BOWIER SAYS LIBERIA IS MADE OF SO SO STRANGERS
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024
- TBS VIDEO - JULY 23, 2014: Rev. Emmanuel Bowier, a eminent citizen who has a strong memory of things that happened in the past and has been reading Liberian history, characterized Liberia as a "Land of So So Strangers".
I am Ghanaian but this guy impresses me anytime I listen to him. What a knowledgeable human.
Thanks to our most enlightened Liberian Historian for such an eyeopening history lesson on our beautiful and complex country Liberia!
I stumbled upon the book "Prince Among Slaves" at the University of New Haven about 16 years ago and found it to be one of the most fascinating books I had read in a long time. Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori was a Fulani Prince, very well educated and from a very prominent Muslim royal family. His capture and journey from slavery to freedom is awe inspiring. The book and his life gives us a glimpse into life in the West African region at the time, the abolitionist movement in America, as well as the hopes and aspiration that Liberia was to hosts of slaves, bound and free. I strongly recommend it to whoever can get their hands on it. Kudos to Mamadee Diakite for this show. I just stumbled upon it and I am already a fan!
This is a true message from this man for God!!
What the Rev. Pastor said is completely true, mainly what he said at 20.00 about Krahn, Gio and S. Doe. thank you so much for all these information, in Ivory Coast we are also facing the same identity problem, excluding some as being not enough Ivorian.
Now I feel like I know my home better than I once used to!
Wow that a fastinating story I was born in Liberia in the mid sixty and thought I knew Liberian history, but I didn't know this much history. I hope this interview is put into a achieve for the Liberia historical society.
O my God. This dude is so knowledgeable.
hi
America should fully disclose the role they played in the division of Liberia and the settlers, so that the the settlers and current African Americans should stop thinking they are entitled to Liberia. We welcome all blacks nonetheless.
That is funny considering how many Liberians are in the U.S now harboring jealousy and Hate for Black Americans while living in the U.S.Sounds like hypocrisy🎉
You deserve our commendations
If the former president of Nigeria the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe was the leader of the Biafran people, then who was Imeka Ojuwku to the Biafran people ?
Who are those indigenous educated people who wrote a different historical accounts of Liberia to suit the natives ? What is the name of said history book ?
This is a real history about Liberia
You are right Sir..There are a people in Cameroun called the Bassa people..They are also a coastal people in Cameroon.Africans should stop discriminating each other.We are one.
Wow! Rip Rev Bowier... great historian
Majority of what he said have some facts. But what is more important is to harmonize the two history written by A. Doris Banks Henries and Joseph Saye Guanue.
I can't believe the insistent ignorance of the host. The Fula are as Liberian as anyone else.
I really used to like mamadee man RIP brother
How about these same Bassa people came from Liberia and went to Cameroon, Kenya,Nigeria and so forth. Anyway Africans are Africans we welcome them.
Very interesting
He said stuff that make a lots of sense but to say our country doesn't belong to anybody is simply biased. Our sovereignty is being thrown under the bus by this old man and I expect follow citizens to be very objective and not share such sentiments. This is a delicate and sensitive matter that shouldn't be taking lightly! I have got questions for this old man. No disrespect!
you have to use logic to understand what he is saying. All peoples or tribes, settlers, migrated from else where. what is so difficult about that?
Maybe you'd settle down.... I am from Ghana... the Akan people (Asantes being a part of) migrated from the region around modern day North Western Africa around what is now mainly Mauritania ... that is why the founding fathers of Ghana took on the name Ghana... infact people exist in Senegal called Gana.... the Gas in the capital of Ghana migrated from Nigeria... so did the Ewe.. the Guans who were the first to arrive in modern Ghana migrated from up North of the country part of which must be in Bourkina Faso and La Cote d'Ivoire... the Akans/Baole are in Ghana and Cote d'ivoire ... i say this to say nobody really owns the damn place... we keep migrating .... and we do not take the land with us when we leave... Just as long as we do not sell and give up our birth right...
