Liberian expatriate journalism

galanga · Apr 2, 2004

New Democrat is a Netherlands-based online journal of Liberian news. Its banner slogan is "Emerging from its Ashes, An Independent Liberian Voice."

The current issue features the article Degrees for Sale: What is Liberia’s St. Regis University?

Why would anyone pay for accreditation for a university in a country with no functioning university, where academic degrees have since lost their value against the AK-47, and ministerial posts are sold and bought? One answer is that despite the pretences, crooks have taken charge of many institutions on the globe...

This entire play of marketing high academic degrees from Liberia, and how Americans are amongst the best customers, explains the tentacles of a criminal empire Charles Taylor and his lieutenants left in Liberia. Here is a country with collapsed school system and yet, it was able to convince people in the world’s most advanced country to enrol in a non-existent college. Has interim chair Charles Gyude Bryant, who announced last week he couldn’t steal to reopen the country’s only university, though of St. Regis College?
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The tone of the article is impassioned and angry.

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