Kenneth Best
Kenneth Y. Best is an African journalist, a Liberian who founded The Daily Observer in Monrovia, Liberia and subsequently a paper of the same name in Banjul, The Gambia.
Best was the nephew of the Americo-Liberian journalist Albert Porte.[1]
In February 1981 Best founded the Daily Observer, one of the first daily newspapers in Liberia.[2] Under the Presidency of Samuel Doe, the Daily Observer was subject to sustained political harassment.[3]
The First Liberian Civil War caused Best to relocate with his family to the Gambia.[4] There he foiunded Gambia's first daily newspaper, again called The Daily Observer.[4] In October 1994, following Yahya Jammeh's military coup, Best was expelled from Gambia,[5] although the newspaper was allowed to continue and is still published today.[6]
Works
- Cultural policy in Liberia, 1974
- African Challenge, 1975
- 'My Fight for Press Freedom', New African, August 1991
References
- ^ Carl Patrick Burrowes, Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970, 2004, p.108
- ^ W. Joseph Campbell, The emergent independent press in Benin and Côte d'Ivoire, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, p.20
- ^ Paul Gifford, Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia, pp.26-28
- ^ a b Gabriel I. H. Williams, Liberia: the heart of darkness, Trafford Publishing, 2002, p.333
- ^ W. Joseph Campbell, The emergent independent press in Benin and Côte d'Ivoire, 1998, p.19
- ^ "Contact Us." The Daily Observer. Retrieved on 28 February 2009.
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