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“Invoking Martin Luther King, Jr, Cornel West once said that an activist is someone who is ‘maladjusted to injustice’. We should all be activists; I certainly am.”
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“I wrote Gbagba and Jaadeh! with the intention of starting a bloodless, ethical ‘revolution from below’, using children as my allies.”
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Yesterday, I presented preliminary findings from my new book project "Africa's 'Negro' Republics" to the Plenary of Liberia's House of Representatives. The Daily Observer captured my arguments brilliantly: www.liberianobserver.com/news/dr-pail... Thanx to Chief Clerk Mildred Sayon for facilitating!
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) 11:07 · Jul 8, 2026
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