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August 31, 2018

The Newsmakers: Does Aid Harm or Help? (TRT World)

August 31, 2018/ Robtel Neajai Pailey

Monrovia, Liberia—Aid is strategic, not altruistic: Robtel Neajai Pailey’s hardline stance during an interview with Turkish television on 31 August 2018.

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Robtel Neajai Pailey

Robtel Neajai Pailey is an award-winning Liberian academic, activist and author. 

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Liberia's Electoral Exceptionalism as Democratic Consolidation and How West Africa Compares (Critical African Studies)
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Liberia's Electoral Exceptionalism as Democratic Consolidation and How West Africa Compares (Critical African Studies)
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July 9, 2026
Founded as a Refuge from US Racism, Liberia Must Not Help Enforce It Now (Al Jazeera English)
November 7, 2025
Founded as a Refuge from US Racism, Liberia Must Not Help Enforce It Now (Al Jazeera English)
November 7, 2025
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November 7, 2025
Stopping Firestone and Starting a Citizen ‘Revolution from Below’ (Third World Quarterly)
January 2, 2024
Stopping Firestone and Starting a Citizen ‘Revolution from Below’ (Third World Quarterly)
January 2, 2024
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January 2, 2024
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BlueSky

As a 23-year-old, DC-based #journalist, I asked #Liberia’s Prez #Sirleaf publicly in March '06 how she planned to safeguard the country from exploitative #foreign #multinationals. Watch my intervention from 29:11-29:43 in this live #C-SPAN broadcast held at the #USIP: www.c-span.org/program/publ...

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— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) 7:25 · Sep 9, 2026

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