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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Members of the Kru tribe of Liberia are mentioned in some of the World\u2019s History books on West Africans who migrated to other African Countries through commercial Ships owned by business entities or being operated by Westerners\u2014Americans, Britons, Portuguese, etc.<\/p>\n

One of these West African migrants was a Liberian of Grand Kru County, situated in southeastern Liberia. Available records say he was born in 1863, but there is confusion about his name. One record gives \u201cWolo\u201d as his surname; another presents \u201cWorjloh\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, each of the two surnames is a \u201ccorrupted version\u201d of the real one (Kru)\u2014Worro, says one of the man\u2019s great-grand children, based in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The great-grand child said, majority of Liberians mistake the wrong one, Wrojloh, for the right one (Worro) because pronunciation problems with majority of Liberians, especially the non-Krus<\/p>\n

\u201cHis real Liberian name was John Worro, and he died on May 27, 1952,\u201d a United States-based Liberian, president of a Liberian heritage-promotion organization, made the correction on the name in an e-mail to the writer of this story December 21, 2021. \u201cI\u2019m quoting the Kru man\u2019s great-grandson,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The Kru man worked on a British Ship being operated by a Briton, travelled with the Ship to South Africa, but adopted the surname of the Ship\u2019s British Captain\u2014Brooks, disclosed Mrs. Wainie Goe-Abmed, U.S.-based co-founder and president of Liberia Heritage Society (founded in the United States of America), told this writer through an e-mail from America.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn South Africa, he married a white South African woman, they had two children, but the woman later left him because of pressure from her relatives and friends who were sternly against bi-racial marriage, and she abandoned the couple\u2019s two children with him to alone take care of,\u201d Mrs. Abmed, born and raised in America, told this writer through an e-mail. \u201cHowever, the Kru man never forgot his ancestral root, Liberia. When his two children were adults, he narrated stories of their father\u2019s ancestral home, Liberia. Each of the children told his children what grandpa had told him\u2026until the Wolo or Worjloh ancestry story came down to the second-generation of the great-grand father, including Ricardio Brooks\u2014husband of Wendy Brooks who contacted us through our social media page and appealed to us to assist her husband on tracing his ancestral relatives in Liberia,\u201d the Liberia Heritage Society\u2019s head added during her interaction with this writer.<\/p>\n

On December 17, 2021, the Liberia Heritage Society convened its first meeting in Town Hall of New Kru Town in Monrovia for all Liberia-based Krus bearing \u201cWolo\u201d or \u201cWorjloh\u201d as surname. The meeting was convened through Mr. Roosevelt Weah, Liberia-based Field Coordinator of the Liberia Heritage Society. However, only five persons\u2014four men and one woman\u2014from the Wolo and Worjloh Clans showed up for the meeting. The name of the only female was Boyonnoh Worjloh of Sinoe County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been telling members of the Wolo and Worjloh Clans two weeks ago about today\u2019s meeting, so seeing this small number of representatives from the Clans is shocking to me,\u201d Mr. Weah complained to the gathered members of the Wolo and Worjloh Clans and a team of journalists when the meeting had started.<\/p>\n

Later, he came to the purpose of the meeting: interaction between the late Kru Sailor\u2019s living relatives in South Africa and Liberia-based Liberians whose surname is similar to the native\/real (Kru), and Liberia Heritage Society\u2019s president (to give a brief historical background of the Kru Sailor as provided by his South Africa-based great-grand children)<\/p>\n

Through a video chat, the president of Liberia Heritage Society relayed the information from the late Kru sailor\u2019s family in South Africa. This was followed by other video-related comments from Mrs. Wendy Brooks (an elderly wife of Mr. Ricardio Brooks) and another older woman identified as Teresetta, who claimed she\u2019s biologically related to the now-deceased Kru seafarer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe adopted Brooks, as surname, because there was problem with our great-grand father\u2019s Liberian name, Worro,\u201d Madam Teresetta Brooks said to the assembly of Wolos and Worjlohs at the New Kru Town\u2019s Hall. The third video recording was of Mrs. Wainie Abmed\u2019s biological father, Boniface Goe, in America, speaking flawless Kru to those at the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe name, Wolo, or Worjloh, is used by the Krus of three Counties\u2014Grand Kru, Maryland, and Sinoe. But that name is most popular with the Kru of Grand Kru County, and those from Sasstown use the name the most,\u201d explained Mr. Victor T. Worjloh, one of those at the ancestral connection meeting, after the video sessions.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with the writer of this story, Mr. Victor T. Worjloh said he was born on September 23, 1939 in Grand Kru County, and he\u2019s the Senior Pastor of the Voice of God Mission, based in New Kru Town, Monrovia.<\/p>\n

