What A Historical Lie!!

If you refer to page 141 of Africa Must Unite, Nkrumah stated unambiguously:

“The first step towards African political union was taken on 23 November 1958, when Ghana and the Republic of Guinea united to form a nucleus for a Union of African States. We established a system of exchange of resident ministers, who were recognised as members of both the government of Ghana and the government of Guinea. The following year, in July 1959, the Presidents of Liberia and Guinea, and I, met at Sanniquellie to discuss the whole question of African emancipation and unity…”

I pray that it will not be long before Liberia realises the enormity of their faux pas.

I pray Liberia uses the occasion of their 26th July independence anniversary to correct this historical error before it becomes farcical.

I state this without prejudice. Liberia means a great deal to me — as do Sierra Leone, the Congo, and Haiti — because of their historical significance to the projection of the African Personality in world affairs. I therefore pledged some of my productive years to the service of Liberia during the civil war. With the enlightened support of Lord Eric Avebury and International Alert, I (between 1992 and 2003) first persuaded President Museveni to send Ugandan troops to Greater Liberia to mediate ECOMOG bombardment. Zambia contributed a contingent.+

I then brokered a rapprochement between General Sani Abacha, Head of State of Nigeria, and Mr. Charles Ghankay Taylor, leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), in 1995, which led to the conduct of free and fair democratic elections in Liberia in 1997.

In 2003, as a special adviser to the OAU Secretary‑General, H.E. Amara Essy, I was dispatched to persuade Mr. Taylor not to return to the “bush,” faced with incessant US‑orchestrated undermining and terrorism. For peace to prevail in traumatised Liberia, President Taylor had to voluntarily leave the presidential seat — and Taylor did, stabilising successive peaceful democratic elections to date.

On a personal note, I have been advocating since the 1970s for Liberians to change their national motto, The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here, to the all‑embracing The Love of Liberty Unites Us.

Addai‑Sebo 24 July 2026