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Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey Share The first thing I would like to do in this brief statement on the 40-year History of Liberia’s Daily ObserverNewspaper is to give thanks to Almighty God for giving Mae Gene and me, in January 1977, as we were coming to the close of our careers in Nairobi, Kenya, the idea of returning home to start Liberia’s first independent daily newspaper. I remember vividly when we first started dating in 1970 that we conceived the idea of pu...

Share MONROVIA – The Publisher of Liberia’s first independent newspaper, Mr. Kenneth Y. Best, has recounted the “costly pains and challenges” him and several of his staffs suffered and encountered for establishing a news organ and reporting critical and balance stories in keeping with their reportorial duties in the country. The Daily Observer newspaper was established in January 1981 during the brutal and cruel regime of military dictator Samuel K. Doe. Mr. Best recalled that the beginning of the paper second month in existence, the “erratic, powerful and tyrannical Justice Ministe...