View the February 9, 2022, webinar "Repatriates, Recaptives and African Abolitionists: The Untold Story of Liberia’s Founding in 1822", led by C. Patrick Burrowes. Dr. Burrowes uncovered in August 2021 a handwritten document, missing since [...]
We wish you a festive holiday season and a peaceful New Year in the spirit of unity.
Some Liberians see Thanksgiving as a holiday imposed by 19th century settlers from the U.S. And they question why they should celebrate an imported holiday. Brenda Moore, the founder of KEEP, has Americo-Liberian [...]
With the help of YOU, Friends of Liberia has raised over $32,000. Coupled with the $25,000 match money from Jim and Pat McGeorge, Cori Maund and Isaac Doss, we have over $50,000 to [...]
Almost all Liberian cocoa is now sold on the bulk market for use in the cosmetics industry. Yet Liberian cocoa possesses many characteristics that appeal to specialty buyers, setting it apart from its neighboring global giants, [...]
“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 [...]
Presentations on creating structures and favorable conditions that lead to a functional state can now be viewed on the LSA website.
To provide hair dressing, soap making and bean bag production skill training to 250 young adults and school age girls in the Soul Clinic Community, FOL has awarded a small grant to our in-country partner, [...]
To extend income opportunities from a new rice mill built by the Pengia Village Women’s Farming Cooperative in Bong County, FOL has awarded a small grant to our in-country partner, Kpo’ma Women, Inc., to help [...]