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“Invoking Martin Luther King, Jr, Cornel West once said that an activist is someone who is ‘maladjusted to injustice’. We should all be activists; I certainly am.”
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“I wrote Gbagba and Jaadeh! with the intention of starting a bloodless, ethical ‘revolution from below’, using children as my allies.”
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Check out this detailed Analyst News story about my 7 July presentation to the Plenary of Liberia’s House of Representatives. Such precise reporting, with quotes, illuminates the timeliness of my #research on #Liberia’s and #SierraLeone’s ‘Negro’ clauses. analystliberiaonline.com/dr-pailey-ch...
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) 6:57 · Jul 10, 2026
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