Civil Society Council Chairperson Rallies Support for Liberia’s Bicentennial Celebration
Monrovia – The Chairperson of the National Civil Society Council of Liberia (NCSCL), Loretta Pope Kai has called on all CSOs in Liberia to join the Bicentennial celebration which kicks of this Friday, January 7. In reference to Liberia’s formation by the American Colonization Society (ACS) 200 years ago, Mrs. Pope-Kai said: “Civil Society gave birth to Liberia! She is the foundation around which, however controversial, Liberia would have her free black fore fathers shipped to the shores of the newly found land of the free on the shores of West Africa. ACS as a civil society group in the US made that history possible.”