By Robin Dopoe and Titus BabuThe Daily Observer, Liberia’s oldest surviving newspaper recently received a sizable collection of its old editions which were mostly missing from the paper’s Stanton P. Peabody Memorial Library located in the Liberian Observer Corporation’s headquarters near the ELWA Junction, Paynesville. Both men, who have a long time associations with Liberia, respectively, are visiting the country and brought back their Observer newspapers dating back from the paper’s early years of operation—1981 to 1990. The old but well preserved newspapers have arrived ahead of the launch of a project to digitize the entire newspaper archive for which the management of the Liberian Observer Corporation (LOC) is seeking funding. “The record-keeping of Liberian history is a significant value especially that the country lost the paper trail of its history during the war,” he said. The Daily Observer is more than a paper; it’s a cultural heritage to Liberia,” the German declared.

Source: Daily Observer March 03, 2020 02:26 UTC