Liberia is facing an unprecedented outbreak of COVID and we need your help to continue working alongside partners to send much needed supplies, such as oxygen regulators, to Liberia. Cori Maund & Isaac Doss, Jim & Pat McGeorge, [...]
“People are dying everywhere!” was the subject of an email message received by FOL members Angene and Jack Wilson late in June. Monrovia was experiencing a sudden spike in Covid-19 deaths due to the deadly [...]
The Liberian Studies Association announces with deep sadness the passing of Yekutiel Gershoni, Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University and former President of the Liberian Studies Association. Professor Gershoni [...]
Nathaniel Kim served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lofa County from 2017 to 2019. His blog, Innate Musings, is full of beautifully written, funny, thought- provoking essays. He has also been a guest writer for [...]
Doorey Chung, a member of the LR-6 cohort, served in Grand Gedeh County, Liberia from 2016 to 2018. In honor of Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month in 2018, Peace Corps shared his story. Here is [...]
On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy issued an executive order establishing the Peace Corps as a federal agency within the State Department. Angene Hopkins Wilson and Jack Hopkins got accepted into the program and in 1962 were [...]
Dr. Raj Panjabi has been appointed by President Joe Biden as his Malaria Coordinator to lead the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative. Dr. Panjabi grew up in Liberia, fleeing when he was 9 years old to escape [...]
Liberia Studies Association leader Dr. Elwood Dunn sadly lost his wife of nearly 50 years. Rev. Dr. Matilda Eileen Greene Dunn, born in Greenville, Sinoe County, Liberia, passed on January 4, 2020, at their home [...]
Liberians approved dual citizenship in the December 8 election according to ballots counted from five counties so far. Robtel Neajai Pailey of the Liberian Studies Association has written a book on how dual citizenship impacts [...]
Reading by: Banti NI Zehyoue (Doctoral Candidate, Kennesaw State College and LSA Board Member) Reading to: Stephen-Eden Quilah Acqui Marvie III Written by: Harriet Agyemang and Duah D. Othniel Illustrated by: Brima Woloba LISTEN
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