Can someone recommend books, lectures, movies, etc on the history of Liberia?
Liberia, that country which was founded by newly emancipated African Americans "going back home"; when they got there they established a plantation economy that exploited and even enslaved the natives all the same. Emancipation and independence do not equal decolonization.
Liberia, whose history shows you that even "returned natives" can be colonizers; and that systems of injustice can become so deeply impressed into our souls that even when we escape them, we replay them, just with us on top this time around.
Liberia, whose history I read as a Palestinian whose country was taken by its own returned natives, who had just arisen from a history of deep persecution, but when they got there they decided to recreate the system of injustice, just with us on the bottom this time around.
So yes, give me books to read about Liberia.
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