Liberia
- ISBN-10
- 0836823664
- ISBN-13
- 9780836823660
- Series
- Liberia
- Category
- Liberia
- Pages
- 100
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Gareth Stevens
- Author
- Paul Rozario
Description
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.
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