All Entries in the "Commentary" Category
GGAA Committed To Transparency and Accountability
Says – Fred Gwyan’s Allegations Are Baseless and Borders on Poor Judgments Philadelphia, PA, January 25, 2012: The National Administration of the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas (GGAA) has read with grave concern an article published in the Independent Eye – an online news magazine which is attributed to Mr. Fred T. Gwyan, former [...]
…THE ROAD TO REBUILDING LIBERIA’S FUTURE
Why Liberia must not fail The Road to Rebuilding Liberia’s Future By Jackson Blamo The past six years have ushered relative peace, but fragile stability in Liberia. As Africa’s oldest republic, the nation has endured years of degradation and neglect, as a result of bad governance, corruption, government’s mis-management, fraud, waste and abuse and a [...]
A Rejoinder to “We Must Make a Difference”
On January 20, 2011, the Editor in Chief of the MN Web, Mr. Tarnyon Nyenon wrote an editorial titled: “We Must Make the Difference”. In that editorial, Mr. Nyenon somehow amused me with his adroit writing style, especially when it came to the recognition of media institutions owned and operated by institutions of Grand Gedeans. [...]
Bai M. Gbala Writes President Obama
BMGBai M. Gbala 1335 N. 59th Street . Philadelphia . Pennsylvania 19151-4411 Tel.(1-215)471-3380, Res. (1-215)609-5472, Mobile . Email:bai_gbala@yahoo.com November 30, 2010 His Excellency Barak Obama President, United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D. C. 20500 Ref: Appeal/Request Dear Mr. President: It is my honor and privilege, most respectfully, to present [...]
Tribute to An Outstanding Western Missionary
By: Edmund Zar-Zar Bargblor, M.Ed. Mankind, down through the ages has come to cry for knowledge and more knowledge. Around us, everything is changing and nothing seems permanent and fixed. The mountains crumble away, the rivers dry up in the Sahara Desert, and cease to flow, islands sink and new seas are formed. The great [...]
NYENON WRITES AMB. TARR
His Excellency, Harold G. Tarr, Sr. Liberia’s Former Ambassador, to the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso & Mali now Displaced in the USA My Dearest Ambassador Tarr, I am constrained to write you this open letter to let you and your fellow tribal bigots and the whole wide world know the role you played in the [...]
YOU TOO GBALA?
It is often said that “the older, the wiser” and “wise man changes”. We are also reminded that we always run to the Oracle of our Elders for pieces of advice and disputes settling. History also reminds us that the “Town Crier” is only a Messenger from the Oracle, the Elders or the Town Chief. [...]
The Origins of the Conflict within the GGAA-Edmund Zar-Zar Bargblor
The Origins of the Conflict within the Grand Gedeh Association and the Struggle to Finding a Workable Solution The migration of Liberian refugees into the United States, since the start of the Liberian civil war, December 24, 1989, compelled community-based nonprofits organizations to take upon themselves to provide social and economic safety-net for their fellow [...]
PARALLEL “ADMINISTRATIONS” & POLARIZATION: THE CASE OF THE GRAND GEDEH ASSOCIATION USA & CALL FOR UNITY-Bai Gbala
Although there have been and still are carefully-crafted, provocative Press Releases of claims & counter-claims; charges & counter-charges; name-calling & character assassinations; mud-slinging & political-profiling; planned different national conventions/elections by two Grand Gedeh Association “Administrations” USA, at different venues on the same day and in the city of Philadelphia; and although after the visit to [...]
LOOKING BACK WHILE MOVING FORWARD – Zedueh Albert Doerue
Zoenenneh Taiee of Tchien and Diahn Gee-Zoh of Gborho were warriors in our region fighting to defend our people… not to mention Chiefs Deh Suah, Kaown Bargblor, Toe Gblor-gbe, Charlie Kparsuah, Solo Bloe, Charlie Gwien, etc. The latter contested chieftainship and served respectively years back in Grand Gedeh County. Citizens from all chiefdoms stood in [...]
“IS IT THE SAME JAMES YOUBOTY I ONCE IDOLIZED?”-Kwame Oldpa Weeks
On Friday, April 24th, when I turned on my computer, I saw a caption titled “MESSAGE TO GRAND GEDEANS,” so I decided to click on that first before going to others. Upon opening it, I could not believe what I was seeing, the nude corpse of Liberia’s 19th President, Samuel Kanyon Doe. The message came from a man who I once idolized as [...]
A FAREWELL TRIBUTE TO GEN. J. HEZEKIAH BOWEN-By Arthur B. Dennis
The first time I met General Bowen was in March of 1971 in the Officer Candidate School at the Military Academy in Todee. We graduated in October of the same year and received promotion to the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was the best-dressed officer in our class. Interim Government of National Unity General Bowen [...]
THE ELDERS AND THE GRAND GEDEH ASSOCIATION: A RESPONSE
From a background of traditional, rural, Liberian society with a dose of Liberian-western (USA) education and my recent experience here USA, the question posed by Mr. Jerry Gbardy should really be are the young people prepared and willing to listen to, respect and obey the advice of their elders – the voice of years of [...]
TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN SOLDIER-Joseph Kweedy Solo
News has reached us about the death of Lt. General John Hezekiah Bowen which took place in Monrovia after a brief illness. Bowen, a three star general recently retired from the Liberian Army after over thirty years of service. He joined the Liberian Army in 1969. He was in the same recruited class with the [...]
GIVE GLAY WHAT HE WANTS-Kwame Oldpa Weeks
BEFORE DELVING into my thesis, I like to give a little historical perspective about what I intend to discuss. On Sunday, May 24th 2009, the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas (GGAA), held its general and presidential elections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which challenger, Adolphine Kannah and her Kannah/Yonly Team and incumbent, Henry Glay and [...]
THE BREEZE INITIATIVE-Tarnyon Nyenon
Ever since the May, 2009 general and presidential elections within the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas (GGAA), in which the Kannah/Yonly team was declared winner by an eight vote margin, over the Glay/Yoway team, there has been a foul cry and even claims to the GGAA Presidency by the latter. The Glay/Yoway team has [...]
