Why President Taylor Should Not Be Granted Honorary Degree By Morehouse College?
A statement issued by the Liaberian Association of Metropolitan Atlanta on August 25, 1999 As the world undergoes dramatic democratic transformation and is poised to enter the next millennium, it is the hope of most Africans that Africa and the people of African descent everywhere will become the major beneficiaries in the quest for creating a democratic society and bringing the prosperity of the world to those who have least benefited in the last century. Liberians in Atlanta and elsewhere in these United States remain sanguine that Liberia will assume its rightful place amongst the world community of nations as the world prepares for the next century. But Liberia cannot prepare for the next century if the conditions necessary for making such transition continually remain absent. Having emerged from a seven-year civil war, and now in Taylor’s second year as president of post-war Liberia, the vestiges of the past not only linger but have worsened since Mr. Taylor ascended to the presid
