Liberia: Photojournalist Risked Life - Told Tales of Societal Ills in Fascinating Styles

opinion

Most African journalists particularly from Liberia who manage to escape war, political persecution, or poverty and resettle in the West never get to practice journalism again. Once they arrive, many tend to focus on work and raising families, and those who pursue further studies usually take on different careers other than journalism. But award-winning photo-journalist, human rights advocate and writer, Musue Noha Haddad was an exception.

After escaping her native Liberia under the rule of then dictator Charles MacArthur Taylor and resettled in the US for a decade before returning home two years ago, Journalist Musue Haddad vigorously continued to practice her career, always photographing and writing news articles for numerous news outlets while at the same time maintaining a column with FrontPage Africa titled: Random Thoughts in which she tackled matters surrounding societal ills-from corruption, women-men's infidelity, to gender equality and teenage pregnancy in Liberia. Amid it all, this gifted storyteller also ran a blog, An Eye On Society (http://musue-haddad.blogspot.com/)that consisted of religious and poem columns.

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