{"id":201366,"date":"2025-07-01T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-we-must-give-boakai-the-credit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:46:11","slug":"liberia-we-must-give-boakai-the-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-we-must-give-boakai-the-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: We Must Give Boakai the Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">President Boakai&#8217;s decision to personally preside over both Senator Prince Johnson&#8217;s funeral in Ganta and, months later, the reburial rites for President Samuel Kanyon Doe and First Lady Nancy Doe in Zwedru carries enormous symbolic weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">By honoring Prince Johnson&#8211;a former warlord whose actions exacerbated Liberia&#8217;s civil conflict&#8211;Boakai underscored a narrative of transformation: that even those who once fueled violence can seek redemption, support transitional justice (Johnson had backed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010541.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>President Boakai&#8217;s decision to personally preside over both Senator Prince Johnson&#8217;s funeral in Ganta and, months later, the reburial rites for President Samuel Kanyon Doe and First Lady Nancy Doe in Zwedru carries enormous symbolic weight. By honoring Prince Johnson&#8211;a former warlord whose actions exacerbated Liberia&#8217;s civil conflict&#8211;Boakai underscored a narrative of transformation: that even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201367,"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":[258,256,7324,9624,7712,4712,1107,257,254],"class_list":["post-201366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-credit","tag-give","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/201366","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=201366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}