The country's constitution and flag-which look similar to the Red, White, and Blue but with only one star-were heavily ...

Founded in the 19th century by freed American slaves as a haven of liberty, Liberia has more recently gained a more grisly reputation for unending conflict. Taylor said in a radio address on ...

While most of Africa succumbed to European colonial domination during the "Scramble for Africa" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two nations—Ethiopia and Liberia—stand out as enduring ...

At the beginning of the 19th century very few people in Africa were ... expenses of setting up a mission. Sierra Leone and Liberia, both colonies set up by freed slaves, became important centres ...