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Our trip was pleasant, exciting, and full of novelties. I would have enjoyed it much more had my thoughts not lingered constantly on Mama Jassa. I kept wondering what she was likely to be doing at such and such a time, and who would take my place with her reminding her of the various items she would have on the calendar for the day. Meanwhile, my brothers and I were slowly becoming acquainted.
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[It is common knowledge that democracy in Liberia was just a sham as it excluded the “natives” of the interior most of the time. One of the most scathing criticisms is from Tuan Wreh, The Love of Liberty… (London: C Hurst, 1976). Eds.]
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© 2013 Fatima Massaquoi, Vivian Seton, Konrad Tuchscherer and Arthur Abraham
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Massaquoi, F., Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (2013). Life in Monrovia. In: Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (eds) The Autobiography of an African Princess. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137102508_6
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