William Tubman , of her complete name William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman (November 25th 1895 with To grip in Liberia - July 23rd 1971 with London), was a bast Politician , which was president of the bast Republic of 1944 until its death in 1971.

The rise with the capacity

Youth and beginning in policy

Wire of Pasteur Méthodiste Afro-American in the beginnings géorgiennes, William Tubman becomes lawyer in 1917, after having made studies of right However, this situation is of short duration since in 1934, it finds its armchair which it preserves until his new resignation in 1937. Finally, Tubman carries it and is elected, without opponent, chair the May 4th 1943, at the age of forty-eight years; it, however, is not invested that the January 3rd 1944.

Although already combined to the the United States which use Liberia like military base, the new president enters officially in war against the Germany and the Japan, the January 27th 1944.

Concerning the foreign policy, Tubman, while being aligned on the the United States, take part in the conference of the non-aligned countries of Bandung in 1955, and in the First Conference of the independent African States, organized by Nkrumah with Accra in 1958. In 1959, it is even with him that returns the privilege to organize the Second Conference of the African States.

In 1961, following a Panafrican conference organized in its capital, Tubman plays a diplomatic part of first order by forming the “Groupe of Monrovia” gathering the African leaders “moderate” wishing a progressive unification of Africa, unlike the “revolutionists” of the “Groupe of Casablanca”.

The father of modern Liberia

The modernisator of Liberia

At the time of its accession to the supreme office, the infrastructures, in the country, are quasi-non-existent. Tubman explains this situation by the fact that Liberia never profited from the “benefits of colonization”. To cure this problem, it decides to set up an economic policy which it names “open door” (“open door”). Tubman also decides to build several kilometers thousands of roads as well as a railway line connecting the iron mines to the coast, it grants the right to vote with Bast the autochtones having a landed property or paying the tax of the huts, prohibiting a president from attaching a third mandate, leader of the party of the Reform repression on the opposition is terrible

Progressively of time, this worship even takes, a mystical coloring. Indeed, propaganda répend in the population that Tubman, protected by God, can neither be poisoned, nor to be reached by some balls that it either.


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