In the same way that dual citizenship signifies a central topic of twenty-first century public discourse, Liberia’s official seal is subject to constant scrutiny because it reflects the exclusion that permeated the first 100 years of the country’s existence as a nation-state. Having never been formally colonised and more recently emerging from a protracted armed conflict, Liberia represents a stark case study in African citizenship construction because of its idiosyncratic history of black settler state formation and historical trajectory as a country of both immigration and emigration. In outlining the book’s rationale, unique contributions, scope, and organisation, this introductory chapter establishes how Liberian citizenship—and, by extension, the political economy of belonging to Liberia—has evolved since the founding of the nation-state in 1847 because of qualitative factors such as conflict, migration, and post-war recovery, with proposed dual citizenship legislation in 2008 serving as a contemporary manifestation of that reconfiguration across space and time.