An important purpose for writing one’s life story is to personalize history in the hope that such individual accounts will contribute to the building blocks for the history of a people. I have been blessed with three careers. The first started while I was still in graduate school at the beginning of the 1970s. There was a hiatus of six years before my teaching career resumed in 1981. Cumulatively, my teaching career lasted for 35 years and was comparatively the career of longest duration. The interim period of six years was my Liberian government service, during which I participated in, and acquired important insights into governance in Liberia. The third career was stumbled upon as it came following my retirement after more than three decades in academia. I was invited to participate in a number of governance reform-related projects during the administration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. This final chapter of my life will indeed climax with the publication of this memoir. It is my hope that readers will come to know me as they acquire some appreciation of my engagements and a glimpse into the Liberia of my generation.
In: A Liberian Life
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D. Elwood Dunn
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