This book interrogates the enduring legacies of Liberia’s settler colonial foundations and their influence on post-war identity, citizenship, and belonging. Beginning with a personal encounter with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, it traces a deeper intellectual journey into how “Liberianness” is imagined, contested, and politically deployed by different stakeholders. Using settler colonial theory as a lens, each chapter explores how historical inequalities persist in contemporary debates around dual citizenship and national identity, highlighting the layered, often circular nature of these struggles. This concluding chapter tease out the core arguments developed in each part of the book and emphasise the logic behind them, as well as their broader contribution to knowledge. Rather than offering prescriptive answers, the book provides a diagnostic analysis, one that opens space for future research on colonial memory, responsibility, and repair in “post”-settler yet still unequal societies.

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Concluding Thoughts and Reflections

  • Franka Vaughan

摘要

This book interrogates the enduring legacies of Liberia’s settler colonial foundations and their influence on post-war identity, citizenship, and belonging. Beginning with a personal encounter with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, it traces a deeper intellectual journey into how “Liberianness” is imagined, contested, and politically deployed by different stakeholders. Using settler colonial theory as a lens, each chapter explores how historical inequalities persist in contemporary debates around dual citizenship and national identity, highlighting the layered, often circular nature of these struggles. This concluding chapter tease out the core arguments developed in each part of the book and emphasise the logic behind them, as well as their broader contribution to knowledge. Rather than offering prescriptive answers, the book provides a diagnostic analysis, one that opens space for future research on colonial memory, responsibility, and repair in “post”-settler yet still unequal societies.