Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Producer/director Gini Reticker (A Decade Under the Influence, Class of 2006) turns her attentions to the topic of peaceful protest by exploring the efforts of Liberian Leymah Gbowee in ridding her government of corruption and paving the way for the election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf -- Africa's ...more

The Devil appears in many forms, and in the West African nation of Liberia, the Devil is Charles Taylor. Liberia’s roots began somewhat idealistically, a dream for freed American slaves who returned to 19th Century Africa. In 1847, Liberia became an independent nation, and over a century later, the country fell into complete civil and political collapse. The eruption of two civil wars in the 1980s and the 1996 “election” of warlord Charles Taylor as president (one of his campaign slogans: “He ...more