Oh. Liberia looks crazy!!

Who needs natural disasters to torment a country when you have this many mental cases bouncing around a lawless state in Africa...

The Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean. The nation is home to 3,476,608 people and covers 111,369 square kilometres. Liberia's capital is Monrovia. Liberia has a hot equatorial climate with most rainfall arriving in summer with harsh harmattan winds in the dry season. Its populated Pepper Coast is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the sparsely populated inland is forested.

I was going to put Imperial greed at root-cause of the current volatilities, as well as the disrepair seen in Liberia at present. The Imperial past is so often at the centre of leadership problems in Africa. However, in this case the country was founded and colonized by freed American slaves with the help of a private organization called the American Colonization Society (1821-22). It was created on the premise American slaves would have greater freedom and equality there.

The plans seemed nice, as all the colonists formed an elite group in Liberian society, and, in 1847, they founded the Republic of Liberia, establishing a government modeled on that of the United States, naming Monrovia, their capital city, after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States and a prominent supporter of the colonization.

But, a military-led coup in 1980 overthrew then-president William R. Tolbert, which marked the beginning of a period of instability that eventually led to a civil war that left hundreds of thousands of people dead and devastated the country's economy. Today, Liberia is recovering from the lingering effects of the civil war and related economic dislocation.

VICE founder Shane Smith and Editor Andy Capper, visited Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war. One of the men giving us a guided tour is Joshua Blahyi, aka General Butt Naked, an ex-war lord famed for forcing his soldiers to fight wearing nothing but shoes. Blahyi admits to killing more than 20,000 people and drinking the blood of children, but now spends his time preaching about his quest for forgiveness...