WHERE CHARLES TAYLOR WENT WRONG

About the Book

‘WHERE CHARLES TAYLOR WENT WRONG’ lays bare the issues and events that culminated in the downfall of a man who remarkably transfi gured Liberia, Africa’s oldest independent republic. Charles Taylor’s missteps and failures in Liberia, as well his ill-advised role in Sierra Leone, a country with common border and heritage; his infl ammatory foreign policy toward not only the US and other Western powers, but to neighboring countries as well was the basis for his international isolation, the lack of donor support to his government and his eventual demise. Perhaps no other writing has brought to focus yet Charles Taylor’s slip-ups, as does this copy. Historians, students of history, policy makers, and political observers everywhere may find this work an attention in their analyses of war, peace and governance, particularly in Africa

About the Author

Max Willie is a native of Liberia. He is a journalist and a political observer, working across the fi eld from public and private radio and television stations to international nongovernmental organizations. Max’s journalism profession began in 1979 with ELBC/TV, Liberia’s public broadcast system. He started as a reporter and rose through the ranks to become the System’s Deputy Broadcast Director-General. He accomplished professional education from VOA (Voice of America) in Washington, DC. Max worked as Communication/Media Specialist for a strategic U.S. project, LCIP (Liberia Community Infrastructure Program), a USAID-run 48 million-dollar gift from the U.S. government to Liberia’s graduation from war. During and after the country’s great civil war, Max co-managed Charles Taylor’s communication network. As the war was intensifying, he slipped into other functions by moral conviction outside the boundary of his professional journalistic duties to offer service against the human catastrophe of such grave consequence the war was imposing. He proffered time and energy to help the needy and vulnerable; a service he counts as a score of lifetime. Max Willie resides in the United States currently where he’s prospecting for research and higher education. Max holds the Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from University of Liberia. He’s at maxartwill@yahoo.com or botobigimax3@gmail.com.