Liberia 



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which must be the lingua franca of West Africa, must be used 

 by Liberia for intercourse with the world at large, as Japan 

 and China, Holland and Scandinavia, use it." For eighty years 



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have these American Negroes and their descendants inhabited 

 this part of West Africa. Several of them, quite exceptionally, 

 have studied the Grebo language on the eastern frontier of 



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