Welcome to The Vice Guide to Liberia. We travel to West Africa to
rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of
civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of
Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by
filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child
soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves,
the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have
taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in
wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they
rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism
is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed.