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M. Woryonwon Roberts
The year was 1992, and Monrovia was engulfed in a civil war. A typical day began with the sound of gunfire shattering the silence—the silence that people had hoped would bring peace. The day was filled with the movement of displaced people from one end of the city to another in search of food, and was rounded out by a curfew that began at 4:00 p.m. and lasted until 7:00 the next morning, when the routine began all over again.
It was in the midst of all of this strife that a few Liberians and friends of Liberia decided that they would provide some pastime for the long hours of the curfew, when people were forced to be in their houses behind closed doors. They decided to start a book chain, through which they would provide books to the people; after reading a book, each person would pass it along to another, thus continuing the chain. Many people in Monrovia were part of the WE-CARE Book Chain, and enjoyed its books and magazines during those long hours indoors.
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