Introduction, part 1

Many of the conflicts in Africa, as I observe, have roots of bitterness and unforgiveness. This has led to thousands of deaths in Africa. Some of the conflicts can be traced as far back to a conflict that was never settled from the origin of the nation. Unresolved issues lead to genocides, amputations, tribal wars and all types of unspeakable violence. This can clearly be seen in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and many others including my own country of Liberia, whose conflicts roots can be traced from even before the founding of the nation.

Various tribes fought each other and among themselves selling each other and sometimes their own children to be carried to the west as slaves. Years later, freed slaves from America brought over by the American Colonization Society in 1820 founded my country, Liberia. The settlers met resistance from the natives. After living as slaves for many years and seeing how cruel some masters could be to them, they returned to Liberia and brought the same system – refusing to allow natives to hold leadership positions in certain churches, attend certain schools, etc – the same as their former slave masters did to them.

To be continued…

© 2008, Munty Teahn