The award-winning photographer spent eight years living and working in West Africa. This collection entwines documentary photography, oral testimony and personal writing which explores the dynamics of power, international complicity and the search for history in Liberian history. The document brings to life an extraordinary range of characters - from warlords to presidents, envirnmental activists to political hustlers. Hetherington was one of the only journalists to live behind rebel lines during the civil war creating an essential history of Liberia.