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Author: Robtel Neajai Pailey

Robtel Neajai Pailey

Robtel Neajai Pailey is a Liberian academic, activist and author of the anti-corruption children’s book Gbagba.

  • Robtel Neajai Pailey with her kids anti-corruption book Gbagba at the Africa Writes festival. Credit: Ivan Gonzalez.
    Society
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    May 31, 2017
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    Legal invisibility was the best thing to happen to me

    I became an undocumented migrant at age six and it changed my life. For the millions of undocumented migrants across the globe, life unfolds above ground, ...
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  • Society
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    June 7, 2016
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    Where is the ‘African’ in African Studies?

    We need to put the ‘African’ in African Studies, not as a token gesture, but as an affirmation that Africans have always produced knowledge about their continent. ...
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  • Politics
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    June 11, 2015
    2258
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    In a World Obsessed with Passport Tiers, Citizenship Is Personal and Political – By Robtel Neajai Pailey

    Late last week, I was informed that I would not be able to travel to Dubai for an important meeting scheduled months ago. Like other countries ...
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  • Politics
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    August 23, 2013
    1523
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    Liberia: Children in the Fight Against Corruption – By Robtel Neajai Pailey

    MONROVIA, Liberia – I remember the first time I stared corruption in the face. It was 2010, and I was chairwoman of a Liberian government committee ...
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  • Politics
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    July 18, 2013
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    Why Liberia’s Proposed Dual Citizenship Legislation Should Be Based on Evidence, Not Sentiments – By Robtel Neajai Pailey

    Cecil Frank is an unassuming man, but he’s got some firebrand politics. His is a story that typifies the peculiar migratory history of Liberia””a country “˜founded’ ...
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  • Politics
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    March 6, 2012
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    Liberians Approach Oil Finds with Caution – By Robtel Neajai Pailey

    News released at the end of February that Liberia was on the cusp of an unprecedented oil discovery garnered much more than just praise and adulation. ...
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  • Politics
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    January 20, 2012
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    Charles Taylor a CIA Informant “” Liberia’s Relationship with the US needs to be retooled – By Robtel Neajai Pailey

    This op-ed was written based on a front page Boston Globe article on Jan. 17, which asserted that Charles Taylor was a CIA informant. However, the ...
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  • Politics
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    December 16, 2011
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    ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’ and the making of Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Laureate – By Robtel Neajai Pailey

    In 2009 I screened the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell in Monrovia, Liberia, with a group of Liberian women “” young and old “” ...
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  • Politics
    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    October 19, 2011
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    Liberia 2011 Elections Will Determine Its Political Maturity – By Robtel Neajai Pailey

    I came back to Liberia to vote in our general and presidential elections for the first time in my life, and discovered a politically charged milieu. ...
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