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Elwood Dunn (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) An Introspective View of Amos Sawyer's Beyond Plunder Pianapue Kept Early (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) The Confessions of General Butt Naked Stephanie Horton (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) A Clash of Cultures in Sankawulo’s Sundown At Dawn, A Liberian Odyssey Nvasekie N. Konneh (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005) A Review of Thomas Kai Toteh’s novel, African Child from Wizard to Refugee Ima Myers, Guest Reviewer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Mleyaun: A Man from Nyaake A Review of The Native Boy: An Autobiography of a Man from Nyaake By William K. Reeves Ray Martin Toe (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) CREATIVE NON-FICTION Soapmaker and the Catholic Priest Kwame Ahenakwah (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) September 11, 2001 Keith Neville Asumuyaya Best (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Words On The Line Abdoulaye W. Dukulé (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) The Red Light on Broad Street James V. Dwalu (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Tips for Proper Snowe Removal: The Do's and Don't's George K. Fahnbulleh (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Gramma Fanny Lydia S. Freeman-Johnson (Volume 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) What Will Happen To All That Beauty? Stephanie Horton (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005) Letter To My Parents On The Differences Between Us M. A. K. (Vol 1, Issue 2, Nov. 2004) Games We Played, and, Palm Wine in My Belly Ophelia S. Lewis (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) Lucky Victim M. Woryonwon Roberts (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) I Dressed in Green Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) Trek to Freedom Robert Sesay (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) Tales from the Djuankadju Creation Epic of the Bassa people Robert Gbatiae Tikpor (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) Gbapleh and Liberian Women in America Ray Martin Toe (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Political Orosonjo Ray Martin Toe (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Zamakolo Ray Martin Toe (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) Strange Hunters in the Jungle Thomas Kai Toteh (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ESSAYS A Taste of Teage Carl Patrick Burrowes (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) The Search for Peace and the Critical Role of Women Horace Campbell, Guest Writer (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Capitalizing on Livelihoods in the Rubber Sector to Anchor Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia Jeanine M. Cooper (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood: The Value of Tradition in a Non-Traditional World Jolanda Cornish, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) Citizenship and the Potential for National Disinheritance Jestina Doe-Anderson (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Beyond the War: Liberian Women's Other Horror Stories Jestina Doe-Anderson (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Overcoming Subordination: The Struggle of Women in Liberia Continues Jestina Doe-Anderson (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Beyond the Hardened Caricatures: Perspectives on Immigrant Youth Development Emmanuel Dolo (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Perils and Promise: Toward A New Generation of Women Leaders Emmanuel Dolo (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Toward a Black Queer Literature: James Baldwin’s and Thomas Glave’s Politics of Sexual Irony Carrza DuBose, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Literary Education and Canon Formation: The Liberian Experience S. Kpanbayeazee Duworko (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) The Media and Liberia’s Quest for Leaders H. Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr. (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Notes on the Current Political Climate: We Must Run While They Walk! H. Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr. (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005) African Verse & the Cultural Forces in World Poetry Gbanabom Hallowell, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) The Claustrophobia of Exile: African Poets Writing in the “Wasteland” Gbanabom Hallowell, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) Journeying Through Poetry Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) From Ear To Page: Oral and Aural Qualities of Black Literatures CoCo Harris (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Matrix or Third Eye: Red or Blue Pill for African Socialization Asa G. Hilliard III, Guest Writer (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005) The Dance She Knows: Sexualization, Stigmatization, Marginalization, Male Power & Control Stephanie Horton (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Rejecting the Gaze: A Critique of Russell Banks’ The Darling Stephanie Horton (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) Liberia: 2005 Elections and the Challenges Ahead Thomas Jaye (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Liberia: The Way Forward Thomas Jaye (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) Security Sector Reform in Liberia Thomas Jaye (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) West African Contemporary Politics: A Critical Perspective Thomas Jaye (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) The New Divide Michael Jones (Vol. 