Liberia Herald

Liberia Herald

The "Liberia Herald", founded in 1826 is the first newspaper ever published in Liberia which at the time was a colony. It was founded by Charles Force, an American freed slave who died shortly after.From 1830 to 1834, its chief editor was a Jamaican-born mulatto educated in Canada, John Brown Russwurm. He resigned in early 1835 and along with Samuel Cornish went on to co-found the Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States [ [http://www.inmotionaame.org/glossary/glossary_term.cfm?id=148&bhcp=1 www.inmotionaame.org] , Retrieved on May 4 2008] .

The Liberian National Museum in Monrovia is in possession of some of the earliest editorials of "The Herald" [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4556849.stm BBC News] 18 May, 2005, Retrieved on May 4 2008] .

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/13chapter7.shtml BBC "Story of Africa"] -an insight into the earliest African newspapers.


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