The Mandingo was just *one* ethnic group of dozens in Liberia. And they were largely mistrusted by all the others. They were traders and had Islamic roots. The Americoes largely displaced their hegemony over trade so there was animosity but it's not right to say all the natives were Mandingo. Samuel K Doe was Krahn.
The 1980 coup was the worst thing to happen to Liberia. Liberia was the most flourishing Country on The Continent. Infrastructure 5star Hotels, culture, nightlife, Universities etc.
Hate n stupidity make them to spoiled their country n culture.... Now dey are d least develop country en Africa, corrupt nation, stupid en thinking positively n only care for their belly's development...
Doe didn't go into that mansion. The house keeper working that night had a different story about the assailants skin tone that infiltrated the mansion.
Jeff: You are very eloquent and I love that baritone but it seems you are missing a key point.... the Mandingo tribe is just one of the many tribes in Liberia. And so, to say that the Mandingos were left out in the governance of Liberia is to say that the British denied the Ibos tribe the right to rule Nigeria until Nigeria gained independence in the 1960s. Also, President Tubman was not the one killed. The man who succeeded him, his vice president for 19 years, William R. Tolbert was the one killed. The question of who actually killed Tolbert is still a huge controversy among many who are cognizant of the histories of Lumumba's murder, the overthrow of Nkrumah, and the concocted machinations by the West that eviscerated actual and cohesive leadership on the African continent in the cold war equation. The sergeant you alluded to in your video who claimed to have killed Tolbert is being widely discredited for carrying out that operation. For many, the search for the masterminds of that coup...still continues. You are right; it was a glorious country, but the Americo-Liberian settlers made a mistake to have imposed on the natives the same practice they experienced abroad. Once they felled apart with those (The Americans) who protected them in that practice, the lever was removed and fulcrum of their century-old practice came down crumbling like the Berlin Wall, resulting in a coup and decades of power struggles.
