Liberia : : The Violence of Democracy / / Raymond Leslie Buell, Mary H. Moran.
Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization by...
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