Always At War With Life. My World, My Story

Always at War With Life is a life story of a young boy that grew up between villages in Liberia, but found himself in the United States in early 1980s. The book, conversely, depicts the life of an ordinary village boy that grew up in Liberia from its inception to present. It briefly traces the Kwa people from the Niger basin, and teaches a fraction of the We (Krahn-Guéré) cultural games that are on the verge of extinction. The book points to the root causes of the divide between the natives and the freed slaves (settlers). It also reveals how Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf used her ancestral lineage with Charles Taylor and Blaise Compaoré to persuade Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Félix Houphouet- Boigny of the Ivory Coast to destroy Liberia during President Doe’s administration. The author explains his role as peace builder who helped to return genuine and sustainable peace to his country of birth. He explains why and how he spent weeks in prison in Liberia. The book concludes with author’s long battle with the hepatitis-B, and how he was saved by the bell with liver transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.