Now a special report from Johannesburg South Africa. In November, our reporter Fatu Kamara traveled to the city thirty years after the end of the apartheid regime that segregated the population by race and brutally oppressed the black majority.

South Africa’s first Black president Nelson Mandela famously championed reconciliation with former apartheid leaders even after they had imprisoned him for 27 years. Anti-apartheid leaders told Fatu that Mandela’s stand had helped the country had avoid civil war and build a stable democracy.
In this collaboration with Okay FM Fatu asks what Liberia can learn from South Africa’s approach to reconciliation.

This story is a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the “Investigating Liberia” project. Funding was provided by the U.S. and Swedish embassies in Liberia. The funders had no say in the story’s content