Liberia, Sept. 15 -- Monrovia- In Left Brain, Right Brain, Thoughts and Musings of a Servant, Ambassador Nathaniel Barnes, one of Liberia's astute diplomats offers a gripping portrait in governance and the political entanglements marred by faulty establishments that has kept Africa's oldest republic on the downward trend of the economic and political uncertainty.

Ambassador Barnes who served as Minister of Financeunder PresidentCharles Taylor fromfrom 1999 to 2001, ran on the ticket of the Liberia Destiny Party(LDP) in the 2005 Presidential elections, placing 12th out of 22 candidates, receiving 1.0% of the votes. From 2006 to 2008, he served as the Permanent Representative of the United Nations and from 2008 to 2010 he served asLiberia's ...