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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

The documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell is receiving wonderful reviews in the United States. The movie reveals the ways in which brave groups of Liberian women mobilized to demand peace in their beleaguered nation. Liberia seems tentatively to be on the right path in no small part because of what these women did to draw the line and demand an end to the bloodshed that for so long characterized Liberia.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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