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...worked on Johnson-Sirleaf’s campaign and has hosted the president as a guest in her home. She noted that the war in Liberia “makes the U.S. Civil War look like a picnic.” Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at HKS, also spoke to the Iron Lady’s fearless leadership. “She’s got the toughest job of any president of any African country,” he said. And Ellwood said Johnson-Sirleaf has taken...
...have been raining outside the tent at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forum, but Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf left the audience with a sunny message: If this Kennedy School graduate can change the world...
Wearing crimson in honor of the school’s Class Day festivities, Johnson-Sirleaf encouraged the graduates to bring the same courage and integrity to their work as leaders as she has brought to the task of rebuilding her war-torn country since she was inaugurated...
From a podium flanked by the American and Liberian flags, Johnson-Sirleaf—nicknamed the “Iron Lady” for her steely resolve—counseled those going into public service to stay true to their ideals, even when threatened with political dismissal, exile, or imprisonment. Johnson-Sirleaf herself was exiled from Kenya in 1980 and imprisoned later that decade in Liberia...
...autocrats still control Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, Mugabe is the last of that Old Guard of former freedom fighters. His passing would befit an Africa that is entering a new era characterized by democracy, peace, robust economic growth and a fresh generation of capable leaders like Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Few nations have suffered more from the failures of the generation that led Africa to independence than Zimbabwe, and no people more than Zimbabweans deserve the type of leadership that is transforming the continent for the better...