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Tagged: Liberia

Politics & Government
9:00 am
Mon January 31, 2011

NCCU Prof Runs for Liberian Presidency

Credit Leoneda Inge
James Guseh with NCCU students Desiree Lewis, Timeika White and Kaia Clarke
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  • North Carolina Central University Professor James Guseh has returned home to Liberia - and he's running for president.

Presidential politics in Africa and in the African Diaspora has flooded the news in the New Year. There is the stand-off in the Ivory Coast where nations around the world continue to beg a losing presidential candidate to cede power to the winner. And just recently – a former dictator of Haiti returned home – raising questions of his intentions as the country tries to rebuild. A professor at North Carolina Central University says he can’t change the world – but he can help change his home country of Liberia.  So he’s running for president.  

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