Liberia: Innovation From the Fringe – Why Liberia Must Rethink Where Progress Comes From

Monrovia — As a teacher in Liberia, I spent my days in classrooms that are often short on resources but rich in questions. People often ask why things are the way they are, why problems seem permanent, and why solutions always appear to come from faraway places with big laboratories, complicated machines, and long academic titles.

Over time, I have come to realize that one of the most damaging myths we carry is the belief that innovation must be complex, foreign or elite to be valuable.

Some of…