Another participant, Mr. Brown Worjloh Wrawreh, born in 1937, advised those searching for Kru sailor\u2019s living relatives to tour all Liberia\u2019s Counties with this name, only to find the real ancestral root and biological lineage. Mr. Wrawreh said he was born in Grand Bassa County.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kru language has different accents. The Kru spoken by a Kru person in Grand Kru County is different from the Kru spoken by a native of Sinoe County,\u201d Mr. Brown Worjloh Wrawreh said during an exclusive with a team of journalists outside the meeting venue after the interactive sessions.<\/p>\n

Liberia Heritage Society\u2019s president is a product from the marital union of Mr. Boniface Goe and Mrs. Elizabeth Teah, she said to this writer during an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father is of Grand Kru County, had lived in the County\u2019s capital, Barclayville. My mother was born in Takoradi, Ghana. My maternal grandmother migrated to Ghana, similar to the story of Mr. John Worro, who later adopted a foreign name,\u201d Mrs. Abmed said.<\/p>\n

The Liberia Heritage Society was founded in 2019, but got its legal status in 2020, and started operations on February 1, 2020, Mrs. Abmed said further.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Liberia Heritage Society was founded to preserve and promote Liberia\u2019s culture and heritage, encourage tourism, to educate and share information about Liberian heritage to organizations and entities,\u201d she said. The idea, of preservation and promotion of Liberia\u2019s heritage, was formulated through Mr. Lionel Frederick, co-founder, Mrs. Abmed said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe organization was born on my husband\u2019s advice, after I became disappointed with invitations to Liberian national arts or cultural festivals, bicentennial celebrations organized by the Government or individuals who didn\u2019t give us credit for our cultural ideas we had shared\u2014the main reason we had been invited,\u201d she complained.<\/p>\n

The organization participated in the National Culture Festival on December 9, 2020, organized by La Queen Entertainment founded by Miss Liberia Ms. Wokie Dolo.<\/p>\n

Since it began operations, and providing cultural ideas to other heritage\/culture-promotion organizations, the Liberia Heritage Society hasn\u2019t received any financial support from any person or Government, the organization\u2019s president revealed further.<\/p>\n

\u201cNinety-five percent of the funding for implementation of the organization\u2019s project comes from me and my husband,\u201d she said, and added, \u201cThe organization is open to Liberians and non-Liberians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Abmed said, even though she yearns for financial support from financially privileged individual persons, organizations, or Government, but she can\u2019t buy into the \u201cconditions\u201d explicitly or implicitly laid-down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t do political promotion, cannot do nudity program, and cannot promote fake news,\u201d she said, referring to the conditions from might-be financial supporters or sponsors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not somebody that will be another person\u2019s Pilot Paul to receive donations or funding. I respect myself, my work, and my heritage as a first-generation Kru lady, than to fit myself into another person\u2019s clique,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

On achievements by her organization on promotion of Liberia in America and other Countries, Mrs. Wainie Abmed replied: \u201cWe have been able to tell the World that Liberia is more than just civil war and Ebola. We have rich documented black heritage-related history that have spanned over 200 years, but this history has never been mentioned in world\u2019s history books.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Liberia Heritage Society has been receiving letters from Liberians from Liberia and other Countries, appealing to the organization to facilitate their \u201crelocation\u201d to the United States of America, president Wainie Abmed (Mrs.) disclosed to author of this story.<\/p>\n

Concluding with the biological confirmation of persons who claimed ancestrally linked to the 18th-century-born Kru man\u2014who adopted a British name (Brooks), the Liberia Heritage Society president declared to this Author: \u201cThe Liberia Heritage Society will take a DNA sample of Mr. Ricardio Brooks in South Africa and match it with each of those bearing \u2018Wolo\u2019 or \u2018Worjloh\u2019 in Liberia.\u201d She added: \u201cThe Liberia Heritage Society is accepting financial donations to fund Kru man\u2019s DNA project.\u201d<\/p>\n

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