Liberia

by Rozario, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780836823660
• ISBN10: 0836823664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib

Summary

Liberia was a colony for freed and freeborn African Americans for twenty-five years before becoming the first republic on the African continent in 1847. Today, Liberia is recovering from over twenty years of violence, which include seven years of civil war (1989-1996). From depleted iron ore mines to enviable diamond reserves, from indiscriminate logging to the world's largest rubber plantation, from the shrieking pepper bird to the docile pygmy hippopotamus, this book is a spirited investigation of the sharp contrasts that define the Liberian land and its people. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

An Overview of Liberia	p. 5
Geography	p. 6
History	p. 10
Government and the Economy	p. 16
People and Lifestyle	p. 20
Language and Literature	p. 28
Arts	p. 30
Leisure and Festivals	p. 34
Food	p. 40
A Closer Look at Liberia	p. 43
The American Colonization Society	p. 44
Birds of Liberia	p. 46
Dan Masks	p. 48
Diamonds: A Controversial Resource	p. 50
Indigenous Alphabets	p. 52
Joseph Jenkins Roberts	p. 54
The Kpelle	p. 56
Liberian Folktales	p. 58
Logging and the Environment	p. 60
Mining	p. 62
Monrovia	p. 64
The River Horse	p. 66
Rubber	p. 68
Vai Arts	p. 70
William Tubman	p. 72
Relations with North America	p. 75
For More Information ...
Full-color map	p. 86
Black-and-white reproducible map	p. 88
Liberia at a Glance	p. 90
Glossary	p. 92
Books, Videos, Web Sites	p. 94
Index	p. 95
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