Joe Mulbah

Joseph W. Mulbah (1956–2011) was a Liberian journalist and politician. He served as Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism and Minister of Transport.

Youth and early journalistic career Mulbah was born in Montserrado County on 26 June 1956. He became the chief news editor of the ELWA radio station. In 1985 he was forced out of his job after pressures from the military junta, after having reported on electoral fraud in the general elections.

Civil war years and entry into government During the First Liberian Civil War, Mulbah was among the NPFL-aligned journalists that evacuated to Gbarnga in 1991 as NPFL was expelled from the Monrovia area by ECOMOG, AFL and INPFL. October 1991 he was declared as elected interim president of the Press Union of Liberia by the pro-NPFL journalists gathered in Gbarnga. Mulbah acted as a NPFL spokesperson. In April 2000 President Taylor suspended Mulbah and his Deputy Minister of Information J. Milton Teahjay for a seven-week period after the two had engaged in a fist fight. Whilst Teahjay was later reinstated, Mulbah was not. Mulbah was named Minister of Transport on February 4, 2002, and served in this role until 2003.

Later years Mulbah came to hold an associate professor post at the department of mass communication at the University of Liberia, also being the chairman of the department.

Mulbah died on 11 November 2011, whilst en route to Du-Side Hospital in Margibi County.