My name is Emmanuel Garlo from liberia grand gedeh county Konobo. I miss you liberia hope to see you again there is no place better than home no matter what.
If those 40 years you're talking about Liberians was building Liberia 🇱🇷 then it could have been better than Ghana, Ivory Coast, and other African countries but they decided to kill each other and burn down their infrastructure. Do you think to build it easy?? Now it is time to rebuild. Roads, schools, hospitals, Markets houses and you name it. We don't want any more senseless war in our country. Thanks
Worked in Monrovia in 1979/80 and was there on 12th April 1980 when Doe took over. Had to leave after a couple of months as business was so bad. Travelled around the country - Harper / Buchanan and also upcountry - and the income disparity was obvious. It needed more engagement to resolve that fault line. Reading the news of the horrors of the resultant turmoil was sad in the extreme and my thoughts were always with the many good people that i met during my time in Liberia.
It really was a beautiful country used to live opposite the Chinese embassy and next door to the Swedish Embassy... Corruption and oppression was the downfall ..
Extremely unfortunate what occurred in Liberia. However, ,It was only a matter of time before Liberia erupted into conflicts . It’s called Human nature especially when one set of people hold on to power for decades while neglecting the larger demographics. Liberia was a ticking “TIME BOMB’. So sad...
I remember Liberia's play boys used to fly to Atlantic City in the US on weekends just to gamble and come back by the middle of the following week. The US dollar was the only money. That's how good they had it. And a certain country man took over.
The playboys should have been sharing and making sure the whole country was taken cared of. Going to waste the country money in the same America they had to leave to be free🙄
This isn't about Americo Liberians or whosoever. It's about having the country at heart as a leader. A leader must have purpose. A leader must be selfless.
I was only 2 yrs old back then but I still remember how proud my mom was when speaking about Monrovia how all Africans will come in such of a better life and how the country did embrace all until the civil war change everything well that's where we are hoping that this President can turn things around thanks for your clip
Brutal minority rule is beautiful for you?? Why didnt the AA develop the rest of the country like they did Monrovia?? Always barking for yo Cra cker Mas suhs, aint you boy?? Shameful chapter under AA rule over. Just like South Africa, Rhodesia & Algeria, Liberia has been liberated from Minority Settler-rule.
@@MegaLadylove2012 Like all oppressors, you are sad for the AA minority. No empathy for the indigenous majority who were brutally oppressed by the AA elite. Shameful chapter under AA rule over. Just like South Africa, Rhodesia & Algeria, Liberia has been liberated from Minority Settler-rule. Time to liberate Amerikkka!!
OMG this was my parents them time. Way before some of my elders siblings were born. We had photos of my father holding my sister at JFK hospital. Some of the street in this video are similar to those in his photos. I wonder what life was like Monrovia back then.
A film on 1970. President Tubman died in power on 23 July 1971 when Tolbert was a Vice President. Why should the introduction show a sign board of Tobert and Sekou Toure as Presidents?
Can't pass judgments unnecessarily in relations to doing what is right. Things happens to bring orders into play, form Devine perspectives as we are seeing today with NATO and Russia. That being said there's no turning back now. Liberia moves forward forever.
This is 1970, 10 yrs before april 12, 1980. Look at liberia or monrovia by 1985 then you will say something else. Liberia was slowly going down from 1980.
When Liberia was beautiful and refreshing, but than an uneducated Man came around the early 80 and started to take away the beauty this country had. Not realizing the American that power him in was only trying to benefits the barging, but at some point his rebellion took a different roots and things got really nasty by the early 90. Lots of lives were taken away as the so called American stood by and watch this beautiful nation came to pieces. The 21st century and things has gotten worse the country is destroyed daily by young politicians coming back home pretending to help develop this land all in the name of the US dollars. No gd hospitals, running water, electricity or traffic light, school, or a decent apartment that were once the beauty of the sub surrounding the capital.
@@tlig It was the most or alreast among the most developed country in Africa when Americo-Liberians were in charge. The country in the 1970s had a per capita income equivalent to that of Japan. www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/liberia/economy.htm
This is why conservative and traditional values are good. Blacks can also do it, they do not have to buy into that BLM Anarchist crap. Shout out to the woken Black brothers.
