 | Liberia: The Violence of Democracy Subjects: Political violence -- Liberia; Democracy -- Liberia; Liberia -- History -- Civil War 1989–; Liberia -- Politics and government -- 1980–; Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa, but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous traditions of legitimacy and political process. Mary H. Moran is Professor of Anthropology and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of Civilized Women: Gender and Prestige in Southeastern Liberia. |
