Media & Journalism
Landmark
Albert Porte
1906 – 1986
The pamphleteer who would not stop, and the first Liberian journalist Tubman jailed
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Why they are here
He wrote pamphlets criticising one Liberian government after another for fifty years. Tubman jailed him in 1946 — the first Liberian journalist imprisoned by a president — and he carried on regardless.
Albert Porte was an Americo-Liberian journalist, teacher and political pamphleteer, and editor of the Crozerville Observer.
In 1946 he became the first Liberian journalist to be imprisoned by President William Tubman, and he went on criticising successive administrations for decades afterwards, publishing at his own expense when no one would print him. The beginnings of organised civil society in Liberia are generally traced to his activity. He died in 1986.
In 1946 he became the first Liberian journalist to be imprisoned by President William Tubman, and he went on criticising successive administrations for decades afterwards, publishing at his own expense when no one would print him. The beginnings of organised civil society in Liberia are generally traced to his activity. He died in 1986.
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