- 3 min
"Our Daddy Nah Come."
The three-and-a-half miles from Belefuani to Warta seemed more like a path where elephants trampled than an actual road. Our bus crept...
- 3 min
Brown Girl in the Ring
Gone were the days of marching through the sweltering heat or heavy downpours to catch a taxi or win sympathy from some kind soul...
- 3 min
White People Smell like Wet chicken.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Daddy said it was time to butcher the old bird, and if I wanted to, I could watch. And I wanted to.
- 3 min
Dr. Justin Obi's Hanging - Part II
The murders in November of 1969 of the American-born Bishop, Rev. Dillard Brown, and his district secretary, a Syrian, infuriated the...
- 5 min
Dr. Justin Obi's Hanging - Part I
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Every night, Bertie and I knelt over Mommy's custom-made couch in our living room and recited the same prayers. With the precision of a...
- 4 min
Our Ready Made Backyard Friend
We went to bed without eating the first night we moved into our grand green home. The only food in the house was a twenty-five-pound bag...
- 5 min
Swamp Life
Adventures for two little girls in the swamp just outside their yard in Liberia.
- 2 min
Africa's Embrace
I believed Africa longed for me from the beginning. This is what I sensed when I squatted on the ground that day.
- 4 min
Girls Don't Wear Pants
A little girl wants to wear a shiny green corduroy pantsuit, but her daddy doesn't believe girls should wear pants.
- 4 min
Who The Hell Goes to Liberia?
~ June 1982 "Who the hell goes to Liberia?" The question hurled at me from the ticket counter like a fiery dart—the added expletive...
- 3 min
I Hold Your Foot
After leaving the US passport agency, our taxi pulled up to a forties-style bungalow in the 16th Street Heights neighborhood of...
- 4 min
The Dreamer
Atlanta, Ga. April, 1968 I saw a man lying in a long box, his face adorned with dark makeup carefully applied around his lower right jaw....