SLAD Liberia Art Collective: “A Dance Around War” | Freda Koomson“Please tell
SLAD Liberia Art Collective: “A Dance Around War” | Freda Koomson
“Please tell my people I’m gone”. Those were Emmanuel Lavelah’s last words to someone he recalls meeting at the port before his departure from Liberia to Sierra Leone in 1990. Liberia’s president Samuel Doe had recently been captured and the threads of the country’s precariously woven fabric were beginning to unravel. War was on the horizon. Emmanuel had made up his mind to not be left behind by his older brothers who had been planning to leave their mother in his care. At the mere age of 18, Emmanuel arrived in a new land alone. “Sometimes when anything is part of you, and you reach to a new area, you want to remember where you come from”.
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