The University of Liberia on Thursday, March 10, 2022 restored unto Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh his professorship.
It was withdrawn from him nearly 50 years due to his critical stance on issues of national concern at the time against the status quo (True Whig Party) regime.
The ceremony which was held on the Fendell campus of the University of Liberia was witnessed by local and international community including presidents or academicians of various universities and colleges in Liberia, stakeholders or state actors, the United Nations Systems as well as active students of the university.
In early 1970s, Tipoteh served as an Associate Professor of Economics, Chairperson of the Economics Department and Director of the Management Research Institute at the University of Liberia but was sacked in 1973 for being critical of the status quo.
In 1973, following that, Tipoteh, Amos Sawyer (Deceased), Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr., John Stewart, Dew Mayson, Nya Taryor and others founded the Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA), a Pan-African political movement which played a pivotal role in the struggle for social justice and democracy globally from the 1970s upward.
He served as a Budget Advisor to the late Liberian President William Richard Tolbert and while in that position, he expressed concerns about government’s waste and advocated public management reforms.
Tipoteh, in his 81 years, was schooled at the College of West Africa (high school) and at the University of Liberia.
He earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in economics from Ohio University (Athens) and Ohio State University in Columbus, United States in June 1963 and 1964 respectively.
In 1969, he earned a Doctorate degree in economics while studying as a Harvard University/United Nations Special Fund Fellow in Economics Development at the University of Nebraska.
