Grebo

"We lost, triumphantly," says Grebo, now a professor of law at Sarajevo University, but with wilder eyes than one would expect from a law professor.

War Child and the Bosnian war 15 years on 2010

Veda was one of the many Liberians whose ancestors had helped make Liberia a melting pot of the African diaspora: her father was Cameroonian and her mother was born to a Grebo woman, Alma Quadayou Carter whose real name was changed from Cala to Carter because the missionaries wanted the converts westernized, and a naturalized Togolese man, Adolf Ajavon.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

Jacob Doboyu was Grebo and a dead ringer for Nelson Mandela.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

We were civilized Congo People with American roots, so nobody was sending Mommee off to the Grebo bush when she was fourteen to get circumcised and to learn how to be one of umpteen wives to some husband.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

Veda was one of the many Liberians whose ancestors had helped make Liberia a melting pot of the African diaspora: her father was Cameroonian and her mother was born to a Grebo woman, Alma Quadayou Carter whose real name was changed from Cala to Carter because the missionaries wanted the converts westernized, and a naturalized Togolese man, Adolf Ajavon.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

Veda was one of the many Liberians whose ancestors had helped make Liberia a melting pot of the African diaspora: her father was Cameroonian and her mother was born to a Grebo woman, Alma Quadayou Carter whose real name was changed from Cala to Carter because the missionaries wanted the converts westernized, and a naturalized Togolese man, Adolf Ajavon.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

Jacob Doboyu was Grebo and a dead ringer for Nelson Mandela.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

We were civilized Congo People with American roots, so nobody was sending Mommee off to the Grebo bush when she was fourteen to get circumcised and to learn how to be one of umpteen wives to some husband.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

We were civilized Congo People with American roots, so nobody was sending Mommee off to the Grebo bush when she was fourteen to get circumcised and to learn how to be one of umpteen wives to some husband.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

Jacob Doboyu was Grebo and a dead ringer for Nelson Mandela.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009