10 Things You Didn't Know About Liberia
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Welcome to this Article and thanks for watching it's always a pleasure presenting to you some interesting facts about the beautiful countries on the African continent so there was shining the light in Liberia and we're presenting some lesser-known facts about this West African country officially the Republic of Liberia Liberia is a country on West African coast it is bordered by Syrian to the northwest Guinea to the not ibecause to its East and the Atlantic Ocean to its south southwest it covers an area of one hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and sixty nine square kilometres and has a population of around 4.9 million people Liberia comes from the Greek word meaning land of the free English is the official language but over 20 indigenous languages are spoken representing the numerous ethnic groups who make up more than 95% of the population the country's capital and largest city is Monrovia Liberia has a very rich bittersweet history if you're new here welcome be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any of our Article Liberia began as a settlement of the American Colonization Society who believed black people will face a better chance for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States the country declared its independence on July 26 1847 the US did not recognize Liberians independence on 2 February 5th 1862 during the American Civil War so let's take a closer look at this amazing country with the 10 things you probably didn't know about Liberia.
1 Liberia was founded by American trade abolitionists Liberia was originally an American colony set up by a coalition of slavers and abolitionists way back in the progressive days of the antebellum United States some forward-thinking and module slave owners realized that the days of slavery spent numbering it despite this realization it was a step too far to consider that blacks and white would be equals one day the slave owners may have been for thinking for your time but the still on other people the American Colonization Society ACS was founded by collusion of abolitionists and slavers who believe that free blacks could never coexist with whites in America so the easiest thought the best solution was sentiments abated slaves to Liberia to live freely after the easiest boat lands in Liberia the first settlers arrived there in 1822 but the died of ridiculously nasty diseases in the swamps so technically the second group of former slaves actually settled the lon.
2 The first female president came from Liberia proud 2006 they had never been a female president in Africa Ellen Johnson suddenly became the first female president in Africa in 2006 proud to become in the 24s identify birria cell leave work at Citibank so leave returned to Liberia 1985 to run as vice president on the Jackson though on the ticket of the Liberian Action Party in the 1985 election however sally was placed on the house of race in August 1985 instead of the sentence of 10 years imprisonment pass addition as a consequence of the speech in which she insulted the members of the somewhat dole regime following international calls for her release some widowed pardon and release her in September due to government pressure she was removed from the presidential ticket and instead run for a Senate seat in months rather County in 2005 she ran for presidential elections and on 23rd November 2005 Sally was declared winner of the Liberian election and confirmed as the country's next president and the first woman to be elected as president in an African country her inauguration took place on 16 January 2006 it was attended by many foreign dignitaries including United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and first lady Laura Bush.
3 Library rary was the first African country to gain its independence Liberia began as a settlement of the American Colonization Society who believe black people will face a better chance for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States the country declares its independence on July 26 1847 the US did not recognize Liberians independence on 2 February 5 1862 during the American Civil War Between January 7 1822 and the American Civil War more than 15,000 freed and free born black people were faced legislature limits in United States and 3190 it afro-caribbeans relocate to the settlement the settlers carried the culture and tradition with them the Liberian Constitution and flag was modeled after those of the US and January retired 1848 Joseph Jenkins Robert a wealthy Freeborn african-american from Virginia was settled in Liberia was elected liberius first president after the people proclaimed independence Liberia was the first african republic to proclaim its independence and it's africa's first and oldest modern republic it retained its independence during the Scramble for Africa during World War two Liberia supported the United States war effort against Germany and in turn the new as invested in considerable infrastructures in Liberia to help its war effort which also aided the country in modernizing and improving it major a transportation facilities.
4 Liberia is the highest ridges of rubber in Africa Africa accounts for around five percent of the global natural rubber production the main producing country being Nigeria Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire since the establishment of the Firestone plantation in 1926 rubber has been the cornerstone of the Liberian economy even in post-conflict Liberia the commodity remains the country most important cash crop rubber trees are cultivated on large company on plantations where workers collect rubber year-round for a fixed salary and also on small-scale farms that belongs to households and individuals rubber has a long and controversial history in Liberia observers lashley agrees that the sector herself as a much-needed generator of state revenue and the creator of formal salary employment in the country with a largely subsistence agriculture economy however there has been a persistent concern and tension around the tents of contracts signed between the Liberian state and rubber company on the other hand and the living and working condition on the Liberian plantations on the other Liberia is currently the highest producer of rubber in Africa with some of the biggest rubber plantations.
5 Liberia has the second largest commercial fleets of ships in the world due to its Lissa fair attitude towards pesky things like maritime lore Liberia has small ships registered under the flag of convenience than any other country except Panama about 12% of the world's ships fly the flag of Liberia according to the Liberian registry Liberia has any international respect for its education - flag in the world most secure vessels even so the registry itself is printed by a US company despite so many ship owners taking advantage of Liberian slacks maritime law very later of the registration fee has benefited people was flex and don't approximately 4,000 vessels it is believed that Charles Taylor redirected some of the phones in the non-governmental projects with registration fees accounting to 25% of Liberians tax revenue it is unlikely that the government will be keen to reform maritime law at the behest of other nations although the ships are expected to employ Liberian fellows this is seldom an polled due to the closure of the mission Marine Academy in 1992.
6 The first African to win the FIFA Ballon d'Or is from Liberia below it's an annual football award presented by Frank's football it has been awarded since 1956 although between 2010 and 2015 an agreement was made with FIFA and the award was temporarily matched with FIFA World Player of the Year and known as FIFA Ballon d'Or however the partnership ended in 2016 and the award reverted to Ballon d'Or while FIFA also reverted to its own separate annual award now named the best FIFA men's player in 1995 - where from Liberia became the first African football player to win the award he won the award during his time with AC Milan until date no other African Footballer has won the award judge way is currently serving as the 25th president of Liberia.
7 The capital city of Liberia was named after the US president Monrovia the capital city of Liberia was in honor of you as President James Monroe a prominent supporter of the colonization of Liberia and the American Colonization Society along with Washington DC it is one of the two national capitals to be named after a u.s. president in 1816 with the aim of establishing a self-sufficient colony for emancipated American slaves something that had already been accomplished in Freetown the first settlers arrived in Africa from the United States under the auspices of the American Colonization Society the landed a chévre island in present-day Syria and January 7 1822 the second ship rescued settlers and took them to Cape May sarado establishing the set of Christal police in 1824 the city was renamed Monrovia after James Monroe then President of the United States was a prominent supporter of the colony in sending free black slaves and X Caribbean slave from the United States of America and Caribbean island to Liberia and we'll saw it as preferable to emancipation in America.
8 Liberia is home to some of the weirdest animals in the world the long-tailed Pangolin leaves in Liberia although humans are going out of their way to eat it into extinction like everything else pangolins are weird but also killed in way that makes them beloved by hipsters and Japanese teenagers however the animals are endangered which means that they are incredibly valuable as a result the Pangolin is the most trafficked animal on earth despite looking like a honey badger in the snakeskin third Chinese medicine has decided that eaton Pangolin is good for you it's in rare animals is also sign of woe in Liberia however the Pangolin is banned from poaching like all other bush meat early cases but the value of this unique animal is high enough that the reward outweighs the risk of many poachers Pangolin scales alone Aleppo tend to fetch 3000 dollars per kilogram there are several other weird animals in Liberia such as Liberian Mongoose and the go llama limba.
9 Liberia has the highest number of precedents in Africa of all time like baby about the first African country to gain its independence from the United States and throughout the history of the country they have been a total of 25 presidents the first President of Liberia was Joseph Jenkins rabbits he took office on January 3rd 1848 and left in 1856 in 2006 Africa's first female president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated as the 22nd President of Liberia Judge way is currently the president of Liberia all together they have been a total of 25 precedents in Liberia with the longest precedent 7 for 27 years and the shorter 7 for 6 to 7 days.
10 The first African president to be convicted for war crime came from Liberia in 2012 Charles Taylor former President of Liberia convicted for his role in the Syrian conflict in which he used child soldiers rape and amputation as his weapon of choice but Taylor was a Lisa's Britta as his own people to preserve the precarious peace between the different ethnic groups he was never charged for his crime in Liberia after support in the 1980 coup that ended 133 years of government by the descendants of freed slaves teleprompting embezzled 1 million dollars from its country inflates of the u.s. arrested for this crime teller is kid jailed and hooked up in Mohammed Gaddafi in Libya telling the CIA helped him to escape but by Gaddafi teller overthrew the Liberian government that he had helped to install but teller was denied victory by his own lieutenant who broke away from his own army captured president o and tortured all to death this pact another civil war that became an ethnic conflict cousin over six hundred thousand lives before the first Liberian Civil War ended in 1997 hello was quite fond of druggin and Burton watching children to be his soldiers they will put on wedding dresses and blonde wigs which the belief would make them Emoto the effects of téllez pathology still persist today as former child soldiers attempt to lead normal lives alongside the victims of the horrific nd Clinton history will be kind to me teller said on live in office I have accepted this role as a sacrificial lamb there you have it the Souris those were the 10 things you probably didn't know about Liberia.
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