Lanterna Rally

Author: Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh

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Published: 1916-05-31

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ISBN-13: 9780913491416

This book is about my beloved Liberia and the Liberian people who have endured a lot from a centuries-old leadership that failed miserably to provide opportunity, development and progress to a people and country. While it is so true that successive Liberian leaders failed to provide the competent and visionary leadership it takes to move the country forward, the blame for such failure cannot be thrown on Liberian presidents alone. The Liberian progressive and the so-called intellectual class are also to blame for helping to drag Liberia into the mud and backwardness to satisfy their own selfish political and financial gains. Instead of forcing the hands of the political ruling class to account for rampant corruption, negligence and their gross leadership failures that continue to dehumanize the Liberian people and threaten the survival of Liberia as a civilized nation, the intellectual class or progressives continue to conveniently align themselves with those painfully inept and corrupt leaders to pillage the country. As these progressive intellectuals ignore the After 169 years of Independence, there are barely electricity and modern roads and streets and running sewer in Liberia, or in major communities in the country. The nation's health care and school systems are in disarray. The President of Liberia still manipulates the legislative and judicial system, as if we are still living in the Tubman era. With all these national problems starring at us, most Liberian intellectuals and ?progressives? are mainly concerned with the presidency and whom to put in the Executive Mansion. This strategy ? a survivalist one, perhaps is intended to put these individuals in a position to return to Liberia to work in government if their candidate wins the presidency. We can still have our presidential candidates and still focus on building institutions ? strong institutions, so that the next president will not capitalize and manipulate the bad policies that plunged Liberia into dictatorship, poverty, war, and underdevelopment.