The truth is Liberians have been slapped in the face, with something so terribly tragic, obscene, nauseating, and dangerous in George Weah…We need change, and George Weah is less of our problem than we’re to ourselves. Continue Reading
Since rape was declared a national emergency, it has been given even less attention by the president and officials of government. I am very disappointed in the president and the Liberian legislature. They have failed women and girls in this country. There’s absolutely no vision for the protection of women and children in Liberia. Year in and out, they continue to be vulnerable. They are at high risk in our society, yet we don’t see their protection as a priority. Continue Reading
In 2014, when I was 8 years old, my father died from Ebola. My mother could not afford my education, so she sent me to stay with her brother. At first things were good, but as time went by, he started forceably having sex with me (i.e. raping me). Continue Reading
As we have seen over the last few days, people are reducing the anti-rape protests in the country to individuals rather than the cause. This reductionism trivializes the problem of rape, blinds us to the issues causing the protests, and explains why they are not taken seriously. Continue Reading
Where has your “Feminist in Chief” cape been when Liberian women dressed in Black every Thursday for the last few years to call attention to this issue? Where was it yesterday and today, August 25 & 26, 2020, when hundreds of protestors came to give you our petition to end rape in Liberia and you were nowhere to be found, even though you were informed beforehand? Continue Reading
My friend was right. If Liberia had a culture where we vehemently confronted our traumas, we would have leveraged the skills and strategies we gathered from dealing with Ebola. Those strategies would have urged our leaders to firmly protect our borders, put in place measures to strengthen our health sector. But instead, our borders were left vulnerable. Our leaders underestimated the intensity of the Coronavirus. Continue Reading
We elect someone that we believed “has a heart for Liberia,” and we are still subjugated to the same repetitive norm of failed leadership and total hardship. Continue Reading
We all remember the second half of 2017, us young people felt the strong need to remind our parents and aunties, who were acting like they could dictate our future, that young people actually make up the majority of the… Continue Reading
