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In 1920, C.D.B. King, runningon the WhigPartyticket, was elected president of the Republic of Liberia, defeating the People’s Party. A new era began in the history of Liberia with various political appointments. His cabinet and administration as a whole included many segments of the Liberian population who were now involved in shaping the destiny of the state. Father had been instrumental in acquiring native votes for the Whig Party, and as a result was given a responsible position in the new government as consul general to Germany.
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[These steatite (soapstone) figures, known throughout Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia and usually termed “nomoli” (nomoli) probably date to a period between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries AD. They were carved by the ancestors of related Mel-speaking peoples (sometimes described as forming a “Sape Confederation”) who are thought to have been the original inhabitants of the area, such as the Temne, Baga, Kissi, and Sherbro-Bullom. The figures, therefore, are “found,” not “made,” by peoples like the Kissi, the Vai, and Mende, who occupy the territory today and who latterly incorporated the stones into their belief systems. Historical accounts of the region have contended that the displacement of the so-called Sape Confederation was a result of the Mani invasions of the mid-sixteenth century, at which time related Manding peoples became new occupants of the land. The Mani invasions are characterized by the Vai in the oral tradition relating to the trek of “Kamala the Younger,” discussed by Fatima Massaquoi earlier in this autobiography. For illustrations and basic information on the nomoli, see A. Tagliaferri and A. Hammacher, Fabulous Ancestors: Stone Carvings from Sierra Leone and Guinea (New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1974);
W. A. Hart and C. Fyfe, “The Stone Figures of the Upper Guinea Coast,” History in Africa, Vol. 20 (1993). Eds.]
[See also Hans Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), p. 5. Eds.]
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Massaquoi, F., Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (2013). I Bid Farewell to Liberia. In: Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (eds) The Autobiography of an African Princess. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137102508_9
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