I have been following all of the history of every country in Africa. I was amazed to find out about the Bassa and Gola tribes and how they spread all over most of West Africa and part of Latin America. But listening to Dr. Burrowes on Liberia before 1847 really lifted me more as a 🇱🇷. Just want to say thank you both for the subject well narrated .
This was a very enlightening conversation. As a Liberian in the diaspora and who didn’t grow up in Liberia, I’m always looking for ways to learn more about my country. I’ll be buying the book. Thank you, continue the great work.
Thanks for the kind words Jimmy! Between The Kola Forest And The Salty Sea: A History Of The Liberian People Before 1800 by Carl Patrick Burrowes is available on Amazon.com
Great job here on these topics gents! I can tell you this...those "spider stories" were entertaining & they also helped shaped how I am up to this day. My deep/mixed roots plays a huge role in how/why I connect with all things Afraka. Glad u guys touched on Afraka's soul/greatness before the colonizers disrupted us. With this age of information, we will unite & rise again... hopefully in our lifetime. Keep up the good work here & know you are playing a big part towards forming positive mindsets. I'm curiously suggesting a topic for your next vid: (if possible, invite folks from both camps to discuss this topic in a open minded logical style) Should we believe ACS's agenda for their Liberia as it is being thought in history books??? OR??? Open our minds for a sec & see the ACS as the perfect Trojan horse for colonialism 2.0? 🤔
So, was it the finding of Liberia which had an initial and profound ending of slavery or essentially a powerful movement in the ending of slavery? In other words, those who were mainly involved had their eyes opened - so to speak, wide opened because of such movement and how things were going.
Thanks so much for this valuable history. If you don't mind and please don't take offense, my observation is that you interrupted your guest too often, it would be nice to allow your guest to complete their thoughts
@@octaviusobey299 thanks for your understanding. Regarding future thoughts/topics and I am just thinking out loud here - what do you think about a topic on "how can we motivate our children born overseas to get involved with the future of Liberia?" I struggle with this topic with my own children.
We as African learned during the time of the Babylon when kings were visiting the Babylon in showing what they have, where they came from and the educational level
Thanks for watching and double thanks for subscribing. Next in that series is the Mid 1800’s. Hope you get to see it. Please share with everyone. Thanks again!
Carl Patrick Burrowes is a Liberian historian, academic, author, journalism professor and public intellectual. CEO of Know Your Self Press. He was born in Liberia to Jamaican parents who migrated there at the beckoning of Marcus Garvey! - Now retired -VP for Academic Affairs, Cuttington -Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Professor of Journalism Marshall University
Most of this is good feel story . we need to see scientific and historical documented facts. As for the Ghana's 'return' was just a marketing tool to get $$$ . Liberia's case is about the freed slaves wanting to enslave the locals till today
There was no Liberia before 1800.Liberia as a geopolitical entity was formed by returning Africans and the other ones on the coast who signed treaties to join the colony
@@octaviusobey299 say people of the coast don’t limit it to red coast line of Liberia 🇱🇷.No such area existed as a collective.Most tribes were isolated from each other and numbered only in the hundreds
@@octaviusobey299 to be less divisive you could have talked about the coastal migration in the 1100’s the migrants from Islamic kingdoms in the 1600’s or the Bassa migrants 1000 AD from Sudan.You keep talking about 1800 shows you have an inferiority complex about the people who created Liberia as a modern geopolitical entity
