Mershon post-doctoral scholar Brooks Marmon, a researcher of pan-African diplomacy and transnational political networks in southern Africa, conducted an interview for the Review of African Political Economy blog. In the piece, Marmon introduces the work and life of D. Elwood Dunn.

Dunn, a Liberian intellectual and former politician, asserts Liberia’s position in the pan-African, anti-colonial world in the 1970s. While Liberia was associated with moderate states in the 1960s, Dunn sees Liberia, under William R. Tolbert, as a progressive force helping to shape Africa’s post-colonial political trajectory.