we are all Liberian
Never they will never
Well, it is very much true that we all migrated to Liberia. The kwa speaking people from 14-1600s, the free-slaves, congos, etc. But the thing is, every human is an immigrant. According to Bible, Qur'an, or Torah, Adam and Eve left the garden and became inhabitants. According to evolution story, we evolve and migrated from place to place in search of our needs or wants. No one was born with a land in his or her hands. As we became more wise and wiser, we began to cultivate the land, settle down to a particular place and form government. Created maps and divided earth into continents and countries. Countries became sovereign and citizenship.
Everyone is a stranger in this world and migrated to where they call home today, but that doesn't mean someone from Germany is a Liberian citizen. Did this guy even go to school? Can he think logically?
Look, this talk show or whatever you may call it, is....................you be the judge.
Africa was like one big land with towns, kingdoms and villages Liberia is no acception,Liberia has always been inhibited, to suggest that Liberia was a barren land is false.
At that time strangers ment, people new in the Liberian government. Old leaders were either gone,or not in position of power.
Point of correction: there's no abayomi Cassell that wrote a history of Liberia; the correct name is Abayomi Winfrid Karnga. He was not from Nigeria, his father was from present-day D.R. Congo. His father was a fine example of the Congos people in Liberia.
There's some fallacies about the Congos. The Congo group came about when the British abolished slavery and declared that any slaver transporting slaves on British territorial waters would be seized. And great Britain had a powerful navy and naval leverage. These people were collected as slaves mostly from the two Congos and igboland in present day Nigeria. Some, if not most, of them were brought to the colony of Liberia when it was still in its infancy. They came to be called Congos because most of them were from the two Congos. They couldn't speak nor write English; they did not reach the new world. However, they increased the overall population of the settlers and helped them(original Americo-Liberians) war with the natives. Being next in line to the Americo-Liberians in terms of citizen classification, they were schooled and Christianized by same. They were also called recaptives because they were captured from their original captors. Anthony D. Williams was, in fact, "superintendent of recaptives." It is recorded that the Americo-Liberians would "frown at intermarriage" between the Congos and the natives since they were considered by Americo-Liberians as a people whose social status excelled that of native Liberians. (I mean the guest didn't have to jettison such an important aspect of Liberian history as such.)
Did you not watch the entire video? He talks about everything you just said starting at 31:50, he didn't "jettison" or skip over anything. One of the most balanced views of Liberian history I've found so far. He gives context to different group's backgrounds and tells the positive and negatives each group brought to the founding of Liberia, very informative.
for ecomog children is no surprise my former girl friend had a ecomog son called ominihu but the father died in liberia war
All African Americans should sell all assets and Move to Liberia and develop this country !
Is Mr. Bowie real name is zegbedzi or segbedji? (God of the words) thats a synonym to an ethnic Ewe name from Ghana...
Who knows the song, please? Thanks.
The abominable ignorance and bigotry of the hosts and the commanding countervailing knowledge of Mr. Bowier, the man who almost stole my girlfriend in the 80s!
You have a personal problem with him, I see. Your opinion is plagued with your allegations against the guest.
@@Blessedheartedly he’s complimenting the guest
I don’t agree with everything in the Vai story. We are known travelers and before Mali we were in East Africa. How can he say they never seen the sea? And what kinda just wanna talk in times of war? He na know who is who
It's. Ojukwo
we not going to add another tribes on our tribes list any more, the 16 tribes list is enough for us
+방장군 take ur ass out of here
Mandingo is not a tribe so it not a liberian tribe. Mandingoes are all people from upper guinea and Mali.
mr bowier we have a living witness winston tubman is right here in liberia winston tubman have no liberian connection do you know that he was adapted tubman brought at age 5 ia dont know the exact country but he he have no liberian connection
Burkina Faso or Mali. I think his father was Tubman's voodoo man.
