Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi (1905–1962) was a Liberian educator and politician from the Vai community.
He studied at the College of West Africa before his father was assigned as consul general to Germany for 1922–1930.
[1] Massaquoi studied law, and also worked as an English and mathematics teacher in Sierra Leone.
[1] In 1940, he and a number of other Liberian leaders[examples needed] were arrested for allegedly plotting the assassination of President Edwin J. Barclay and the overthrow of the government.
[2][3] Massaquoi was released in 1944, along with other political prisoners, following the inauguration of President William Tubman, who decried Barclay's "illegal arrest of peaceful citizens without warrant".