Liberia: Crying for Freedom

Issue Date April 1996
Volume 7
Issue 2
Page Numbers 148-58
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About the Author

Dave Peterson is director of the Africa program at the National Endowment for Democracy. He has traveled to more than forty African countries, including a visit to Burundi in 2004, and has published numerous articles on African politics.

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