I am told by the son of someone who knew te late father of Mr. Winston Tubman that Mr. Winston Tubman is of Togolese descent.
it seem that, the fullahness and other tribes pay you some money to add them on our tribes list but you get it wrong
Challenge his facts and relinquish your own beliefs.
mr bowier to add more to your story did you know that the current vice pressdent of liberia joseph boakai ia a typical sierra leonean his brothers i myself were in elementry school in the kailahun district he speaks mende language like i do iam from bellefanai where the late tolbert have his farm am a kpelleh my uncle is the late politician gabriel kpolleh we are from a small village called kwetai between bellefanei and camp naama where my father as aclerk for long timebut went to school in sierra leone where i know joseph boakai you can ask the dumber family dereck dumber ketrick dumber on the mission in kenema we are all strangers thats true and the kpelleh people are not from liberia we from sudan and the mende people they all came to liberia after the fall of the sunghai empire under sundiata keita a fula man
The Vai, Mande, Lormah, Dahn(Gio), Manno, mandingo, Soso, and many other tribes in west Africa also belong to the Mande language group...
Sundiata Keita was a MANDINGO man. He was not a Fulani. The name KEITA is a prominent MANDINGO. Additionally, the Mandingo, Kpelle, Vai, Mende, Loma, Gbandi, Gio, Mano, Dialonke (Jalonke), and several other tribes in Wes Africa belong to the large MANDE group.
who's this Korean man commenting on Liberia here go to north Korea.
Don't mind him Brother Osman Kamara , I don't know where he came form with his history calling it LIBERIA'S history ?
I don't know he's trying to rewrite our country LIBERIA'S history ?
LIBERIA is built upon 16 TRIBES plus Americo-Liberian and Congo PEOPLE that make up the Union of LIBERIA.
1 . Basaa
2. Bele
3. Dein
4 . Ghandi
5 . Grebo
6. Gola
7 . Gio
8. Kissi
9 . Kpelleh
10..Mano
11 . Mandingo
12 . Mende
13 . Krahn
14 . Lorma
15 . Kru
16 . Vai
And Americo-Liberian/Congo
Period. Yessssssss!!!!!!
LIBERIA has 16
Mr. Ousman Kamar, is Rev. Emmanuel Bowier of Korean descent? I am interested in his origin. I am contemplating writing a book about Africa. Naturally, Liberia will feature prominently. I am very much interested in your beautiful country, Liberia.
He is wrong on many statements.
1) Duwala , Konola, Sinkor, Dukor, Saketa, Bentor, etc are kpelle words.
2) Massaquoi means the chief Leopold; has nothing to do with the ocean; check Lorma, Mende, etc.
3) He didn't talk about the Fanti, Ashanti
4) In his reasoning we are also South African, Europian, etc
5) Mandigo (Suso, Quoiyankai, Menekai, Fula, ) is kpelle english word referencing the people from the Mali Empire and all tribes from upper guinea or north Africa. Of they can all become citizens.
6) He doesn't know the liberian history much.
I didn’t understand anything you said my friend
Liberia is not an African Nation...
We (as African) can truly improve the essence of this artificial creation (Liberia) only if we are rooted in our native/indigenous culture.
This individual is an imposter masquerading as a historian.
It's important to note that Grand-Bassam has no connection whatsoever to Bassa .
hahahaah, he is ignorant for real! every where have indigenous people Australia here have indigenous people united States have indigenous. but you know why? many people are not willing to challenge his ignorance. that is why he keeps saying nonsense.
+방장군 yes but we are talking about liberia stupid not america
mr bowier the bassa in cameroun dont have no connection with the bassas in liberia i had a camerounia work mate who told me the samething
Frank Jackson u are highly incorrect! The Bassa are all over Africa mostly in west and central. Bassa-nge of Nigeria bassa-ir of salone bassa in congo and bassa in Cameroon are all the same. Some historians have stated the bassa of Liberia come from Cameroon.
They speak the same language
The dude is so wrong in many points.