“Usually wars or crises provide a new germination, if you will, like a forest that burns down and where new vegetation sprouts,” notes Liberian poet, Cherbo Geeplay. As well as established Liberian writers known to the international reading public such as Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Wayetu Moore and Vamba Sherif, one finds poet Cherbo Geeplay. has been a cause of concern in places like Liberia, where no efforts have been made to develop nor teach African languages”. You can only draw inspiration from Liberian culture. It is this same kind of thinking displayed by emerging writers including Geeplay: that literature and scholarship can inspire new heights.

Source: Front Page Africa May 18, 2021 04:58 UTC