Music had a big role to play both during and in the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola epidemic. I found that out when I visited Monrovia in August. A lot of artists wrote songs about the personal experiences people had facing the disease. Henry Amazin’ Toe, a.k.a Amaze, is a well-established hipco artist who composed and […]
Music Post-Ebola: Artist Amaze says Hipco Songs Made Tremendous Impact
Posted September 20th, 2016 at 2:21 pm (UTC-5)
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Monrovia Music: Introducing Liberia’s Hipco Star Teddy Ride
Posted September 16th, 2016 at 12:28 pm (UTC-5)
On August 9th, 2016 I visited Liberia, about eight months after it was declared Ebola Free. My VOA colleague Jackson Mvunganyi and I went as a team to learn the role music played during and after the epidemic that ravaged that country in 2014-2015. We held a Town Hall meeting and over six days met with […]
Lost Liberian 45s from the 1960s
Posted March 4th, 2008 at 11:28 pm (UTC-5)
The 1960s were a time of optimism, relative prosperity, and rapid growth in Monrovia, the ocean-side capital of Liberia. For almost one hundred and fifty years the city had been the economic, political, and social hub of the ‘Americo-Liberian’ community, who had governed the country since July 26, 1847, when the independence of the Republic […]
