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Article: Coping With Civil War: Daylight Disco Dancing
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 13, 1995
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Liberians, with their 173-year-old connection with the United
States, often have imitated American fads. But now they may have
invented one of their own -- daytime discotheques.
The discotheques, for a $2 cover charge, do a thriving afternoon
trade, not out of choice but out of necessity. This increasingly
decrepit capital, which was founded by freed American slaves, has
been so much affected by civil war that night life is no longer
possible. Nocturnal dance halls, that distinguishing characteristic
of so much of West Africa once the day's worst heat has subsided,
have become a distant memory of the way things were before the war
started on Christmas Eve 1989.
So, too, has round-the-clock ...