Liberia Akulengeza: Dziko Lobwerera

Monrovia, Liberia - Komiti Yoyang'anira Zakachikwi za Bicentennial yakhazikitsa mwambo wokumbukira zaka 200 ku Liberia ngati dziko ndipo yalengeza mutu ndi slogan ya chochitika cha Bicentennial. Mwambowu ukukondwerera chaka chonse cha 2022 kuyambira Januware 7 mpaka Disembala 10, 2022, ndi mwambo wotsegulira womwe ukuchitika pa February 14, 2022.
Dziko la Liberia linakhazikitsidwa mu 1822 ndi anthu aufulu ochokera ku Africa ochokera ku United States of America.

Malinga ndi Komiti Yoyang’anira, mutuwu ndi wakuti “Liberia: Dziko Lobwereranso - Kukumbukira Zaka 200 za Ufulu ndi Utsogoleri wa Pan-African Leadership” pamene mutu wake ndi “The Lone Star Forever, Stronger Together.”

Komiti Yoyang’anira yati mutuwu ukuimira zochitika zitatu zofunika kwambiri za mbiri yakale zomwe dziko lino lidachita kuyambira pomwe lidakhazikitsidwa mu 1822 ndi anthu aufulu ochokera ku Africa komanso owasamalira awo ochokera ku United States.

Choyamba, mutuwu ukukondwerera Liberia, ku West Africa, monga dziko losankhidwa kukhala pothawirako ndi anthu aufulu a fuko la Africa omwe adapirira zaka zambiri zaukapolo ku United States, kuti akhazikike ngati dziko lawo. Motero, mothandizidwa ndi bungwe la American Colonization Society (ACS), anthu ambiri aufulu amitundu ina anasamuka ku United States n’kutsikira pachilumba cha Providence ku Liberia pa January 7, 1822, monga kwawo.

Kachiwiri, mutuwu ukufuna kukumbukira ufulu wa anthu akuda ndi dziko komanso kutsimikiza mtima kudzilamulira komwe kunayamba zaka 200 zapitazo pamene dziko la Liberia linakhazikitsidwa mu 1822. Mu nthawi yomwe anthu a ku Africa ankafuna ufulu ndi ufulu wodzilamulira, kukhazikitsidwa kwa dziko la Liberia. , “Black Republic,” yomwe inalandira ufulu wodzilamulira mu 1847, inali umboni woonekeratu wakuti anthu a mu Africa atha kudzilamulira.

Ndipo chachitatu, mutuwu ukuvomereza udindo wofunikira kwambiri wa utsogoleri wa Pan-Africanist womwe dziko la Liberia lidachita, pomenyera ufulu wa Africa kuti achotsedwe atsamunda ndi kudziyimira pawokha, kuphatikiza malingaliro ake osagwirizana ndi tsankho ku South Africa komwe kumadziwika kuti tsankho.

Liberia pambuyo pake idzalimbikitsa kukhazikitsidwa kwa migwirizano ya mayiko osiyanasiyana ku Africa ndi dziko lonse lapansi. Choyambirira, chinali udindo wake wa utsogoleri wa Pan-Africanist pokonzekera "Msonkhano wa Sanniquellie" wa 1959 wokhudza Liberia, Guinea, ndi Ghana zomwe zinachititsa kuti bungwe la African Union (OAU) likhazikitsidwe ku 1963.

Liberia inatenga utsogoleri wofanana wa Pan-Africanist pakupanga African Union (AU), wolowa m'malo mwa OAU. Komanso idalowa nawo kuyitanidwa ku Continent kuti pakhale mabungwe azachuma m'chigawo, monga Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ndi Mano River Union.

Ndipo zinali mu mzimu wofanana wa Pan-Africanism umene unasonkhezera dziko la Liberia kugwirizana ndi mayiko ena pochirikiza kupangidwa kwa mabungwe a mayiko, kuphatikizapo United Nations, World Bank, ndi International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Monga mtsogoleri wa Pan-Africanist, Liberia inakhala masomphenya komanso woyambitsa African Development Bank pamene banki inakhazikitsidwa m'zaka za m'ma 1960 kulimbikitsa mgwirizano wachuma ku Africa.

Tingakumbukire kuti ngakhale kuti ukapolo unakhalabe wovomerezeka ku United States mpaka 1865, zoyesayesa za ACS zokhazikitsanso anthu zinafika pachimake pa kukhazikitsidwa kwa dziko lamakono la Liberia ku West Africa kusamutsa amuna, akazi ndi ana akuda aulere kuchokera ku United States ndi zina. anthu amitundu yosiyanasiyana ochokera kumadera ena a dziko lapansi. Izi zidapangitsa kuti gulu loyamba la Akuda 86 aulere kuchokera kugombe la New York lichoke mu 1820.

