Word from the Editor
Korto Williams
We are the Ones! Creative Agency and Activism for Women’s Rights in Liberia!
Creative Non-Fiction
Wayétu Moore
Hold Your Ear: The Panang-nang Song
Coup Babies
Nyono Sio Nyenbeju (“She Who Is Greater Than Men”): Hiah Zeay Karmbor Juah of Filorken
Essays
Sunit Bagree
Confronting Rape Apologists
Stigmatization and Sexual & Gender-Based Violence
Liberia’s Justice System: The Problem of Legal Pluralism
This Is Our Liberia and Our Attitude Toward Women
Women and Transitional Justice in Liberia
Fiction
Stephanie Horton
The Abortion (1975)
Only a Quarter
Street Sweepers
Leanya – Excerpted from the novel, Birds Are Singing, to be published posthumously 2010
The Green of Her Soul
Interviews
Saycon Sengbloh
Actress, Music Producer, Lyricist: She Who Bedazzles Us in the New World With Her Art
Poetry
Alfreda Amah-Clarke
I am lined /with color. the seat of my hand /a mother’s cradle /a wife / notes her place.
My man took up with a young thing, / iron tay-tay, Lorma butt, /waist like a snake
At 8 / The knife carves deeply / As drums sound out the piercing /Cry
Are you a trespasser bordercrosser do you have documentation
She could not / get enough to eat/ yet she kept on / having babies / and they kept on dying
Your hair like full grain corn plaited in exquisite design / Is tied around my neck
Women from all over the Kru Coast / Ritually pass snuff and bottles of / Gin, Cane Juice
and let me sing for the babies that have been / dashed along the roadside for dead.
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Geraldine McCritty Hoff
"Through art, I attempt to reveal the diversity and emotionality of the Liberian female reality. My choice of color, style and form is informed by an invitation to the viewer to enter a visual space created through an imaginative representation of every aspect of women's lives - from the most bitter and painful to the mystical, mysterious, spiritual, to the tranquil, comforting and sweet."
Go to the Art Gallery for more Geraldine McCritty Hoff paintings>>>>
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A Reading by Poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
A final cherished gift from Wilton Sankawulo, his last novel, to be published posthumously by Cotton Tree Press and set for release July 2010. Click on the book for order information.
