Marriage of Musical & Cultural Destinies

<p>A biography of two success stories of ex-Liberian refugees: Samuel Siafa Taylor & Emmanuel Blessed Lavelah the most famous marriage of musical & cultural destinies.</p><p><br></p><p>From the origins and development of these two individuals' energy they have been extremely objective in engaging a positive and creative lifestyle regarding their difficulties as refugees but they were still able to come together in their artistic ideology for readers of all stripes.</p><p><br></p><p>The commonality of their artistic and cultural ideology as featured in this biographical work and the length of their professional friendship are the bases of the shared decision to co-author this book. They connected during their respective refugee lives first meeting at a cultural festival in Togo and later migrating together to Ghana where they lived together in the same room in Buduburam (Ghana's refugee camp) for a long time and did several collaborations with different professional callings.</p><p><br></p><p>While compiling records for this jointly written book they were in different countries Samuel Siafa Taylor in China and Emmanuel Blessed Lavelah in Liberia. But they continued collaborating for self-development and for the artistic growth of their common denominator: Liberia. Each person's biography is on his side of the book.</p><p><br></p><p>This book begins with a background of Liberia's civil war which pushed each of us to a foreign country where God connected us on through our shared artistic and cultural ideologies. This was followed by a historical sketch of Ghana's refugee community inhabited first by Liberians when each person's talent was nurtured and matured to a profession.</p><p><br></p><p>The active verbs in the main narratives of the book show that the authors were still in the refugee camp when the records were being compiled. </p><p><br></p><p>For this book the authors found information about the plight of China-based Liberians and other Africans (during COVID-19) and popular pre-war Liberian musicians cultural performers and writers from Wikipedia.</p>