The majority of the Liberian people live an indigenous life. Here are a few pictures to illustrate their living condation. There is no foreign know-how involved.
Nothing is borrowed from abroad.
On the side of the weaver is the completed cloth, which measures about four to five inches wide, and about 50 feet long. By western standards, this institution is equivalent to an academic and a military institution combined. Children do not only learn the basics that they need to survive in life, but the values of the society are drilled into them. Total respect for the elders and loyalty to the values and mores of the society are drilled into them like the exercises experienced in military-boot camp. The boys are totally isolated from their mothers for periods ranging from one to four years.