Today Africa Has Lost one of its Greatest Moral Leaders: Nelson Mandela, the Former President and Father of South Africa has died at Aged 95!

 RIP  Pa Mandela, we lost the world greatest Champion of all! A true Leader n Freedom Fighter who will never be forgotten.

Who's Traveling to Liberia this Year for the Holidays or Plan on Traveling Someday? You have come to the right Blog Spot.

About Mama Liberia:
 Mama Liberia is located on the West Coast of Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cote D‟Ivoire and the Alantic Ocean. Liberia is enriched with iron ore, timber, rubber, diamonds, gold, and has enormous potential for hydropower. Liberia is home to as many as 5 million people of Liberian descent. Within its borders, there are reportedly 28 tribes, including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo and Mende, and 18 local languages –with English as the official language. Liberia has no state religion, but is a very religious society/ Christianity abounds. 

                                                                    Monrovia!

Is by far Liberia‟s largest city, accounting for nearly a quarter of its population. The city is Liberia‟s chief port and its most important business and financial center. Despite Liberia reputation/ violent Civil War. Today Liberia is now a stable country. Don't take my word for it oh, go and visit. lol  

Things to keep in Mind before you Travel: 

Valid Passport to get Visa (Fees Required), Vaccinations, Medical/ Health Insurance, Family or Friends, Travel with good amount of Cash,  at least 5,000. Liberia uses both Liberian (LRD) and the US Dollar (USD)
Currency: 1USD= 80.9799(LRD)
Exchange Services: Both in banks or on the street.
Banks:

EcoBank - Ashmun & Randall Street, 5th Street, Sinkor, Waterside

International Bank (Liberia Limited IB) - 64 Broad St , Monrovia Or 1st Street, Sinkor, Monorovia 

(Limited services keep in mind)

Best Time to Travel :

Liberia has a (Wet) rainy season and a (Sunny) dry one. Rainy season lasts from May to October and the dry season is from  November to April. I found out that the best time to visit Liberia is during the dry season Between November - April or in the months of July and August when there is usually a brief period of weather similar to that of the dry season. 

Airlines: 
Delta Air Lines
Brussels Airlines
Air France
Arik Wings of Nigeria

Communication: 
Limited Internet/ Phone Services

Electricity:
It is not available, except in some parts of Monrovia. Most establishments use generators.


Where to Stay and Eat:


                                                    Bella Casa Hotel and Suites 

Family Oriented, Affordable and Acceptable!

3rd Street Sinkor, Monrovia Liberia!

Check In Desk!

Basic Room, Guest Room, Deluxe Room, Luxurious Suite Starts at $85/$90 USD and Up, Restaurant & Lounge, Pool Room, Flat Screen TV/ Free Internet/ Wifi, Swimming Pool/Hot Tub, Free Continental Breakfast and Buffet/$8/10 USD for a dish! all Dishes served with water or soft drinks and many more.

Siatta Styles is Opened at Bella Casa Hotels on the Top Floor of Event Hall!

Event Hall/Center!

Other Acceptable Places:
Cape Hotel - Price $160 and Up Per Night
Krystal OceanView Hotel $ 160/180 and Up Per Night
Royal Grand Hotel - Price $200 and Up Per Night
RLJ Kendeja  Resort and Villas - Price $215 and Up Per Night


Getting Around:
I found out that taxis or Rental car are the best way to get around  town(  Rent for a day)

Food & Drink: 
Dry Rice, Fufu  Dumboy, GB and Soup, Palm Butter, Palava Sauce, Casava Leaf, Split Peas, Chicken/Fish Gravy with cassava, eddoes, and plantains, Fried Potato Greens, Bitterleaf, Check Rice, Collard Greens
Liberian Coffee, Palm Wine, Club Beer and  Cane Juice ( Check out Cane N Abel cocktail if you need some Cane juice)


                Restaurants you may also want to check out:

Evelyn's  Restaurant/Bar and Grill
Musu Bar/Restaurant
Ro- Zi's N'yla Cafe
Sajj House
P.A.'s Grille
Ministry of Fruit
Great Wall
Shark's Ice Cream


                                               Activities:

Waterside Market
Sport Stadium
Chimpanzee Island/Monkey Island
Palm Spring Resort Casino


                                             Best  Sandy Beaches:

Myrtle Beach
Barnes Beach
Cici Beach
Ceasar's Beach
Waikiki Beach
Libassa Ecolodge

                                              Nightlife: 

                                 
Sky Bar
De ja vu -
La Noche Bar
Red Lion
Club 69
Terminal One

Don't Forget to GIVE BACK N Enjoy

NEWS: 'Dual Sims': Liberian Married Gay Men Blamed for Broken Love, Marriages in Liberia...

Women in Liberia are being frightened with the rise of gay Community

Reports by Mae Azango for the FrontPageAfrica (Monrovia) says:

Some Unmarried women say gay men in the country are responsible for broken love affairs accusing these gays of enticing young men with money to abandon their female lovers. 

Some of the women who were interviewed complain that majority of the men who are decent and have jobs and potential husbands are turning away from them and engaging in homosexual activities with their fellow men.

 "Who says we do not want to get marry and settle down like decent young women, but how can we be, when the men are taking our boyfriends as lovers," says Monica Cooper, a resident of Carey Street in Monrovia.

Women lament that gays who are bisexuals, would take their boyfriends in the name of love, and lavish 

money on them, usually results in the boys abandoning their girlfriends. On the busy streets of Monrovia at night, phone snatchers and thieves are seen roaming to steal, while call girls or prostitutes are in search of clients for the night.

