{"id":193542,"date":"2025-03-14T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-several-students-abandon-classes-for-traditional-practice-gbarma-high-principal-asserts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:37:43","slug":"liberia-several-students-abandon-classes-for-traditional-practice-gbarma-high-principal-asserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-several-students-abandon-classes-for-traditional-practice-gbarma-high-principal-asserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Several Students Abandon Classes for Traditional Practice, Gbarma High Principal Asserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Gbarpolu County \u2014 The Principal of Gbarma Central High School, Mr. Blama Konneh, has revealed that several students of the institution recently abandoned classes to be initiated into the Sande and Poro Societies, a situation he said will greatly affect their academic progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"78\">The Poro Society is a traditional secret society (bush school) widely practiced in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, introduced by the Mande people. It is sometimes referred to as a hunting society, and only&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140280.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gbarpolu County \u2014 The Principal of Gbarma Central High School, Mr. Blama Konneh, has revealed that several students of the institution recently abandoned classes to be initiated into the Sande and Poro Societies, a situation he said will greatly affect their academic progress. The Poro Society is a traditional secret society (bush school) widely practiced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[9192,258,256,10669,13628,50861,6184,4712,1107,257,18016,12537,254,6695,9464],"class_list":["post-193542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abandon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asserts","tag-classes","tag-gbarma","tag-high","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-practice","tag-principal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students","tag-traditional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}