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- EssayChristianity, Islam and the Negro RaceEdward Wilmot Blyden · 1887An African writes from the only independent black state on the continent, on the eve of the partition of Africa.Literature
- NovelGuanya Pau: A Story of an African PrincessJoseph Jeffrey Walters · 1891A Vai princess flees the marriage to which she was promised as a child, in a Liberian novel of 1891.Literature
- TaleKpelle TalesKpelle woli-kaaAnonymous · 1930Kpelle, Bassa and Vai tales stayed outside national literature until the sixties, the country having been written from the coast and in English.Literature
- NovelLove in EbonyCharles E. Cooper · 1932The elite from America has governed the country for a century and writes in the English manner, owing nothing to the peoples of the interior.Literature
- PoetryA Song Out of MidnightRoland T. Dempster · 1960Official poetry accompanies the ceremonies of the State, and it is through it that the country's letters make themselves known to the State.Literature
- NovelMurder in the Cassava PatchBai T. Moore · 1968A short novel drawn from a real case, which became required reading in Liberian secondary schools.Literature
- EssayThoughts to Keep You ThinkingE. Toimu Reeves · 1972The country's printing press serves the state and the missions, and the short form stands in for the essay for lack of journals in which to publish one.Literature
- TaleThe Marriage of Wisdom and Other TalesWilton Sankawulo · 1974The stories of the interior move into writing in the language of the coast, carried by scholars trained by the missions.Literature
- EssayLiberianization or Gobbling Business?Albert Porte · 1974A village schoolteacher denounces a minister's conflict of interest, in a pamphlet that marked Liberia.Literature
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