Why Liberia Was Not Colonized?? 

The Liberian accent is the most unique in Africa. It is distinct, and unlike any of the regional accents even within West Africa.

I love how the elders as well as the younger people know their history and can speak on it. Very good interviews!

The colonization of the past is different from the colonization of the present. The past was physical which everyone could feel and see But The present colonization is mental that one can not see it but feel it and money where people are volunteering into slavery in search of money to survive.

I learned something New today. I'm proud of the liberians for knowing their History so well....

Are these random people you're asking? If so, it's impressive that they know their history! I like this episode. 👏🏿 I wish it was longer.

Thanks for bringing Liberian history to the world at large. At the end of the day, we Liberian should be proud of our culture and heritage and work for the betterment of Liberia and our beloved continent Africa. It doesn't matter if we were colonized or not, we are all in this boat together as African trying to free our minds of mental slavery and unite our continent as one big United States of Africa. Thanks Wode Maya!

Learnt something new... thanks for the good work. AIya Maya

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Oh please 🙄, look at the flag, the street names, the money, the language, oh please. Technicalities be gone, this tiny region is not a player on a global level. Unite Africa!!!

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I accept the explanation of most of the ones who commented in the video. The free black Americans who created Liberia through the American colonial society were already westernized. However, many aboriginals on the green coast (Liberia) were also westernized(more than those inland) because they were use to trading with Europeans for centuries. So it was easier for the free black Americans to integrate with some of the Native tribes on the coastline. The friction was mostly with the less westernized natives further inland who had an alliance with Great Britain in whom they traded with. There was also a culture conflict. When the black Americans arrived at the green coast they complained in their journal that some of the natives were selling slaves to the Portuguese. It should be obvious why freed black Americans would have a problem with that. However, with that said I also believe that black Americans went to far in making the Natives Assimilate. At the end of the day the conflict was about a difference in culture and not knowing how to live in harmony with such differences. This is a lesson for us to learn from! Black Americans will always be connected to Liberia but we need to learn from the mistakes our ancestors made. We also need to reconnect with the country and it's natives. All of its natives! We have to learn their languages and customs as they learn ours. This way we can overcome the cultural divide that caused the civil war.

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We are talking about Control. And there are various levels of control. It was/is recognized as an independent nation. It was a member of the League of Nations during the height of Colonialism. It had/has Black political leaders. Colonialism's definition includes full or partial political control, occupying the land with settlers and exploiting it economically. I would say 2 out of 3 there. No white settlers, but if you call the freed slaves settlers, and agents of America then you could conclude yes all 3. I would say that Liberia has always existed in a state of Neo-Colonialism when most of the rest of Africa was in regular ol' Colonialism.

This was extremely interesting Maya. An Amazing Episode. You see the understanding of how Liberians see their identity. That's the power of the documentation of history and the narrative that is passed down through generations. This was powerful. So in other words an organization was formed to influence the people to accept the returnees. Very interesting. Dem Western Powers have not changed same tactics different styles according to the times, wow! This was a "light ball" moment for me. Very interesting. Thanks for this very interesting insight on Liberian National Identity 👌 #africatotheworld🌍

I am Ethiopian my brother and sisters. I have something to say! Let's focus how we can connect Africa !by means of Transportation, I always think of Train! Let us read about ,Liberia,Ethiopia Kenya ,Ghana and all the rest let us establish love and unity! Enough is Enough, ! Africans we have suffered due to Dictatorship,Tribalism,and foreign interference. Our future,is within us! My fear is up to now We have survived using our natural resources?If our natural resources deplete ,what do we have to pass for the coming generation of Africans.??? We have to push our dictators to invest in science and Technology,not war machines. Thank you.

So powerfull. We have to stop listening to Europeans account of history.

It's a shame that other West Africans (especially Ghanians and Nigerians) hate on us so bad, but before our civil war a lot you all's ancestors were in our country enjoying the benefits, culture, and jobs. We welcomed you with ease. Please take several seats. Also, there were people living inland way before Americo Liberians got there, I know because am the descendant of some of them.

Interesting topic. I'm glad to see that my Liberian brothers and sisters know their history and articulate in expressing their views.

I am so impressed by the knowledge of the people of Liberia

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Colonization was not always done by Countries. Parts of America were colonized by the Hudson Bay Company. India was colonized by the East India Company. European countries gave charters to companies to establish "outposts" in the Americas, Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. These outpost is where they established trade and later started to push their cultural imperatives. It is important that people understand this part of history because it is happening again. A country does not have to be conquered to be colonized. It can be colonized by controlling its trade, commerce, official language, dominant religion, form of government, etc. It's 2019. Time to rid ourselves of the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and the Colonized Negro Mind Dysphoria. Peace!!

Thanks Maya! I have been to Liberia. Founded by Black Americans. We love your work. Support Maya Black Diaspora.

Hello Wode Maya. This was a very insightful video. It is so good to hear the thoughts of the Liberians that you interviewed. I will do my own research on the history of Liberia. Thanks for the excellent content, and congratulations.

Liberians know their history.

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The ACS American Colonise Society is no different from the Berlin Conference participants.They both came to Africa to colonise and they did. It says it in the name

Liberia is an integrated country in which the Indigenous Africans and the repatriated American born Africans assimilated.

This is so interesting Wode Maya! Well done!

Learned something new on this One Wode Maya. Thanks

This video was informative and filled with unknown facts. I plan to visit Liberia one day

Our Liberian brothers who said "No" are attempting to explain colonization away by using semantics. They are in denial because it really doesn't matter whether an invading entity is a country or an organization... if outside forces take socio-economic control over another peoples skills, land, wealty and natural resources, they are colonizers. If Liberia wasn't colonized, they would never have had to reclaim their independence. In reality every corner of Africa, including Liberia (who was occupied by American goverment forces) and Ethiopia (which was not formally colonized, but was definitely invaded and occupied by Portuguese and Italian forces) were colonized, or oppressed ( if thats what you want to call it) in some form or fashion. These European tyrants left no stone unturned...just terrible.

Monrovia is named in honor of U.S. President James Monroe, a prominent supporter of the colonization of Liberia and the American Colonization Society.

Such an awesome video Maya. So much detail and passion from the people who are obviously proud of their country. Thank you dear.

The accurate answer to this question is NO. The ACS established colonies in what we call Liberia today. Other similar colonies were also set-up in what we call Liberia today(e. G. The Maryland settlement) eventually, all the separate settlements came together and decided to become one and declared independence from ACS. Thus Liberia was THEN established. So again, Liberia was not colonized. African Americans came and BOUGHT the land from some of the chiefs in the area to start over in Africa after becoming free from slavery.... But then, for reasons unknown, they bought the land but then also had to share it with the people they bought it from? I don't understand that part of the history. If I buy a house from a family, that family doesn't get to stay in the house and live with me afterwards but that's a different discussion I guess. When African Americans established Liberia they witnessed first hand, the local tribes still partaking in the illegal slave trade(they were taking Africans to the coast to sell to the Portuguese) This obviously offended Liberians(talking about newly settled African Americans in Liberia) and they took direct action to stop this trade. This upset the locals, as it was effecting their trade. As a result, local tribes regularly attacked the small and fragile Liberian settlements for over a decade until the Liberians decisively defeated the local tribes and peace was established between the Liberian settlements and the local tribes. As a result of these early interactions, the Liberians(so called americo Liberians) rightfully distrusted the local tribes and tried to keep them away from Liberia. Over time, though, more and more trust was established and Liberia began to integrate the local tribes into Liberia proper(making them Liberians as well) this included adopting children from local tribes, providing schooling, apprenticeship, training, and stable jobs in the government. Some were even sent to Europe and America to go to American colleges and universities and come back to help Liberia. This was a great system that was expanding more and more under Tolbert as he truly tried to integrate the natives into Liberia. They were also allowed to join the military and over time became the majority of the military personnel (this was obviously a mistake) So as you can see, Liberians WERE integrating the local tribes into Liberia but the native population decided that they just wanted to take over everything and killed most of the Liberian ran government in 1980. Having taken over Liberian with all the infrastructure undamaged and ready for use, what did they do with it? They destroyed it all in stupid tribal wars and Liberia is still recovering from it. Judging by the upvotes for the original comment it seems that anti African American(so called americo Liberians) feelings are still there which is sad because they were not the ones to actually destroy the country. At this point(2019 going into 2020) there should be no more talk of natives vs Congo people(so called americo Liberians)... We should all just be Liberians from now on and follow the example set by Rwanda. This was Liberia before the war - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jhxoe8MI2U8.html Liberia in 1962 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_i6CXqzmwsQ.html Sadly we have not regained these Glory days in Liberia. Africans from all over the continent used to vacation in Liberia it was so nice

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Powerful information very informative

Accents are the most unique in Africa in my opinion.

Interesting. Do this type of videos more to expose the mentality of the people and perception of identity.

Indirect they were by America

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Yep. Colonized by freed black slaves. Had color based minority rule apartheid before South Africa . Most “colonies” in Africa were the property of private interests. Indeed Liberians were involved in the shipment of African indigenes as slaves to Equatorial Guinea well after slavery had been abolished in the West.

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Maya I really enjoyed this short but super insightful video plz bring us more history such as this; it was very thought provoking Afrika to the World... Aiya Maya

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I'm so glad my beautiful Liberian do know their history. I have just been educated about my history. Thanks guys

Yes Liberia was colonized.by the ACS (American Colonization Society). The American Society was not called Colonization for nothing.

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I knew a lot of the history, but I love to hear from the Liberians brothers and sisters. Liberian food is very delicious.

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U r making history my brother!! I am an African n i have always declared Liberia as never colonized but..... I'll have to revisit that decision!!!!! Thank u bro!!!!

God bless Liberia

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I am certain the freed slaves are unhappy of what Liberia and Sierra Leone turned out to be..

That’s interesting. Wasn’t Liberia created by the United States, thus making it a colony. I know that Ethiopia was invaded by Italy later in the scramble, the president was depose and placed in exile. Whatever we call it politically, foreign interference has inhibited African nations from developing social and commercially, or building infrastructure.

