Wailing from the Bleeding Nations
is a series of political memoirs about the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars fought amongst rivalry warlords in the 1990s and early 2000s. The book followed the frontline experience of a family's peculiar child, a typical representation of the African image, whose destiny is influenced by a series of local events, dreams, conflicts, lack of family support, and who is in a constant struggle for his survival against a deadly disease as he tried to pursue education instead of follow-suiting his friends to pick up arms and fight in the war as a child soldier while questioning everything around him.
The series scrutinised the role and reception of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebel under the leadership of Charles Taylor who breaks himself free from a USA prison to initiates a guerrilla warfare within the Liberian society, as compared to that of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel under the command of Foday Sankoh in neighbouring Sierra Leone. The books talked about the operation and impact of the Civil Defence Force (CDF-Kamajors) and other mercenary groups such as; the Executive Outcomes from South Africa, and Task Force from Liberia which operated alongside the Nigerian peacekeeping force, and other foreign fighters including the Guinean military.
also unveiled the myths and reality about the formation of child soldiers in a self-seeking senseless conflict, supported by foreign governments at the expense of the local people and the region's stability. "From the men who masterminded the conflicts from abroad, to the laymen who did the killing, everybody has a story to tell."
As the war looms in Ukraine and the West continues to slap Russia in the face with 1001 sanctions,
"Wailing from the Bleeding Nations: The Battlefields Where the Wars Aren't Planned"
recalled the similarities of what the Liberians and Sierra Leoneans went through in the 1990s. The book is your perfect answer to the notorious practice of proxy war and regime change, and the impact such practices have on society in terms of civilian death and the destructive legacy left behind which the next generation will be forced to deal with within the unforeseeable future, as local and foreign war profiteers fatten their pockets, leaving behind nothing but the bare skeleton of the society.