Bøker av K-Moses Nagbe

In many societies, the voice of youth is usually marginalized. Even as that voice grows louder, it is treated with either indifference or contempt. Yet, no society thrives in the full measure of progress, absent just one of many voices that must be at the table of national conversations. In this short work, Dr. Nagbe highlights the importance of the voice of youth in Liberia, focusing on student activism in especially the 1970s, running into the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s. He brings his training in Child Psychology, Early Childhood Education, and even Social Psychology and Social Work to the discussion. AMANDLA! remains insightful and a quick read.

LOOKING LANGUAGE IN THE EYE contributes to adventure with language activities. It is written with specifically the Liberian classroom in mind. It focuses on language and its embedded activities, including thinking, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Dukudu Goes to School explores what happens when a child, who is a little over a year, finds herself in a crowd headed for school. She bolts away from her parents. She wants to go home. Will she return to school? Transition, a concept in Early Childhood Education, becomes a problem. How will it end?

A Nation of Plenty Plenty People: The Liberian Story is a revisited history of the West African Republic that grew out of an amalgam of numerous cultural nations of Africa and Western-flavored Africans, who evolved from the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. Done in relatively simple language, the work is intended for audiences at all levels of literacy. In recent years, Dr. K-Moses Nagbe, the author, has become intensely interested in revisiting some of the historical themes--space, identity, communality, and legacy--that have continued to hold sway over the land and its peoples.

When young Neh Gateru returns from abroad with vast education, he dreams of settling in his home region in rural Liberia. He shortly meets Nannie Berry, an equally young woman, with whom he will have a future family. The joy of the encounter is short-lived because he soon rather innocently runs afoul of national government and is murdered. Now, what?

In Nuggets of the African Novel [With Notes on the Liberian Literary Heritage], Nagbe charts a critical course which seeks to consolidate a unit approach to African literature, reinforcing one continental mind and soul. He has summarized nearly thirty African novels in Nuggets. The summaries are rich. The comments are insightful. They contain very many topics that will possibly evoke or sustain interest in the novels themselves and interest in seeing literature as an irresistible shadow of history. Even so, on the pages the reader will understand that because all literature tells the human story, all literature speaks a universal language. The notes on the Liberian component of African literature are revealing. Only a few of Nagbe's compatriots can boast of the insight which he brings to the subject of the ironies and forces that have impacted the progress of imaginative writing in Liberia, a modern nation state established by repatriated African Americans.Even so, the three phases of national struggle which Nagbe constantly refers to in the 'Notes' as 'intra-national' struggle is poignant. Here lies an important testimony of the biting pain which the politics of long suffering can inflict on a nation. It is an implicit testimony of the attributes of the mental ailment which, with insidious and protracted attack, decimates a person or a group of people. In a larger sense, the Liberian story is the story of Africa and her scars from cultural misinformation and confusion, and what needs to be done in the new millennium.