New Kru Town is a northwestern coastal suburb of Monrovia, Liberia.
Overview
New Kru Town is a northwestern coastal suburb of Monrovia, located on the north end of Bushrod Island. It is the only borough in Liberia.[3]
The town grew as a planned "transplant" town of Old Kru Town after World War II when "Old Kru Town was evacuated for the development of a new breakwater for the new port with assistance from the Liberian government".[4] Being located where the Saint Paul River estuary meets the Atlantic Ocean, sea-fishing is an important source of income.[5]
A slum area, it has been subject to ethnic tensions.[6]Squatted houses are built in precarious zones and in 2013, 200 homes were washed away by a high tide.[7] In 2019 President George Weah appointed Tarpeh D. Carter as governor of New Kru Town, replacing Alice Weah.[8] New Kru Town constitutes the Montserrado-16 electoral district.[2]
Landmarks
An "imposing" church was built in New Kru Town in about 1975 by American missionaries.[9] It also contains the Redemption Hospital and the multi-million dollar D. Tweh Memorial High School, "originally named in honor of Tolbert before the 1980 coup".[10] An avenue, Botoe Avenue, is named after Thomas Nimene Botoe.
New Kru Town (or Zone Z100) is divided into 14 communities;
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References
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^ a b cNational Electoral Commission. "Montserrado County Electoral District No.16 2017"
^"Liberia Housing Profile" (PDF). United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2014. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
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^United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1982). Sub-Saharan Africa report. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. pp. 59–60. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^Dolo, Emmanuel (31 October 2007). Ethnic Tensions in Liberia's National Identity Crisis: Problems and Possibilities. Africana Homestead Legacy Pb. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-9770904-1-9. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^Tipple, Graham (2014). Liberia: Housing profile (PDF). Nairobi, Kenya: UN-HABITAT. ISBN 978-92-1-132626-0.
^Executive Mansion. "New Kru Town Gets New Governor"
^Gifford, Paul (16 May 2002). Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia. Cambridge University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-521-52010-2. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^Maps (Map). Google Maps. - Sherman, Frank (31 January 2010). Liberia: The Land, Its People, History and Culture. Godfrey Mwakikagile. p. 52. ISBN 978-9987-16-025-9. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services. "Population 2008, 2014 by County, District, Clan and Households, Liberia" Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine