Le Libéria, problèmes d'intégration

Abstract

The one hundred and fifty years or thereabouts of the history of the decolonized Liberia are filled with events which characterize a colonial situation. The country given by American philanthropists to liberated Black people became since its beginnings the field of bloody fights between rapatriated people and the inhabitants of the area. One may show some social dating from the outsets of Liberia. That consolidation of the American-Liberians was accompanied with alliances of autochtonous tribes against them. The heroic period of Liberia, with bloody insurrections and government repressions, went to an end, at the middle of our century, with the beginning of the negotiations opened by the Liberian government in order to convert those two social groups — American-Liberians and indigenous tribes — in only one social unity. Then we see an accomplishment of the intégration by the State. The State, as initiator and author of the strategy of a social change has an available stock of sanctions and resources to realize that change. The sociological analysis of the means for a policy of integration makes possible to see the specificity and the dimensions of a social intégration organized by a political system.