Quite frankly, I have been a Liberian since I was born. And the fact that, Liberians are still dreaming about the 50s, 60s and 70s, is viewed by many native Liberians are shameful and embarrassing. I say this because, there is nothing great about a period in our country when the majority of the population was deprived and made second class citizens in a land they have occupied since generations and generations. Liberia is not Monrovia. And, the pictures in this mini video doesn't depicts the entire country. But, the petite enclave of the #rulingclass vis a vis Monrovia. For many of us today, Liberia maybe a broken country, bearing the scars of the war years.... and bad governance under 12 years of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. But, let it be told to all men and women in the Earth and above, that Liberia will #RiseAgain from the shadows of divisiveness and bitterness. Liberia will be born as a #OneNation where there will be no class or the so called brainwashing of the Natives against the Natives. Liberia is struggling because for 133 years the government never prioritizes education, development and democracy. So, today we're seeing a very new country where everyone is being able to participate in the national revolution. We are better off now, because we are all part of the New Dispensation of our society. We're better off now, not because we don't have the development like other countries. But because our society has advanced from the past " So Says One, So Says All".... Today we barely see domestic slavery in our society. Today, not just the Americos Liberians can run for National Assembly, or the Presidency, Chief Justice, but all worthy members of the society are eligible for every position in the New Republic. That's progress for us all 👍🏾🙏🏾👏🏾🥂 The road to lasting success, peace and prosperity will be rough. But it takes a very determined approach by the government and the people to make the sacrifices of lifting Liberia from the decadence of the society. The future is now. Liberia needs genuine support, not any more unbalanced views. We will get there 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
If only the US just take the coast and left those natives in the jungle and colonized by the french, maybe liberia will be the most progressive and stable African nation (and many Black American would buy property and retired there too)
I am crying to see how beautiful Liberia was😭😭😭😭😭😭
My name is Emmanuel Garlo from liberia grand gedeh county Konobo. I miss you liberia hope to see you again there is no place better than home no matter what.
Sweet Liberia I do missed the GOOD old DAYS. God blessed Mama LiB.
Can you imagine Monrovia/Liberia was more beautiful 42 years ago than it is today ?! It is a shame!!!!
All this ruined by Ghaddafi who gave Taylor weapons . The rest is history.
What beauty are you talking about?
If those 40 years you're talking about Liberians was building Liberia 🇱🇷 then it could have been better than Ghana, Ivory Coast, and other African countries but they decided to kill each other and burn down their infrastructure. Do you think to build it easy?? Now it is time to rebuild. Roads, schools, hospitals, Markets houses and you name it. We don't want any more senseless war in our country. Thanks
@@samueld.parley2579 obviously you don't know the difference between Liberia of 1970 and Liberia of 2022.
@@gielman916 nope, it was right after the revolution in 1980 that destroyed liberia.
Worked in Monrovia in 1979/80 and was there on 12th April 1980 when Doe took over. Had to leave after a couple of months as business was so bad. Travelled around the country - Harper / Buchanan and also upcountry - and the income disparity was obvious. It needed more engagement to resolve that fault line. Reading the news of the horrors of the resultant turmoil was sad in the extreme and my thoughts were always with the many good people that i met during my time in Liberia.
Sir did u work in the government??..i got a very important question..about a man .. He was a NSA director
His name was Spencer O. Edris
So did I - 1978 Til 1982 - Best Time of my Life
May this beautiful land of liberty never again witness war between her people. 😢😢
Thanks for posting - lived in liberia before Doe's failed Liberia.. beautiful country, beautiful people..
It was so beautiful the indigenous Liberians destroyed it.
It really was a beautiful country used to live opposite the Chinese embassy and next door to the Swedish Embassy... Corruption and oppression was the downfall ..
Extremely unfortunate what occurred in Liberia. However,
,It was only a matter of time before Liberia erupted into conflicts . It’s called Human nature especially when one set of people hold on to power for decades while neglecting the larger demographics. Liberia was a ticking “TIME BOMB’. So sad...
This makes me want to cry honestly 🥺🥺🥺
I remember Liberia's play boys used to fly to Atlantic City in the US on weekends just to gamble and come back by the middle of the following week. The US dollar was the only money. That's how good they had it. And a certain country man took over.
The playboys should have been sharing and making sure the whole country was taken cared of. Going to waste the country money in the same America they had to leave to be free🙄
#Foreal
What's a beautiful country I can't imagine that Liberia was like that.
She will return to her old glory.
