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SURVIVAL GUIDE
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ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation prices in Monrovia have been driven up by the presence of private com-
panies and NGOs. You can expect to pay top dollar in the capital, with a few exceptions.
Upcountry, both prices and standards are lower.
BOOKS
Journey Without Maps,
Graham Greene's tale of adventuring across Liberia in the 1930s, is
the Liberia classic. Less well-known but equally recommended is
Too Late to Turn Back,
written by Greene's cousin and travelling companion Barbara.
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's autobiography,
This Child Will be Great,
explores pre-
and postwar Liberia, including Johnson-Sirleaf's backing of Taylor's rebellion.
MOVIES
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
is a 2008 documentary that focuses on Nobel Prize-winner
Leymah Gbowee's efforts to bring the war to an end.
An Uncivil War
includes disturbing
images of the conflict and America's alleged failure to help.
Shot in the years following the war,
Sliding Liberia
is a short surf documentary that
beautifully captures post-conflict Liberia and a local surfer's effort to catch the waves,
rather than go under.
EMBASSIES & CONSULATES
Canadians and Australians should contact their high commissions in Abidjan (Côte
d'Ivoire) and Accra (Ghana), respectively.
0886-519 138; Warner Ave btwn 17th
& 18th Sts, Sinkor)
French Embassy
(
031-235 576; German Compound, Congo Town)
German Embassy
(
0886-438 365; Tubman Blvd, UNMIL Bldg, Congo Town)
077-016 920; cnr 15th St & Cheesman Ave,
Sinkor)
