The country fared relatively well while nearly all of its neighbors were engulfed by fighting until 1980, when Samuel Doe led a military coup in protest of rising prices.
It first became an independent republic in 1847 and subsequently was never established as a European colony. The country fared relatively well while nearly all of its neighbors were engulfed by fighting until 1980, when Samuel Doe led a military coup in protest of rising prices. His regime, however, would doom the nation's economy, paving the way for a brutally crushed putsch that led to violent civil war. FTP, name this African nation that may be on the rebound with the departure of Charles Taylor.
It first became an independent republic in 1847 and subsequently was never established as a European colony.
Liberia