a remarkable film from africa's oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and sixty four percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovia's disadvantaged poor from the witness series in two thousand and twelve here is alfred's free press. hello. hello. what we're doing is like this our responsibility. to measure the information. from those who. tell you they receive. our job.