“We dodged bullets during the war, now Ebola is going to kill us?” my aunt asked me in distress one evening in mid-July, as we sat commiserating at my house on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia’s capital.
Academic | Activist | Author
“We dodged bullets during the war, now Ebola is going to kill us?” my aunt asked me in distress one evening in mid-July, as we sat commiserating at my house on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia’s capital.
Robtel Neajai Pailey is an award-winning Liberian academic, activist and author.
As the #global #assault on #migrants intensifies, this deeply #personal #commentary I wrote in 2017 for Al Jazeera English about growing up #undocumented in the #UnitedStates is as relevant now as it was back then. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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