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• CNN Opinion Contributor - "Liberia's tortured history -- and happy ending"

[Excerpt] By Diane Jordan-Grizzard, Special to CNN
September 24, 2010 9:27 a.m. ED

Cincinnati,Ohio (CNN) -- I moved to Liberia in 1979 believing I could make a difference in the world. I opened a business and served as a midwife. I fell in love with Liberian culture and I enjoyed palm wine and palm butter.

Yet I was naïve to the complicated history of Liberia and the impact it would have on the people I knew, the future of Liberia, and me.

Over time, though, I came to realize how Liberia's small settler population had established absolute dominion over the rest of the nation, to the country's detriment. Opportunities to garner human potential and include indigenous populations in the political and economic fabric went missing for more than a century. Now the nation's former president, Charles Taylor, is on trial at The Hague, and Liberia's ironies have been revealed.

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