The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

MONROVIA - A pulpit is an unusual place for a political indictment. Tiawan Saye Gongloe chose it deliberately. Marking the 179th Independence Day, he spoke at Restoration Baptist Church. There the senior lawyer recast corruption not as a…

MONROVIA - Former Liberia Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Atty. Isaac W. Jackson Jr., has called on the Office of the Ombudsman to launch an independent investigation into allegations contained in…

MONROVIA - The dedication of the 81-kilometer Gbarnga–Salayea Road marks a significant milestone in Liberia’s ongoing infrastructure and economic development drive, with Chinese Ambassador Yin Chengwu describing the project as more than a…

There are orations a nation forgets by nightfall, and there are those it carries home in its chest — and by every account rippling out of Grand Bassa, Dr. Herbert Brewer delivered the latter. Rising as National Orator before a hushed and…

MONROVIA - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai used Liberia's 179th Independence Anniversary to redirect the national conversation. He steered the anniversary away from ceremony toward a contest over the country's historical memory. Speaking in…

MONROVIA - A few carefully chosen sentences from Washington have carried outsized diplomatic weight this Independence season. United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio marked Liberia's 179th anniversary with a message reaffirming…

MONROVIA - Liberia's Independence Thanksgiving turned inward this year, trading ceremony for a sermon on national soul-searching. The message came from Rev. Paula White-Cain, senior adviser to President Donald Trump's White House Faith…

MONROVIA - As Liberia marked 179 years of independence, businessman and political figure Musa Hassan Bility used the occasion to argue that the country is celebrating an anniversary it has not yet earned. In a widely circulated…

MONROVIA - A birthday note has become an unlikely vehicle for political reconciliation in a deeply polarized Liberia. Congress for Democratic Change Secretary General Jefferson Tamba Koijee has publicly forgiven a former critic. His…

MONROVIA - The scientist who delivered Liberia’s 169th Independence Day oration has used the nation’s 179th anniversary to warn that the republic is still “straddled” by the vices of its past. In an Independence Day message to the nation,…