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Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey Share The first thing I would like to do in this brief statement on the 40-year History of Liberia’s Daily ObserverNewspaper is to give thanks to Almighty God for giving Mae Gene and me, in January 1977, as we were coming to the close of our careers in Nairobi, Kenya, the idea of returning home to start Liberia’s first independent daily newspaper. I remember vividly when we first started dating in 1970 that we conceived the idea of publishing a magazine in Liberia. We were not sure as to whether it would be one on politics or fashion or both. God blessed our relationship with consummation in marriage, on July 17, 1971. July 17 this year will make us 50 years married. To God Be the Glory! And thank you, Mae Gene! ....
Share MONROVIA – The Publisher of Liberia’s first independent newspaper, Mr. Kenneth Y. Best, has recounted the “costly pains and challenges” him and several of his staffs suffered and encountered for establishing a news organ and reporting critical and balance stories in keeping with their reportorial duties in the country. The Daily Observer newspaper was established in January 1981 during the brutal and cruel regime of military dictator Samuel K. Doe. Mr. Best recalled that the beginning of the paper second month in existence, the “erratic, powerful and tyrannical Justice Minister, Chea Cheapoo” during the Doe, summoned him at his office on a Monday morning, and with loaded guns pointed at him from every direction and blasted for nearly two hours, because his paper had published a story about that was displeasing to him. ....
The glider spun around and around its axis while Flight Sergeant Dow stared helplessly from the tiny aircraft’s window, the ground coming into sharper focus with each spin. Sgt. Dow remembers acutely his ‘scariest moment’ in a glider, but shrugs it off. “Our flight instructor was just demonstrating what it looks like, so that we can identify the problem and recover from it.” The 16-year-old air cadet has been soaring in the tiny planes since the age of 12 and says he knew from day one he belonged among the birds. “My first word was ‘airplane, ” he said with a laugh. “Right from the beginning I knew I wanted to be a pilot… and I knew nothing was going to stop me.” ....