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This Child Will Be Great LP: Memoir Of A Remarkable Life By Africa's First Woman President (2009)

by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061720127 (ISBN13: 9780061720123)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

HarperLuxe

review 1: Loved the beginning, put it down and struggled after the first 60 pages, and then became engaged in the latter two-thirds. Overall very good read and I really wanted to finish. I remember quite a bit of this from history classes in the early 80s....for whatever reason I don't remember her, just some of the events. I read so much African history back then...need to catch up on some of the other West African countries.
review 2: In her first run for President her opponent's slogan was "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, so I will vote for him". Yikes! She lost that election (through fraud and intimidation) - but the courage to run in such an atmosphere is amazing! The book is a summary of her life - not particularly warm and full of personal details, but ... morean overview of Liberia before, during, and after some of the worst dictators and warmongerers in world history. She never shrinks from her mistakes (at first she supported Charles Taylor because the dictator at the time was also bad for the country), but tells things the way she saw them at the time. A remarkable person. less

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