Bicentennial Celebration - Liberia
Liberia Kicks off Bicentennial Celebrating Arrival of Black Americans By Reuters
Liberia President George Weah speaks during the 75th anniversary celebrations of UNESCO at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, November 12, 2021. Julien de Rosa/ Pool via REUTERS
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resident George Weah on Monday (February 14th) called on Liberians to embrace unity and reconciliation as
he launched year-long celebrations of the bicentennial of the arrival of the first free Black Americans in 1822. The former slaves arrived in Providence Island, now the capital Monrovia, in 1822, as part of a mission by the American Colonization Society, which aimed to reduce the number of free Blacks in the U.S. by settling them in Africa. The Republic of Liberia was founded in 1847, the second Black republic in the world at the time, after Haiti. Addressing a crowd at Monrovia’s main soccer
Two views of Monrovia, Liberia (Adobe Stock) 22 | ABA Publications | Africa TRAVEL | March 2022
