A mother grapples with the loss of her unborn child. A young teenage girl stands up to a tyrannical chief and suffers abuse as a result. Her courageous stance against injustice becomes the catalyst that frees her clan from oppression. A juvenile disobeys his grandmother and breaks a closely protected tradition. His action exposes the clan to danger. The dying words of his grandma inspires him to rise above personality flaws to become the greatest leader of his people. This book is a creative portrait of Liberia, Africa’s oldest republic. It is a subtle look at how an attempt at self-determination by a group of African former slaves’ backfires when they are given the golden opportunity to prove their former slave masters wrong. Their excesses create fault lines that plunge the nation into anarchy when ostracized and repressed indigenous Liberians take matters into their own hands and leave the nation bogged down in an existential battle with itself. The message of the book does not just resonate with the poignancy of profound loss and traumatic change, it drives the discourse that generates the courage to overcome them..
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Obed Dolo
Obed Weayen Dolo, MD, passionately loves his country Liberia. As a keen observer and commentator of the country’s pulse and heartbeats, he combines an acute awareness of politics and social dynamics with his infatuation with literature to create riveting time capsules of the nation’s life. He rose from abject poverty to become a medical doctor– a leap from a slum kid to a surgeon. As a consultant obstetrician/gynecologist who has spent many years at the frontlines of Liberia’s war with maternal and newborn mortality, he has witnessed the ramifications of Liberia’s social breakdown firsthand. While engaged in the battle to bring relief to a hurting nation, he suffered a massive stroke in 2020. He has refused to succumb to its debility and continues to find ways to remain useful to society.
He is a practicing Christian, married to a beautiful and strong Liberian woman, Kendra Dolo, for 27 years. Together they have three lovely children, Nigel, 25, Colin 21, and Jason,17.
Obed remains a strong advocate of social justice, especially women’s rights. His strongest wish for Liberia is that she may overcome her sordid past to truly become the Sweet Land of Liberty it was meant to be.