Pofika kumapeto kwa zaka za m’ma 1800, pafupifupi Akuda omasuka okwana 17,000 ochokera ku United States ndi ku Caribbean anabwezeredwa ku Liberia. Anthu ena amitundu ina akanapitirizabe kuthaŵira ku Liberia, “dziko laufulu.”

Kuyambira pomwe adafika, amwenyewa adakhazikitsa ulamuliro wodzilamulira ku Liberia ndi Joseph Jenkins Roberts waku Virginia waku United States yemwe anali woyamba waku Africa America kusankhidwa kukhala Purezidenti wa dziko. Pambuyo pake, Afirika ena asanu ndi anayi obadwa ku America ochokera ku Maryland, South Carolina, Ohio ndi Kentucky adatumikira monga Purezidenti wa Liberia, African Republic yoyamba yakuda.

Likulu la dziko la Liberia limatchedwa Monrovia pambuyo pa James Monroe, Purezidenti wachisanu wa United States, wochirikiza mwamphamvu ACS ndi mbendera ya dzikolo ndi chithunzi chofanana ndi mbendera ya ku America kusonyeza ubale wamphamvu pakati pa mayiko awiriwa.

Pofuna kusunga ndi kusunga ubale wolimba ndi United States of America, okhazikikawa adatcha madera ndi mizinda yambiri ya Liberia pambuyo pa mayiko angapo aku America, makamaka Maryland ndi Mississippi ku Africa, pakati pa ena "kuti apitirize kusunga zikhalidwe ndi malo omwe adachokera ku United States.

Mawuwa akuwonetsa dziko la Liberia ngati dziko la Lone Star komanso dziko loyamba lodziyimira palokha lakuda ku Africa. Ngakhale kuti dziko la Liberia labweretsa mikangano posachedwapa, dziko la Liberia labwezeretsa mtendere ndi bata ndipo likukhalabe limodzi ngati dziko kudzera mu ulamuliro wademokalase. Dzikoli lachita zisankho zitatu zotsatizana za demokalase, zomwe zidapangitsa Mayi Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf kukhala mtsogoleri wachikazi woyamba kusankhidwa mwademokalase mdzikolo ndi Africa.

Mu 2017, dzikolo lidawona kusamutsidwa kwaulamuliro kwa demokalase kuchokera kwa purezidenti wosankhidwa mwa demokalase kupita kwa wina pomwe Purezidenti Sirleaf adasamutsira mphamvu kwa Purezidenti George Manneh Weah chifukwa cha zotsatira za chisankho chademokalase chaufulu, chilungamo komanso poyera. Kusamutsa mphamvu kumeneku kunali chinthu chofunikira kwambiri chomwe dzikolo silinakwaniritse zaka zopitilira 70.

Malinga ndi Komiti Yoyang'anira, mutu ndi slogan zakonzedwa kuti zithandizire zolinga za Bicentennial Chikumbutso, zomwe ndi kukondwerera chikhalidwe cha Liberia cholemera; kuwonetsa mwayi wokopa alendo ndi ndalama wa dziko; kugwirizanitsa ndikugwirizanitsanso anthu aku America aku America ku United States ndi akuda ena omwe ali m'mayiko ena kuti azidziwika bwino ku Liberia.

Cholinga chachikulu cha chikumbutso cha Bicentennial ndikulimbitsanso ubale wabwino pakati pa United States ndi Liberia kuyambira zaka za m'ma 1800 pomwe Liberia idakhazikitsidwa.

Pofuna kuwonetsetsa kuti chikondwerero cha Bicentennial Chikumbutso chikuyenda bwino, Wolemekezeka, Purezidenti Dr. George Manneh Weah wa Republic of Liberia, akupempha anthu onse a ku Liberia, mabungwe a m'deralo ndi mayiko akunja komanso anthu omwe ali kunja kwa diaspora kuti atenge nawo mbali pa mwambowu wokondwerera zaka 200. kukhazikitsidwa kwa dziko ndi anthu aufulu ochokera ku Africa ochokera ku United States ndi madera ena a dziko lapansi, kuphatikizapo Caribbean ndi Europe; ndi mulingo waufulu ndi utsogoleri wa Pan-Africa zomwe dzikolo lasangalala nalo pomwe likuwonetsa dzikolo ngati malo abwino okopa alendo ndi ndalama.

Makomiti ang'onoang'ono osiyanasiyana akuthandiza National Steering Committee of the Bicentennial chikumbutso kuwonetsetsa kuti pali njira imodzi yotsimikizira kuti mwambowu ukuyenda bwino. Purezidenti akuyitanitsa anthu onse a ku Liberia ndi abwenzi abwino a dziko lonse lapansi kuti agwire ntchito limodzi mogwirizana, mosasamala kanthu za chikhalidwe chawo ndi ndale, kuti awonetsetse kuti chochitikachi chidzapindula phindu lonse la dziko.