Bob Miller & Andrew Hida TheOtherGreatestChallenge

Edward Embiasu & Benjamin Godopiaso

John Fred Yon Jr. & Prince N Shereef

Joseph Acheampong & David Acheampong

Together Liberia is a vehicle for media development. http://togetherliberia.org

Joseph Acheampong & Georgina Acheampong On Marriage – Together Liberia

Joseph Acheampong & Georgina Bedu Faith

Rabbie Nass and Takun-J explain the origins of hip-co, discuss the difficulties the Liberian music community has faced, and talk about their own sources of musical inspiration.

Rabbie Nass and Takun-J: Music in Liberia Part 1 - Together Liberia Soundbooth

Rabbie Nass and Takun-J discuss the war, the progress and future of music in Liberia, send a message to their fans, and throw down some hip-co rhymes.

Rabbie Nass and Takun-J: Music in Liberia Part 2 - Together Liberia Soundbooth

Artistic blacksmith Manfred Zbrzezny and woodcarver Anthony Sartuh discuss how they met, Liberian art appreciation, the message behind art, and the tension between succeeding commercially and doing what you love.

Manfred Zbrzezny and Anthony Sartuh: Art in Liberia Part 1 - Together Liberia Soundbooth

Artistic blacksmith Manfred Zbrzezny and woodcarver Anthony Sartuh discuss what it means to be an 'artist', how to promote art in Liberia, artists' responsibility to society, their favorite artistic pieces, and the sacrifices artists must make.

Manfred Zbrzezny and Anthony Sartuh: Art in Liberia Part 2 - Together Liberia Soundbooth

SI Newhouse School of Public Communications Assistant Professor, Ken Harper spent the summer as director for the media development project, Together Liberia, http://togetherliberia.org. The purpose of the project was to empower local communicators to share their own stories and develop institutional relationships with the Liberian media.

Together Liberia was comprised of professors and students from 5 US universities including Newhouse, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Oregon and University of Massachusetts Boston. Together they created teams to train Liberian students and professionals in photography, media ethics, multimedia and web design. 

Over the course of nearly three months participants produced over 20 stories that were published in local media, one of which was published on the website Al Jazeera English. Additionally, five websites, two documentaries and one music video were produced. 

Concurrently, Together Liberia's gear drive raised $20,000 in new and used communication equipment that was donated to http://ilabliberia.org, a local NGO, for distribution to local visual storytellers.

Together Liberia

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