He became a debunker of spiritualism, a film star, a publisher and an author, earning titles like the Handcuff King, the Prison Breaker and the Self-Liberator.
At times earsplittingly cacophonous, at times charged with an astonishing rhythmic energy, Oehring's music communicates a kind of savage joy; one two-minute stretch in his piece "Self-Liberator" could go over big on the dance floor of the Roxy.
By the summer of 1920, however, the self-styled liberators faced a full-blown revolt.
I went out into the streets to photograph the self-proclaimed liberators.
But like too many self-proclaimed liberators across post-colonial Africa, Mr. Kabila proved to be a tyrant himself.
The enthusiastic welcome shown by some in Kabul for their self-proclaimed liberators was maybe in part wisely put on for the occasion.
The enthusiastic welcome shown by some in Kabul for their self-proclaimed liberators was no doubt in part motivated by fear.
As the A.D.F.L. swept through Zaire, Mobutu's soldiers fleed, raping and looting their way through town after town along the route of the rebel advance, thereby insuring a warm welcome for Kabila's self-proclaimed liberators...
Several birds and mink died shortly after their self-styled liberators cut holes in fences and nets, when they were hit by cars or fell to prey, the farms' owners said.
As the A.D.F.L. swept through Zaire, Mobutu's soldiers fleed, raping and looting their way through town after town along the route of the rebel advance, thereby insuring a warm welcome for Kabila's self-proclaimed liberators..... View Article Philip Gourevitch has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1995, and a staff writer since 1997.
Appealing to Nonconformist notions of progress and self-help, the Liberator pandered to those aspiring to Britain's burgeoning suburbia with the motto, 'A free home makes a free man'.
