[TriLUG] Penguins in the desert

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Greg Brown wrote:

> Liberia?

my son's soccer coach is from Liberia. He left after the 
start of the 1990 civil war. From him I learned there that 
Liberia is a classed society. The rich people (5% of the 
population - descendants of the slaves from the US) live in 
Monrovia. The rest live and work in plantations owned by the 
rich people under conditions similar to those in the south 
before the US civil war. Quite what's going on there now I 
don't know, but this is a start.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia

Anyhow be sensitive to the existance of the haves and the 
have-nots. It's not a homogenious society.

The coach wrote a book about Liberia in the era 
leading up to the Civil War

"Baa Salaka" - Dunstan MacCauley (it's in English)

if you want to learn more about the politics and 
society. It's at B&N.

Joe

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