Title: This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
Author: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Publisher: Harper
Year: 2009
315 pages
Memoir and history intertwine here, usually engagingly and sometimes with a degree of detail that's a little boring to those not conversant with recent Liberian politics. Still, Sirleaf has had an amazing life with surprisingly good outcomes, considering how chutzpahdik she's been when confronted by threats of imminent torture, rape, or death. It's quite an astonishing story.
Read with Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones to see how the Charles Taylor years affected nearby countries, and with The House at Sugar Beach for another, and different, story of a "Congo" woman surviving the Liberian conflicts.
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