Ohio Short Histories of Africa: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Noting the good that the Nobel Peace Prize did for Liberia, Scully explains that those outside West Africa who knew the country did so mainly because of its association with the mid-nineteenth century arrival of freed slaves (or Americo-Liberians or African Americans) and the civil war started in the early 2000s by militias. [...]it is unsurprising that Monrovia, the capital of the country, took its name from Monroe's.