In separate interviews with some of the call girls who asked to be paid for their time before being interviewed and their full names not revealed, the girls described the situation of men abandoning them for the love of money. "These gays who we call Dual Sims, are causing problems for us today because many of them are married in order to blind fool the Liberian people in covering up their dirty little secrets, while they are stealing our men from us,' says 28 year Rose, AKA Sweet Babe.

Rose laments: "I am not supposed to be living this kind of life but I had a guy who we stayed together for three years, but when we were catching hard time, one big gay man in this town, who people can call Big Daddy slept with my man and give him plenty money and bought him one SUV, so I was too local for him".

Sweet Babe had not completed her story when Theresa, AKA Heart Desire, interrupted, saying "What about me, my man traveled to Europe with one big minister in this town here and right after he came back, and I asked him, he slapped me and walked out? We already got man shortage here in Liberia since the war ended, but this gay them can't leave the remaining men for us. They will have their wives, then the small, small girls and after, they will have the young boys too, so what will they leave for us now?."

What's Men Take?

Some men have also accused CEO's companies and business, Bank Executives of attempting to sleep with them in order to get hired by those entities.

"I went to seek employment from a local cell phone company that I won't call the name, and the big man asked that I sleep with him in order to get the job as Marketing Manager", says a 26 year man claiming to be a recent graduate of the African Methodist Episcopal University who beg not to be named as according to him he does not have money to fight a big cell phone company.

Many of the young people who spoke with FPA say married gay men are called Dual Sim because they sleep with both men and women, while the original gays are called one Sim.

According to FPA: in 2011, FPA unearthed a story of young gays who admitted to being in relations with the same sex and needed freedom. Four youths told FPA behind closed doors that they wanted to live a normal life as normal partners do

It can also be recalled that Archie Ponpon, a Gay activist was beaten twice by angry mob, his mother house was burnt in the struggle for gay rights. He now serves as a court clerk of the Civil Law Court at the Temple of Justice.

Gays Get Green Light!

Mr Ponpon  recently received a license from the government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to operate a fully fledge local non-government organization (NGO) to protect human rights including that of gays..

"I am glad that the government has sees reason to recognize us because the rights of all need to be respected this is why we have considered to establish this NGO" Archie stated.

According to Ponpon, Liberians should not be discouraged about the involvement of gay rights in his advocacy as according to him, he believes in the protection of human rights and called on those who have similar ideology to come forward to support the NGO.

Respect Incorporated which according to its organizer was established in the swamp community of West Point is expected to open its offices early 2014.

World AIDS Day: December 1st 2013!

Hello Liberians and Friends!

Happy New Month Everyone!

Today is not only a new month but it is also World AIDS Day. So I decided to create this blog post to mark World AIDS Day.

Well,World AIDS Day is held on December 1st every year, to honor HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Victims in Liberia/World Wide. This day is dedicated to raising awareness about HIV and AIDS pandemic. It provides a platform to reflect on achievements made in response to HIV and AIDS.

In Liberia: Statistics have shown that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007, and an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV as of 2007.

Thanks For Stoping By: Know Your Status and be Safe!

Celebrities You May Have Not Known Were Liberians!

(1)

Was Born in Ghana to a Lebanese Father and  a Half Liberian/Ghanian Mother. She is Currently living in Ghana

(2)

Van Vicker:
A Ghanaian Actor who was also born to a Liberian/Ghanian Mother and A Dutch Father. He is Currently Living in Ghana

(3)

Kat Graham:
Was born in Switzerland and raised in Los Angeles, California. To a Jewish Mother and Americo-Liberia Father

(4)

Frank Artus:
A  Famous Liberian Actor currently living in Ghana

             

                                                                            (5) 

Johnson:

A Liberian who Appeared on Season 12 of American Idol. She is  Currently living in Tulsa, Oklahoma

                                         (6)

Oprah Winfrey:
Was born in Mississippi to a African American Mother and Father but a Genetic test in 2006 determined that her Matrilineal line originated among the Kpelle Ethnic Group, in the area that Today is Liberia

                                         (7)                                                

Was Born in Liberia, and lives in the Washington, D.C. Area. She is the Author of "The House at Sugar Beach"

Thanksgiving with LiberianHoneySvee aka Seaneh Vee!

Hello Liberians and friends,

Happy Chicken Day (Thanksgiving Day)  to all my Liberian people and Friends. This year for the Thanksgiving holiday I decided to cook lil Thanksgiving dinner at my house for me and my boys. Yay! It was not easy, check it out below, you know how we Liberians do it. For breakfast we ate casava n gravy and for lunch/dinner the rest. Have a safe and warm Thanksgiving yall!

Green and Red Jamaican Pepper Chicken!

Jollof Rice with Shrimps/Mix Veggies, Fried Chicken, Rice Bread and  Green n Red Jamaican Pepper Chicken!

Black and White Blay Trend @ the 2013 AMA'S Red Carpet!

Hello Oh Liberians and Friends,

Can't wait until Chicken Day (Thanksgiving) to celebrate with mi loves. Anyhoo, lately I ve been thinking about the Liberian Entertainment Awards (2014 LEA's) since  the American Music Awards (2013 AMA's ) Aired on Sunday. So I decided to make a post about the latest Blay Trend @ the 2013 AMA's to inspired my people. We'll, Black & White seems to be the hottest trend this year at the 2013 American Music Awards (AMA's) Red Carpet. Not dey say it, but I say it. Check out some of the Black and White Dresses/ or suit some of our favorite American musicians wore at the
 ( 2013 AMA's).

Would you Rock this Hair style? 

FYI: Ladies whatever your do please do not rock this hair style at the  2014 LEA's. This style is not for everyone. Thank You! 

Just in case you guys are wondering about Riri Do! African Americans calls it a Doobie Wrap

Who Rocked it Best!

Comment Below!

Thanks For Stoping By.. Have a lovely night!