Liberia Herald
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The Liberia Herald, founded in 1826 is the first newspaper ever published in Liberia which at the time was a colony. It was founded by Charles Force, an American freed slave who died shortly after.
From 1830 to 1834, its chief editor was a Jamaican-born mulatto educated in Canada, John Brown Russwurm. He resigned in early 1835 and along with Samuel Cornish went on to co-found the Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States [1].
The Liberian National Museum in Monrovia is in possession of some of the earliest editorials of The Herald[2].
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- BBC "Story of Africa" -an insight into the earliest African newspapers.
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