Today on Lumumba’s Africa, the professor journeys to West Africa to explore the complex soul of Liberia. He examines the American Colonization Society’s “back-to-Africa” project, tracing how freed African-Americans established a new republic on ancestral soil. But this is no triumphant homecoming – it is a story of dislocation. Arriving with the language and culture of their oppressors, the settlers became a new elite that marginalized indigenous populations, leaving a legacy of division and lost heritage. Tune in for a sharp analysis of a nation that stands as both the pride and tragedy of the African diaspora.
