In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-Africa's "Iron Lady" - was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West African nation. In this stirring memoir, Sirle[...]

In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15. Charting her childhood and adolescence, the book covers Sirleaf's relation[...]

The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished[...]

Kun Ellen Johnson Sirleaf tammikuussa 2006 vannoi presidentin virkavalansa, ulkomaiset tarkkailijat sanoivat, että vihdoinkin Liberia on tiellä kohti demokratiaa. Johnson Sirleaf edustaa toivoa ja muutosta myös Afrikan ja koko maailman naisille. Hän on elävä esimerkki siitä, mitä tyttöjen k[...]