Nancy Bohn Doe, wife of Former Liberian President Samuel K . Doe, died on May 21, 2025 . She was 76 years old .

From times existing beyond the reach of memory, humans have been honoring their dead. In Rome and ancient Greece, stretching far back into antiquity–to the Sumerians, Mesopotamians and Egyptians–large ...

Things fell apart finally for the family when rebels entered the country on Christmas Eve in 1989 . Given that her husband ...

But it was just simple - "The Exclusion Theory." When the Free Blacks or Free Slaves, later known as Americo-Liberians, established what was termed as a "Racial Segregation System", similar to ...

The history of Africa has been shaped through the emergence of various young leaders, either through democratic elections or through military coups. These leaders have faced crises and challenges ...

As was plainly evident in several photographs that Pelham was poring over that day in Monrovia, many of the original settlers, known as Americo-Liberians, assumed some of the ways of Southern ...

In another instance, she briefly explains that Americo-Liberians (the descendants of freed American slaves) did not incorporate the Liberian natives into their society, but fails to mention that ...

They set up a system of cultural and racial segregation and oppression that saw the minority Americo-Liberian population at the top and the majority indigenous Black population at the bottom ...

Associated Press The war’s roots were entwined in Liberia’s past as a nation founded by freed American slaves, whose descendants, known as Americo-Liberians, tightly held political and ...

He champions the natives against the frock-coated, white-helmeted elite of Americo-Liberians, to whom he is known as “That Man in the Executive Mansion.” Last week, Monrovia was flag-decked ...

The second project is centered around ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2022 and 2023 with Americo-Liberian descendants of formerly enslaved African-Americans involved in a reverse African diaspora ...