Liberia and the Challenges of US Imperialism
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 1, 2023
Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia, January 1943. (Official Navy Photo from Office of War Information)
Liberia's history should be understood as that of a colony, the first U.S. overseas colony.
For those who are concerned about the US interference and its debilitating colonial and neocolonial impact on Africa, the study of Liberia is instructive. As professor Niels Hahn argues in his book, Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia, Challenges of Resistance and Compliance:
“Liberia is the country in Africa . . .
