Liberia: Dutch economist Fred van der Kraaij’s New Book Unravels A Fifty-Year Investigation Rewriting the Republic’s Founding Myth

Monrovia – There’s a line about Liberia that gets repeated so often it has hardened into fact: alone among African nations, it was never colonized.

Fred van der Kraaij doesn’t buy it, and he’s spent nearly 240 pages — a third of them notes, bibliography, and index — building the case against it.

Liberia was […] ...