http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm African music treasures is a Voice of America blog that allows you to discover rare African recordings from the VOA's unique African music library. Many of the recordings featured on the blog are unreleased recordings of traditional and contemporary music that were originally recorded for the VOA program MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA. en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:24:22 -0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:28:00 -0000 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mlavoie@voanews.com mlavoie@voanews.com http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=7C2E9FAE-9488-504A-70DEF636D753BA96 The 1960s were a time of optimism, relative prosperity, and rapid growth in Monrovia, the ocean-side capital of Liberia. For almost one hundred and fifty years the city had been the economic, political, and social hub of the 'Americo-Liberian' community, who had governed the country since July 26, 1847, when the independence of the Republic of Liberia was officially declared. ('Americo-Liberians' are the descendants of the freed African-Americans who crossed the Atlantic, in the 1800s, and settl... Liberia Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:28:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=7C2E9FAE-9488-504A-70DEF636D753BA96