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"Liberia is a West African country whose history is intricately tied to America's past and Africa's future. Unique in its origins as a colony for resettling free blacks from the United States, the nation nevertheless experienced a progressive centralization of state power closely resembling the typical postcolonial political order in Africa."--BOOK JACKET. "Amos Sawyer is himself a part of Liberian history. As president, and before that as a political scientist and a citizen active in academic and civic affairs in his country, he has seen events there from an extraordinary perspective. In this deeply engrossing book, he describes how autocratic control emerged from a tradition of patrimonial authority, with the prerogatives of governance persistently centralized and concentrated in the hands of successive presidents. This pattern of autocracy, which was not in itself despotic, culminated in the military dictatorship of Samuel K. Doe. Ultimately, the country threw off tyranny only through cruel civil conflict."--BOOK JACKET. "What happened to the idea of Liberia, when settler society encountered indigenous West African cultures and, abroad, faced unsteady support of its national aut

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Author

Amos Sawyer

Publisher

I C S Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558151642

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Politics