Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, sometimes known as Mama Ellen, has written a riveting tell-all book about her life from early youth to her accession to the country’s highest post.
In this stirring memoir, Sirleaf
tells of the years spent as the daughter
of parents born into poverty and
the path that took her to a career
in government finance and international
banking and in 2006, the presidency
of Liberia.
“I wasn’t exactly catapulted into all this, you know –– I’ve paid the price and earned the stripes,’’ Sirleaf Johnson said in a media interview. "I’ve navigated in a man’s world. I took positions, and I stuck with them. I carried on with whatever I thought was the right thing to do and always made sure that my performance was equal to or better than theirs.’’
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