Lucky Dube “Fugitive” instrumental. Love it. Fits the narrative
My thanks for sharing these historical insights.Great job. 🙏🙏🙏
I miss my home my people Sweet Liberia I love no other country but U
Thank you for such production, this very hopeful against the hopelessness Liberians are experiencing.
This should be viewed by those who think war is a justified medium of settling misunderstanding.
This isn't about Americo Liberians or whosoever. It's about having the country at heart as a leader. A leader must have purpose. A leader must be selfless.
Liberia before is beautiful than Liberia today, absolutely the new generation brought nothing good rather hate and war.
Thanks for sharing
une superbe musique instrumental
Liberia before the useless war that they fought
Same as Syria beautiful countries fighting each other 😥
We will only hope for the best can't continue to compare the past, long live Liberia.
I was only 2 yrs old back then but I still remember how proud my mom was when speaking about Monrovia how all Africans will come in such of a better life and how the country did embrace all until the civil war change everything well that's where we are hoping that this President can turn things around thanks for your clip
What a beautiful throwback!?
Brutal minority rule is beautiful for you?? Why didnt the AA develop the rest of the country like they did Monrovia??
Always barking for yo Cra cker Mas suhs, aint you boy?? Shameful chapter under AA rule over. Just like South Africa, Rhodesia & Algeria, Liberia has been liberated from Minority Settler-rule.
great instrumental
If was back in the 1970s I would have moved to Liberia.
Wow! Looks beautiful! My wife and I are going to plan our honeymoon there now.
This was then hun. Sry to disappoint you. 14 years of civil war has taken a great toll on the country. Sad
@@MegaLadylove2012 Like all oppressors, you are sad for the AA minority. No empathy for the indigenous majority who were brutally oppressed by the AA elite. Shameful chapter under AA rule over. Just like South Africa, Rhodesia & Algeria, Liberia has been liberated from Minority Settler-rule. Time to liberate Amerikkka!!
love ...
OMG this was my parents them time. Way before some of my elders siblings were born. We had photos of my father holding my sister at JFK hospital. Some of the street in this video are similar to those in his photos. I wonder what life was like Monrovia back then.
Wooow! ♥️🇱🇷🙏🙏🙏
Move forward people. Focus on the future, now the past. It is all over, we can not build a better future for all of us.
Miss you sweetie
Shameful chapter under AA rule over. Just like South Africa, Rhodesia & Algeria, Liberia has been liberated from Minority Settler-rule.
😍😍😍😍
War just destroyed all peace.. Don't war don fight..peace
Nice picture, thanks be to God Almighty.
So Downcast... Sweet Home Mama! Long live Mama
This is the year I was born right over there/ Fire 🔥 stom was orangen home was born there
Wow
Before it became Doe's Liberia
I see massive income inequality in this version of Liberia.... no wonder there was a civilian uprising smh
There is massive inequalities in every country
Yea and now Liberia is a bigger dump thanks to that "civilian uprising"
A film on 1970. President Tubman died in power on 23 July 1971 when Tolbert was a Vice President. Why should the introduction show a sign board of Tobert and Sekou Toure as Presidents?
Can't pass judgments unnecessarily in relations to doing what is right. Things happens to bring orders into play, form Devine perspectives as we are seeing today with NATO and Russia. That being said there's no turning back now. Liberia moves forward forever.
what's the name of this song
Lucky Dube- Fugitive
This is 1970, 10 yrs before april 12, 1980. Look at liberia or monrovia by 1985 then you will say something else. Liberia was slowly going down from 1980.
what music is this, its neat
Lucky Dube- Fugitive
Was there technology like this?
Down water side it’s the name of that place there
Senseless wars destroyed this country
When Liberia was beautiful and refreshing, but than an uneducated Man came around the early 80 and started to take away the beauty this country had. Not realizing the American that power him in was only trying to benefits the barging, but at some point his rebellion took a different roots and things got really nasty by the early 90. Lots of lives were taken away as the so called American stood by and watch this beautiful nation came to pieces. The 21st century and things has gotten worse the country is destroyed daily by young politicians coming back home pretending to help develop this land all in the name of the US dollars. No gd hospitals, running water, electricity or traffic light, school, or a decent apartment that were once the beauty of the sub surrounding the capital.
It is a wonderful nation
It started when Tubman died. He was a good ole guy. Maybe he could have done more, but he wasn't an evil man. After that, it slowly went to hell.
