa with an International Airport. The Civil War literally set the country back 100 yrs.
Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
Indeed, it's a shame.
The civil war is a big big reason why Ebola was so big in the country: whatever medical infrastructure the country had was destroy. This when Ebola hits (first time it hits west Africa in fact), Liberia simply wasn't ready.
EDIT: on my previous post I said "If Liberia was well run." What I was trying to say is if Liberia, (The Americo-Liberians specifically) handled the issue with the indigenous people far better, Liberia would be a very different place today.
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Yeah I was surprised to learn they had the same GDP as Japan in the 70s
Yea, The war destroyed Liberias infrastructure, they just built a legit hospital in my pops home town, but still it wasn't enough to handle something like Ebola. Treating people wasn't really the issue it was containing it and keeping track of people who had it. One thing I will say is there were many cases of people self treating and actually having success. Liberia probably has one of the most unique dynamics of West Africa, because of its history it probably has the LEAST amount of Self hating blacks, compared to somewhere like Nigeria where people are on that
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Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
Yeah I was surprised to learn they had the same GDP as Japan in the 70s
Really now?
@CashmereEsquire and @LiberianGirl...in terms of investment opportunities, what's the country looking like in that regard? From the outside looking in, infrastructure appears to be the main concern. I hope I'm phrasing my question properly.
Also heard that Firestone has a large influence in the country, is that the case?