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Liberia

Momo Kanneh
Momo Kanneh is an experienced Liberian journalist. He has worked in the broadcast and print media as well as in public relations. He published and edited the Heritage, a Liberian newspaper devoted to social justice, democracy and good governance. He also served as director for Information and Civic Education of the Independent Elections Commission that conducted the 1997 special elections in post-war Liberia and, recently, worked as information consultant for the Ghana-based West Africa Network for Peace building. He is a stringer for the CBC Radio One program, Sounds Like Canada. Kanneh lives in Charlottetown, where he is an occasional contributor to the Charlottetown Guardian and a graduate student at the University of Prince Edward Island.

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I owe PEN Canada for whatever it is we call a home…. I was deeply traumatized when I crossed mountains to flee my invaded home. When I got here, the immigration office labelled me as ‘general labour’. I am nothing less than ‘highly-skilled labour’ - in the field of poetry.” Poet and PEN Canada writer in exile Saghi Ghahraman