Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Born
in Monrovia, Liberia
October 29, 1938
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
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2009
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Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa's First Woman President
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Redemption Road
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2008
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Progress of the World's Women 2002 Volume One
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2003
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Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
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2010
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Die hohe Kunst der Politik: Die Ära Angela Merkel
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No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk (Oxfam Briefing Papers Book 172)
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“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
― This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
― This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
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“Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery, and redevelopment while others cannot? These are critical questions for Africa, and their answers are complex and not always clear. Leadership is crucial, of course. Kagame was a strong leader–decisive, focused, disciplined, and honest–and he remains so today. I believe that sometimes people's characters are molded by their environment. Angola, like Liberia, like Sierra Leone, is resource-rich, a natural blessing that sometimes has the sad effect of diminishing the human drive for self-sufficiency, the ability and determination to maximize that which one has. Kagame had nothing. He grew up in a refugee camp, equipped with only his own strength of will and determination to create a better life for himself and his countrymen. ”
― This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
― This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
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