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Title: | An Indigenous Liberian's Quest for the Presidency: Momolu Massaquoi and the 1931 Election |
Author: | Smyke, Raymond J. |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Liberian Studies Journal |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 1-28 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Liberia |
Subjects: | elections 1931 biographies (form) Politics and Government History and Exploration |
About person: | Momolu Massaquoi (1870-1938) |
Abstract: | Momolu Massaquoi (1870-1938) was heir to two African royal families and reigned as the youngest-ever king of the Vai people (Liberia). Educated in the USA, he held key positions in the Liberian government, becoming Africa's first indigenous diplomat. Popular among ordinary Liberians and about to become the nation's first tribal African president in the early 1930s, he was betrayed by his boyhood friend, Edwin Barclay, another contender for the presidency. Massaquoi was barred from holding public office and the Massaquoi name was expunged from official Liberian history. This paper presents Massaquoi's biography, with a special focus on his run for the presidency. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |