A BLACK REPUBLIC.
In West Africa, wedged in between the British Colony of Sierra Leone and the French Ivory Coast, is a country, Liberia, where the black man governs under conditions of civilisation.
A population of 15,000 negroes of Afro-American descent governs a country in which there are 1,500,000 natives of various tribes.
They have a President and officers of State, a constitution modelled on that of the United States, a lower house of 13 members, and a sen- | ate of nine, a navy, consisting of one gun-boat—previously the yacht of a European millionaire — and an army ' of militia.
It is a real country, recognised by the Powers, and possessing treaties with them.
It has a seaboard of 350 miles, and it is 30,000 square miles in extent—an undulating tropical country, with the enervating climate of West Africa.
It has diseases, the insects, the reptiles of other West African countries.
Its products, as the geography book calls them, Include coffee, palm kernels, palm oil, rubber (native and Brazilian), and it has considerable wealth of minerals.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14728, 5 August 1921, Page 7
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175A BLACK REPUBLIC. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14728, 5 August 1921, Page 7
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