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Liberia has come a long way, writes Tiko Okoye
Once upon a time, as the storyline goes, a group of eminent white American citizens – including literary giants like Daniel Webster and Francis Scott Key, and political titans like Presidents Andrew Jackson and James Monroe – reached a consensus that any efforts to create a truly integrated America with the formal abolition of slavery would amount to just a pipedream. They then decided to register an organization known as the American Colonization Society (ACS) that purchased a large tract of land along the West African coast from the indigenous population, where freed black slaves from the United States, the West Indies, and intercepted slave ships, would be resettled.
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The Black Hammer Organization, a communist group that advertises itself as a “symbol of hope for the colonized working class,” posted online that they were burning copies of Frank’s diary to keep warm in the mountains of the Centennial State.
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