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004) History, Political Discourse, and Narrative Strategies in the African Novel: Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé Paschal B. Kyiiripuo Kyoore, Guest Writer (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Flower Garden Wayetu Moore (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) Gronah Boys, Pop Doe and Revolution: Monrovia in the 1970s Anthony Morgan, Jr. (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004) Mt. Sinai and Beyond Robtel Neajai Pailey (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) Slavery Ain't Dead Robtel Neajai Pailey (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Can Mama Ellen Deliver Liberty to Liberia? Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) The Building Blocks of a Thriving Nation Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) Homecoming Vamba Sherif (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Behind the Numbers: Untold Suffering in the Congo Keith Harmon Snow and David Barouski, Guest Writers (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) African Unifier Kwame Nkrumah's Polarizing Identity Emmanuel Jeh Taryon (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) K-Moses Nagbe: A Contemporary African Writer at Work Ray Martin Toe (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) The Real Mark of a Revolutionary: A Tribute to Boley N’dorbor, 1959 – 1990 Ray Martin Toe (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Writing as a Way of Life Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) Oil Trip Emira Woods (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) FICTION Captain Sneider A Short Story Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005) Quiwonkpa A Short Story Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) Warlords A Short Story Excerpt Eva Acqui (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Death Rituals A Short Story Doeba Bropleh (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Election Fever in Darkeria A Short Story Obed W. Dolo (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) See Death By Sea A Short Story Abdoulaye W. Dukulé (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005) Dahn’s Battle A Short Story Worlea Saywah Dunah (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) In Union Strong Gbanabom Hallowell (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) The Earthly Part A Novel Excerpt Stephanie Horton (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) The Invertebrate World A Short Story Excerpt Stephanie Horton (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) Kiyee is Deceived Dave Toh Jah & Dennis Chewlae Jah (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) Dabuteh A Short Story Karamoh Kabba (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) Beyond Anxiety A Short Story Nathaniel N. P. Nah, Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) Exiled A Novel Excerpt Angela M. Peabody (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) The Deaf-Mute A Short Story Wilton Sankawulo Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) The Legend of Seimavile Halingi A Short Story Wilton Sankawulo Sr. (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) I Will Pay You When I Grow Up A Short Story Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) Ma Chrisma On You A Short Story Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) The Weeping Girl of Digei A Short Story Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) Redemption Road A Novel Excerpt Elma Shaw (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) The Kingdom of Sebah A Novel Excerpt Vamba Sherif (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) The Prowl A Short Story Charlina Daitouah-Smith (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) Mount Smoke A Novel Excerpt Thomas Kai Toteh (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) INTERVIEWS After Years of Silence, K. M. Nagbe Again! Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004) Cecilia Armena King: The Woman Behind the Drawings Stephanie Horton (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) The Exilic Lens: Liberian Filmmaker Gerald K. Barclay Stephanie Horton (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Miatta Fahnbulleh: A Lyrical History Stephanie Horton (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004) Stanley Seakor, Publisher of The Analyst Newspaper Stephanie Horton (Vol 1, Issue 2, Nov. 2004) Soprano Dawn Padmore in Word & Song Stephanie Horton (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) Vamba Sherif: The Possibility of Words Leave Me Enthralled Nvasekie N. Konneh (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) Against Annihilation: A Conversation on Liberian Literature with Wilton Gbakolo Sengbe Sankawulo, Sr. Annaird Naxela (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) PJW LECTURES Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Lecture Series Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) Introduction to Creative Writing: The Three Genres of Literature Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) Writing Poetry: What Makes a Poem a Poem? Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) POETRY A Celebration of Student Poetry with An Introduction By Eva Acqui Monrovia Consolidated School System Student Poetry (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) ‘Back in Sinkor,’ ‘Love of Liberty,’ ‘Rebel Woman’ Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004) ‘Lost Teachings,’ ‘Remains,’ ‘What I Actually Do,’ & ‘Party on Quicksand’ Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘Loss,’ ‘Words Can’t Tell,’ & ‘Silence of Pines’ Eva Acqui (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) ‘River Goddess’ & ‘When I Hear Drums’ Shariff Ashanti (Vol 1, Issue 2, Nov. 2004) ‘Monrovia,’ ‘Education for the Masses,’ ‘Yuh Kom'-fuh Meehn,’ ‘Just A Little Bit More’ & ‘Of Sycophants and PRCophants’ Keith Neville Asumuyaya Best (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) ‘The Congo Greets the Mesurado,’ ‘Cacophony,’ ‘Hymn for the Spring Equinox,’ & ‘Guardian of the Hearth’ Carl Patrick Burrowes (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) ‘. . . I Should’ Earl D. Burrowes, Sr. (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004) ‘My White Lace Tablecloth,’ ‘Disillusioned,’ ‘Truth and Light,’ ‘To The Most High God,’ & ‘Solitude’ Audrey Carey-Haick (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘Firstborn,’ ‘All She Will Be Needing,’ ‘New Beginnings,’ ‘Blinded,’ & ‘Child Unborn’ Audrey Carey-Haick (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) ‘War Vibrations: Sketches of the War (1990),’ ‘The Gift,’ ‘What A Life,’ & ‘The First Time’ Sarah A. Hayes Cooper (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) ‘Broke Again??,’ ‘The River Parts,’ & ‘While Time Lasts!’ Charlina Saryabieh B. Daitouah (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) ‘Gaining Independence,’ ‘The Last Day of Class,’ ‘The Coup,’ & ‘Don’t Cry My African Child’ Wade' Dennis (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) ‘Memories of Mama by the Riverside,’ ‘Cursor On My Life,’ & ‘The White Coffin at Hope Furniture’ Obed W. Dolo (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) ‘Love Betrayed: Lamentations of a Palm-wine Tree,’ ‘Sweet Land of Liberty: What Brand of Liberty?,’ ‘Stillborn,’ & ‘What Happened to the Pepperbird’s Song?’ Obed W. Dolo (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘Revolution Rain,’ ‘Harmattan,’ ‘Love Delirium,’ & ‘Mister Vote-Buying Politician’ Obed W. Dolo (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘Equal Victims in War Game,’ ‘Hail You, My Liberators,’ ‘Child of the Nineties,’ ‘ War,’ & ‘I Step in Darkness Again’ Worlea Saywah Dunah (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) ‘the politics of war,’ ‘my own,’ ‘push further,’ & ‘the new civilization’ S. Kpanbayeazee Duworko, II (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) ‘Our Heroes and Heroines,’ ‘Deceitful,’ & ‘A Diary for Michael’ Musue N. Haddad (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘Brother,’ ‘Dearest Mama,’ ‘A Post Card for Michael,’ & ‘I am free, truly free!’ Musue N. Haddad (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘I Love the Breasts of Wangari Maathai,’ ‘Along this Avenue Where I Live,’ ‘Natural Selection,’ ‘Legacy of the Damned,’ & ‘I Dream of Africa’ Gbanabom Hallowell, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) ‘Sparse,’ ‘Rhetoric,’ ‘He and She (II),’ & ‘Eggplant to Sugarcane’ Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005) ‘Liberia's Cry,’ ‘Refugee Camp,’ ‘Frustration,’ & ‘Ancestral Chant’ Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) ‘For Liberia,’ ‘Nah Foh, Nah Foh,’ & ‘Water Piece’ Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) ‘My Heart Hears Your Song,’ ‘Your Eyes,’ ‘Your Song,’ & ‘An African Mother’ Mohamedu F. Jones (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘The Pencil vs The Pen,’ ‘Honey on a Gold Shield,’ & ‘The God before Yassa knew about Man’ Laura Wede Kai (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘In Your Eyes,’ ‘Maybe,’ ‘Hush My Love,’ & ‘I Wish,’ Cecilia Armena King (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006) ‘In the Beginning,’ ‘The Crying Old Man,’ ‘In the Land of My Father’s Birth,’ ‘Political Party Line,’ & ‘My Father’s Last Prayer’ Nvasekie N. Konneh (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘A Glimpse Of Love,’ ‘The Eyes Of My Traitor,’ & ‘Now’ Ophelia S. Lewis (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) ‘Cocorioko,’ ‘Silver Rain,’ ‘Rest in Peace,’ & ‘Enough is Enough’ Roland Bankole Marke, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘Deliver Me From The Hands of Strange Children,’ ‘Today,’ ‘Victory Threads,’ & ‘The Hymn of the Bow’ Octavia McBride-Ahébée, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘Somebody,’ ‘The Difference,’ ‘Sheep and Shepards,’ ‘Troy,’ & ‘MILK for All God's Children’ K-Moses Nagbe (Vol 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004) A Page from Jlàô Lore: ‘The Day Our Captain Died’ An Epic Story-Poem K-Moses Nagbe (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005) ‘Parent-Teacher Association, Unification Town,’ ‘Sin,’ ‘Raindance,’ ‘Wheelbarrow in the Embassy,’ & ‘is’ Annaird Naxela (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006) ‘For Our Old-Future (or New?) Poets,’ & ‘Untitled’ (4 of 15) Annaird Naxela (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘Like the Dove of Peace,’ ‘In the heat of the moment,’ ‘Dishonesty: The private roots of our public woes,’ ‘Freeing our minds’ & ‘Freeing our minds II’ Saah Charles N'Tow (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006) ‘Flood Waters’ Omanza Eugene Shaw (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004) ‘football,’ ‘We Divine Embryos,’ & ‘Weep Not For Dead Leaves’ Omanza Eugene Shaw (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘What Happened to Hope?,’ ‘Like A Dream,’ & ‘The Children’ Teri Weefur (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘Monrovia, Revisited,’ ‘All Dirges Have Ceased,’ ‘The Women in My Family,’ ‘In the Beginning,’ & ‘Surrender’ Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005) ‘The River Is Rising,’ ‘Our Heroes,’ ‘In The Ruined City: A Poem for Monrovia,’ & ‘I Now Wander’ Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Volume 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006) ‘For Kwame Nkrumah,’ ‘In the Making of a Woman,’ ‘At Point Loma,’ & ‘This Is What I Tell My Daughter’ Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007) ‘Vagina Dialogue: A Date with Eve Ensler,’ ‘mind and body,’ & ‘luxury’ Korto Williams (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)