Liberia: Agriculture Minister Jeanine Cooper Should Do Well--It Is in Her Blood

We think President George Weah made an inspired decision to appoint Madam Jeanine Cooper as Agriculture Minister.

Why? Because farming is in her blood. Why do we say that? Because long before she was born, and while her uncle John and his younger brother Julius Cooper were yet very young people, their father, and Jeanine's grandfather, Mr. John Louis Cooper, Sr., started a rubber farm on the Bong Mines Road in Lower Bong County--but that was long before Bong Mining Company was even established. The farm, like many along that road run by Monrovia's many "gentlemen farmers," became successful and that is how Mr. Cooper and his wife, Mrs. Eugenia Simpson Cooper, a professional educator, became independent middle class people, able to provide their children with a sound education.

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