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This child will be great : memoir of a remarkable life by Africa's first woman president
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From Liberian President Sirleaf--Africa's first elected female president--comes an inspirational memoir about her improbable rise to international prominence, her fight for political freedom, and h...
From Liberian President Sirleaf--Africa's first elected female president--comes an inspirational memoir about her improbable rise to international prominence, her fight for political freedom, and her unwavering determination to rebuild Liberia in the wake of civil war.
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- Creator
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Harper, 2009
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- 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780061353475, 0061353477
- OCLC
- ocn232978243
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The beginning -- Childhood ends -- America again -- The Tolbert years -- The 1980 coup -- Climbing the corporate ladder -- The 1985 elections -- The attempted coup -- Escape -- Equator bank and the Charles Taylor war -- ECOMOG -- UNDP and Rwanda -- War some more/1997 elections -- Self-imposed exile, or exile again -- Accra and the transition -- Becoming President -- Inauguration day -- The first hundred days -- Some challenges ahead -- The future -- Appendix: Inaugural speech by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf