Is Liberia tearing down its history?

Liberia’s government is leading a campaign to get African Americans to come and settle there, offering citizenships and a “chance to reconnect with their roots”.

This movement is not new, with freed enslaved people from the US having arrived some 200 years ago to build the colony that became the Republic of Liberia.

This set off a troubled period in Liberia’s history as the new arrivals clashed with the Indigenous tribes.

Memories of that time, and the lessons they teach, are what local architects want to protect now as they try to stop the destruction of old properties to make way for more new arrivals.


Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports from the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

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