Didwho Welleh Twe

[1] From 1847 to 1980, the country was ruled by descendants of free people of color and former slaves from the United States known as Americo-Liberians.

[2] Didwho Welleh Twe was born in Monrovia, Liberia on April 14, 1879, to Kru parents.

Congressman William W. Grout of Vermont, Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama, and American writer, Samuel Langhorne Clement, (Mark Twain), assisted in his education.

[8] Upon returning to Liberia, Twe assisted Robert Farmer, an American engineer, in the construction of a coastal telephone system.

Two years later in 1912, President Daniel E. Howard appointed him district commissioner involved in boundary dispute matters with French Guinea and British Sierra Leone.

However, the legislature expelled him, according to reports, for advocacy for native rights, particularly the Fernando Po crisis.

In the 1920s, native Liberians were recruited and sent to Fernando Po, a Spanish colony in Equatorial Guinea as plantation workers.

The insurance policy payment of dead workers was reportedly not paid to their families but was shared by King and Yancy.

[11][12][13] The League of Nations found Liberia guilty and fined the government for the mistreatment of its native citizens.

Twe's "life was in danger"; in November 1932, he fled to the neighboring country, Sierra Leone.

RP was established in 1949 by Richard Holder, a former official of the Edwin Barclay Administration, and contained some previous members of the True Whip Party.

The government viewed the complaint as inviting the interference of foreign entities into Liberian domestic affairs and sought the arrest of the party's leadership.

The task was therefore a very uncomfortable one to perform, for I have always felt that the continual celebration of the destruction of men of the Bassa Tribe by Matilda Newport is a short-sighted policy to sustain.

The military junta that seized power in 1980 officially stopped Matilda Newport Day as a national holiday.

[25][27] Some analysts cited Twe's financial independence, international connections, commitment to his principle and the cause were factors that enabled him to withstand the government's temptation and pressure.

A review of his political history reveals that from the time of his expulsion from the legislature, he did not seek nor accept government employment, including the appointment of Secretary of Interior by President Edwin Barclay.

[28] (Independence Day Address, July 26, 1951, by Honorable Oscar S. Norman, Provincial Commissioner, Liberian Hinterland, Liberianobserver.com, The National Trends of Liberia's Unifying Process) Also, others did not view Twe positively.

For instance, during the election, in response to Twe's party nomination acceptance speech and other pronouncements, Tubman called him a tribalist, a divisive figure, an inherent traitor, "a senile visionary, sophisticated bigot, and an uncompromising egotist".

Didwho Welleh Twe married Arminta Dent, the first ex-wife of President Tubman.