History, according to Robert Penn Warren (a poet, novelist, and literary critic), cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a full understanding of ourselves and our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Professor J. Corfield also pointed out in her article that revisiting a country's history helps us to understand the linkages between her past and present. Understanding a nation's history is not just 'useful,' it is essential (royalholloway.ac.uk).
Understanding Liberia's history for example, will help us to re-build our socioeconomic and political institutions, and as may well be necessary also to change those behaviors that are not congruent to nation building. What we have become today in Liberia is the result of the seeds that were planted by Liberia's founding fathers, many, many years ago; founding fathers that failed to heed the advice and wisdom of a visionary personality.
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