a short intro to liberia

my temptation is to write about how liberia was formed a colonial society in the united states to repatriate emancipated slaves and other african americans to africa or to tell of it being the first and oldest african republic or how many liberians wanted to create an america in africa or how devolved into fifteen years of civil war that devastated the all aspects of the country or to talk about the relatively new first democratically elected woman head of state in africa. but i will refrain. there are many websites that can give you all the information you want if you are so interested.
czech these out:

• http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/6618.htm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1043500.stm
• http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/liberia/history.htm

there are many more beyond these.

what i have found interesting, especially considering world history, it liberia's connections to the usa, slavery, wwII, and many other things. liberia plays a tangential role in the movie blood diamond that came out recently. taylor, who was the president of liberia, and who is now on trial at the hague, is responsible for much of the fighting and horror that occured in neighboring sierra leone. "blood diamonds" mined in s.l. were sold over the border in liberia...