Across the Landscape

Abstract

A selection of writings and speeches on the political evolution of the West African Republic of Liberia from 1978 to 2001 by a Liberian political activist who has been at the centre of the political developments in that country during the period covered.

About the Author

H. Boima Fahnbulleh was born in 1949 and educated in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya and the United Staes. He graduated from Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone after reading philosophy, politics and history. He took a graduate degree in politics at Howard University and finished his education at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where he earned a doctorate in political philosophy and international politics.

He has lectured at the University of Liberia and also served as a minister of education and foreign affairs of Liberia between 1978 and 1983.

He lived in exile in Africa and Europe from 1983 to 1990 and from 1997 to the present. He has written and lectured extensively on Liberian politics over the years and is at present working on several manuscripts on the military era, the civil war and the involvement of the West African Community in the search for peace in Liberia.

He lives in London with his family.