For years Heidi W. Durrow heard the refrain: editors wouldn’t publish her novel because readers couldn’t relate to a protagonist who was part black and part Danish. But when that novel, “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky,” was finally published last year (after about four dozen rejections, said Ms. Durrow, who is, of course, black and Danish), the coming-of-age story landed on best-seller lists.
Nchi ya Liberia ni moja ya nchi chache za kiafrika ambazo hazijatawaliwa na watu wa Ulaya, Badala yake, nchi hii ya Liberia ilikuwa ni makao ya watumwa waliorudishwa kutoka nchini Marekani baada ya kusitishwa biashara ya watumwa. Nchi hii ndio nchi pekee ya kiafrika ambayo imeongozwa na raia wa kigeni kwa kipindi cha zaidi ya miaka mia moja huku rais wa kwanza mwenye asilia ya Liberia alipatikana mwaka 1980 baada ya mapinduzi yaliyomuondoa rais wa wakati huo.