Wode Maya opened a pandora Box. Never tell a Liberian that Liberia was colonized. Lol

This was very informative thanks Brudda

Liberia was colonized. That's the fact Black people's

Very educative!!

But I think also in other countries the organisations partly played a part like the Missionary organisations. I loved Liberian they seems all literate about their history

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Liberia you had such an amazing and beautiful country 40 years ago into the so called natives took over and that country has yet to come out of hell with all that beauty surrounding it. Wode Maya not fooling me on this one i know what know.

they know their history ,afro americans really don't " we've been told so many lies we are confused "

The opinions about colonisation seem to be divided among the people.

Though Liberia was founded by freed American slaves, it was still considered as America’s only Colony and Protectorate in Africa.

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Am Sierraleonian and we were colonized by France. I always thought Liberia was colonized by the U.S. and Ethiopia was the only country not colonized. Because in Ethiopia their time, year and alot of stuff is different than everyone one... I have to do some research after watching this. Great video

Countries are organizations. They do business, they budget, they invest and do a lot of similar activities outside of "war". The United states is an origination and it does business through the fed which prints its "money"

Both wasn’t colonized but they were oppressed

So after seeing the video I did my own research, interesting history, I've learn some of us return home from america to Liberia and settled in. Hopefully we will all return home one day, Africa needs all her branches on the same tree.

WADA, ethiopian here, and yes I knew Liberia was not colonized. I am sure ghana tought this in school. It's one over thouthends great story you covered, not an issue in my part. Keep it up my brother!

Liberia wasn't traditionally colonized like other African countries. America established it under the ACS (American Colonization Society 1817). 1847 Liberia became independent from America. Liberia technically was colonized by America from 1817 to 1847. America established Liberia for freed African American Slaves to return to Africa. These people were called Americo-Liberians. Liberia is the most American place in Africa. As an African American, I am blessed to be African. Liberian learn American English in school. Americo-Liberians ruled from 1847-1980. During this time America had their hand in Liberia until the coup was done and the Americo-Liberians were overthrown. Charles Doe was the first indigenous Liberian to rule 1980-1986. He was of Krahn ethnic group. Thanks, Wode Maya for this video. Here are a few references regarding the History of Liberia the American colony 1817-1847 that was founded by African American freed slaves. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H-vwDkRtKDU.html www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-94j2DMWCErg.html

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They say Ethiopia was not colonized but Italy surely tried

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Wow u was on the University of Liberia campus at Capitol Hill.

".....I could have freed hundreds more, if they only knew they was slaves" ----Harriet Tubman If you can't recognize colonization, you'll never be able to overcome it.

My husband is Liberian and they were colonized hence the name Liberia and the capital being named Monrovia after an American at the time and they speak English!!!!! Wake up people. Yes there were Aboriginals there already but free blacks Aboriginal to America helped with the colonization whether knowing/unknowingly which is one of the main reasons my husband and a lot of his family are back in America bc of wars with the blacks vs blacks and too many families dying for the colonizers greed to take over the natural resources. A good way to know if a place is colonized look at the language they speak and you'll know who the colonizers are. Denial is real amongst melanated people worldwide.

This is the smart ones. They know they cannot be colonized by an organization. I pause the video to write my first comment and then they said it.

I understood the first girl accent perfectly well because I use to live in Liberia from 1986 - 1992. Am old taxi 🚕 driver in Monrovia. Am old gbana men.

We must not let Liberian history be repeated on the continent

Such an interesting history!

Green Coast Pepper Coast Christopolis These are all the previous names of Liberia

ACS was an Organization that took upon itself to repatriate slaves back to Africa. When the slaves arrived, there were indigenous Liberians in Liberia. This is why The slaves called “Americo Liberians don’t have a specific county because they came late. Liberia was not colonized by the USA. Liberia was only used as a receiving country or region for free slaves.

Brief History: Gained it's independent in July 26 1847 Founder; The ACS (America Colonization Society) The Deceleration of independent was sing in a church (Baptist Church) is the oldest church in Monrovia. The capital city was name after the fifth president of America, the first name of the capital city was Christopolist( meaning city of Christ) Liberia was never colonized, but founder by free slave from America in the 1800s, they first came in 1822 on a ship called Elezibath their trips to the Green Cost was sponsored by the ACS. The group that came from USA was lead by the ACS appointed Agent , after that they founded the Commonwealth government. That government decided to no longer more be under the leadership of the ACS, and there where it's all begin the journey to independent.

There were already people there before the freed slaves came. So what is the story of the original inhabitants of the “GREEN COAST”?

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I disagree , Liberia was purchased by the USA for freed American slaves to go to by choice . Liberia is highly influenced by American politics and they have also gotten money from America . In other words America owns Liberia in my opinion. America named the land Liberia.I was told I have roots in Liberia.

I had difficulty understanding what they were saying. But I got the idea.

Nice one bro

What about mental colonisation?!!

This is so interesting, I never no, that my Brother, good job