Alaric Kormu Tokpa is a

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

n politician and political scientist. He ran alongside George Klay Kieh in the

New Deal Movement The New Deal Movement (NDM) is a political party in Liberia. In the 2005 general election, the presidential candidate of the party, George Klay Kieh, Jr. and his running mate Alaric Tokpa won 0.5% of the votes, while the Party received 3.62% of ...

and, as a pair, received 0.5% of the vote in the 11 October 2005

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. Tokpa has been pursuing a Ph.D. at

Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the Southern United States. Found ...

. As of 2002, Tokpa was the acting Chairman of the Department of

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

at the

University of Liberia The University of Liberia (UL or LU in older versions of abbreviation) is a publicly funded institution of higher learning located in Monrovia, Liberia. Authorized by the national government in 1851, the university opened in 1862 as Liberia Coll ...

.Meet New Deal's Presidential Aspirant, George Klay Kieh, Jr.
The Perspective, 5 November 2002

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Living people Clark Atlanta University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) New Deal Movement politicians University of Liberia alumni Liberian politicians Academic staff of the University of Liberia {{Liberia-politician-stub