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 authored and co-authored numerous works on Liberia and the African continent including Black Colonialism: The Americo-Liberian Scramble for the Hinterland, 1985; Africans on African-Americans: The Creation and Uses of an African-American Myth, 1997; and, The Emergence of the New African States, Unit 1: Introduction to the History of Africa, co-authored with Nehemia Levtzion. He was the author of many articles published in the Liberian Studies Journal.
