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Recommended English books written by authors from Liberia (5)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Liberia for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".

1.

Land of My Fathers by Vamba Sherif EN

0 Ratings
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
Gripping story of conflict and turmoil in Liberia.

2.

Mighty Be Our Powers : How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
Recounts the experiences of a Liberian activist as she discusses how she united Christian and Muslim women to campaign for an end to war in her nation.

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She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
Wayetu Moore is an inspiration . . . her book is a gift Imbolo Mbue The book is unforgettable . . . irresistibly evocative and fierce. She Would Be King is a masterfully wrought alternate history of magical black resistance Star Tribune This novel dazzles with beauty and transcendent, transformative humanity Sarah Jessica Parker In the west African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she survives to discover a new life with a group of African American settlers in the colony of Monrovia. Then Gbessa ... continue

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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across ... continue

5.

The House at Sugar Beach : In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.