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The Liberian Tragedy: Personal Experiences and Reflections on the Civil War; Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance; African Stories

The Liberian Tragedy: Personal Experiences and Reflections on the Civil War; Africa and the... Book Reviews / African and Asian Studies 7 (2008) 307-321 319 T. Nelson Williams, Sr. Th e Liberian Tragedy: Personal Experiences and Reflections on the Civil War. Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse, 2006; xiv; 111 pages; price not stated. E. Kofi Agorsah & G. Tucker Childs, Editors. Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance . Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse 2006; xxix, 299 pages; price not stated. Ama Ata Aidoo, Editor. African Stories. Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke Pub- lishing Ltd., 2006; xiv, 249 pages, paperback. Th ere is a common intellectual as well as historical- cum- cultural thread binding the publi- cations reviewed here. To a large extent, Th e Liberian Tragedy , by Indiana University- educated T. Nelson Williams, Sr. of Liberia, and Africa and the Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation , by Portland State University Professors E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs have simi- larities in content and approach. For example, Williams, an indigenous Liberian from the industrious Bassa ethnic group, has very usefully demonstrated how years of resistance on the part of the indigenous Libe- rian population led to the April 1980 anti-Americo-Liberian coup d’etat , which created what he aptly describes, in his 111-page book as “the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African and Asian Studies Brill

The Liberian Tragedy: Personal Experiences and Reflections on the Civil War; Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance; African Stories

Ejigiri, Damien; Smith, Dorothy
African and Asian Studies , Volume 7 (2-3): 3 – Jan 1, 2008
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Book Reviews / African and Asian Studies 7 (2008) 307-321 319 T. Nelson Williams, Sr. Th e Liberian Tragedy: Personal Experiences and Reflections on the Civil War. Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse, 2006; xiv; 111 pages; price not stated. E. Kofi Agorsah & G. Tucker Childs, Editors. Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance . Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse 2006; xxix, 299 pages; price not stated. Ama Ata Aidoo, Editor. African Stories. Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke Pub- lishing Ltd., 2006; xiv, 249 pages, paperback. Th ere is a common intellectual as well as historical- cum- cultural thread binding the publi- cations reviewed here. To a large extent, Th e Liberian Tragedy , by Indiana University- educated T. Nelson Williams, Sr. of Liberia, and Africa and the Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation , by Portland State University Professors E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs have simi- larities in content and approach. For example, Williams, an indigenous Liberian from the industrious Bassa ethnic group, has very usefully demonstrated how years of resistance on the part of the indigenous Libe- rian population led to the April 1980 anti-Americo-Liberian coup d’etat , which created what he aptly describes, in his 111-page book as “the

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