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A fact from History of West Africa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 August 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Liberia is the only nation in the history of West Africa never to have been colonised?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/August.

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