Jesus...!!!! We can not call your name and you fail us! Let your will be done, papa! One day, the trauma will be wiped out of our country! 🙏🏾🤭😩🙈😢
What happened. So promising. Lived in Liberia '86 to '88. Samuel Kanton Doe really ate that country up. Charles ate what was left.
Where have we gone wrong?
Austin Gahr war
Beautiful. But what a shame......
It will rise again
Liberia today is better than Liberia yesterday
Liberia without Doe it would have been very beautiful look this was 1970
Indigenous Liberians turned it into a shit hole Americo Liberians made it the most developed country in Africa
@@charleswatkins8695 It was never the most developed country in West Africa, let alone all of Africa.
@@tlig come again, how was it not, especially without the aide of colonial powers. Name the country built from scratch?
@@tlig
It was the most or alreast among the most developed country in Africa when Americo-Liberians were in charge. The country in the 1970s had a per capita income equivalent to that of Japan.
www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/liberia/economy.htm
WOW , I BELIEVE MOST OF THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THOSE PHOTOS ARE PROBABLY NOT ALIVE ANYMORE AFTER FROM DECEMBER 24TH 1989 TO 2003 CIVIL WAR IN LIBERIA .
sow
Ohh Liberia mehn, sweet land of liberty, but doing that days Liberia was like america mehn
This is why conservative and traditional values are good. Blacks can also do it, they do not have to buy into that BLM Anarchist crap. Shout out to the woken Black brothers.
redeeming the past
This country is done forever and such a shameful chapter to humanity..
Shameful chapter under AA rule over. Just like South Africa, Rhodesia & Algeria, Liberia has been freed from Minority Settler-rule.
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Now we have all so-called educated fools .
The devil destroyed our beautiful country mama Liberia.
Freeman Toman Liberians destroyed Liberia.
it was the CIA, something people don't talk about,
🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
Hmmmmm I'm not seeing nothing good here oooo
If anyone knows Mr.Quency. Tell him to give my $1500 back which I borrowed to him.
That seems like a personal problem...
Hahahahaha
Not late we can do better
Yes
Quite frankly, I have been a Liberian since I was born. And the fact that, Liberians are still dreaming about the 50s, 60s and 70s, is viewed by many native Liberians are shameful and embarrassing. I say this because, there is nothing great about a period in our country when the majority of the population was deprived and made second class citizens in a land they have occupied since generations and generations. Liberia is not Monrovia. And, the pictures in this mini video doesn't depicts the entire country. But, the petite enclave of the #rulingclass vis a vis Monrovia.
For many of us today, Liberia maybe a broken country, bearing the scars of the war years.... and bad governance under 12 years of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. But, let it be told to all men and women in the Earth and above, that Liberia will #RiseAgain from the shadows of divisiveness and bitterness. Liberia will be born as a #OneNation where there will be no class or the so called brainwashing of the Natives against the Natives. Liberia is struggling because for 133 years the government never prioritizes education, development and democracy. So, today we're seeing a very new country where everyone is being able to participate in the national revolution. We are better off now, because we are all part of the New Dispensation of our society. We're better off now, not because we don't have the development like other countries. But because our society has advanced from the past " So Says One, So Says All"....
Today we barely see domestic slavery in our society. Today, not just the Americos Liberians can run for National Assembly, or the Presidency, Chief Justice, but all worthy members of the society are eligible for every position in the New Republic.
That's progress for us all 👍🏾🙏🏾👏🏾🥂
The road to lasting success, peace and prosperity will be rough. But it takes a very determined approach by the government and the people to make the sacrifices of lifting Liberia from the decadence of the society. The future is now. Liberia needs genuine support, not any more unbalanced views.
We will get there 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
Whatever happened to that place there today only God one knows why they did that kind of evil thing to those poor people who were living in there.
If only the US just take the coast and left those natives in the jungle and colonized by the french, maybe liberia will be the most progressive and stable African nation (and many Black American would buy property and retired there too)
Shameful chapter under AA rule over. Just like South Africa, Rhodesia & Algeria, Liberia has been liberated from Minority Settler-rule.
Dame it's sad watching this. I which Liberia looks better in 2024. Liberian really love Liberia, but we're just tired of the bs
Just gos to show how war can decimate a country smh
Thanks for sharing