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...Okonjo-Iweala also became Nigeria’s first female minister of foreign affairs in July 2006, but resigned six weeks after the appointment, a move that may have resulted from a personal clash with Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. She left the government to focus her efforts on the many firms she has started, among them the eponymous NOI, Nigeria’s first independent polling organization, which partners with Gallup...
...Much of Okonjo-Iweala’s success in her work is due to her love for what she does, according to her children...
...Okonjo-Iweala, life at Harvard required many adjustments as she assimilated to American culture. The first surprise came on move-in day, when Okonjo-Iweala learned that dorms were...
...time when Harvard had very few internationals, Okonjo-Iweala says she spent much of her time with fellow foreign students...
...Clara Y. Jones ’77, a close friend and college roommate, recalls that Okonjo-Iweala would sometimes feel homesick and cook African food on a hot plate in the room they shared, first in Thayer their sophomore year, and then in Dunster House during her junior and senior years...