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Monrovia Transformed, Part III: Science. Hubris. Malaria.

The following post is the third in our mini-series, taken from from graduate student Aaron Leaf’s microblog that documents his field research on Monrovia, Liberia’s post-conflict reconstruction efforts. Aaron was in Monrovia this January, and these posts reflect some of his […]

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Monrovia Transformed, Part II: Power. Networks.

The following post is the second in our mini-series, taken from from graduate student Aaron Leaf’s microblog that documents his field research on Monrovia, Liberia’s post-conflict reconstruction efforts. Aaron was in Monrovia this January, and these posts reflect some of his […]

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Monrovia Transformed, Part I: Heat Stroke and Motorbikes

Aaron Leaf is a graduate student at the New School working on a masters thesis about Monrovia, Liberia’s post-conflict reconstruction efforts. The project is to connect current attempts to mold the city with a history of Liberian urbanism, looking at Monrovia […]