PROFESSOR K-MOSES NAGBE is the product of interdisciplinary education. He has been a student of literature, law, the media, accounting, and education. He has a worldview which is critical of power dynamics but empathetic to competitors for power and survival. In short he is both a deconstructionist and a humanist. Professor Nagbe holds degrees from Africa and America. Before obtaining college degrees in Africa, Professor Nagbe studied at the Sasstown Government School (Grand Kru County), the Sinoe High School (Sinoe County) and the Modern Commercial Institute in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. He then went on to earn a degree in English and a degree in law from the University of Liberia and its professional school, the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law.
Professor Nagbe has also earned a master’s in English from the Glassboro (now Rowan) State University in New Jersey, United States of America. This was a three-part program comprising literature and linguistics, supervision and curriculum studies, and media studies. This meant that the professor was trained to create and teach courses in language and media studies.
He has taught for thirty years to date. He has taught at the University of Liberia, the Don Bosco (now Stella Maris) Polytechnic, the Samford Dennis High School, the Monrovia College and Industrial Arts School, and the College of West Africa. He has taught on the English faculty of both Montgomery College and the Prince George’s Community College, all in the State of Maryland, USA.
In Liberia, Professor Nagbe has served as media advisor and trainer. He helped write the curriculum of the Liberian Institute of Journalism, once owned and operated by Media Specialist Vennie Hodges. Professor Nagbe served as an original member of the Liberian Annual Conference committee headed by Dr. C. Wesley Armstrong to study and help establish the United Methodist University in Liberia. More besides, Professor Nagbe has served as president of the Liberia Association of Writers (LAW) and president of the University of Liberia Faculty Association (ULFA). As well he has served as Deputy Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Information, and Legal Counsel and Deputy Minister for Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Transport.
A lover of Language and Letters, Professor Nagbe has to his credit a large body of publications. His novels include Whispers, One Saturday in August, A Scream in the Storm, Wings for the Next Day, Sun at Midnight, and The Road to Romeo; one literary study titled Nuggets of the African Novel: With Notes on the Liberian Literary Heritage. His sociocultural works include Fright and Flight: A Reflection on My Refugee Life in Ghana and Just Like Yesterday: A Community Biography of the Sasstown People, two autobiographical accounts titled In the Shadow of Words: Why I Write What I Write and Between the Scissors: Growing Up as an Afrestern Liberian. Professor Nagbe has also done numerous articles including“The Dangers and Delights of Democracy,” “The Politics of Popular Values,” “Taming the Tyranny of the Few,” "Any Man’s Death: A Reflection on the Liberian Tragedy,” “The Path of Brutish Beasts: An Analysis of the Liberian Crisis.”
Professor Nagbe has been a USIA-sponsored International Visiting Fellow, which made him travel through several states of America and interact with several institutions of higher education. He also has been featured on BBC (the British Broadcasting Corporation radio) for his writing career. He now owns and operates a small family group of creative ventures named and styled the Creative Stretch Enterprise comprising a publishing division, an arts division, and a research division.
