Posts Tagged ‘ellen johnson sirleaf’
And, belatedly, Madame President (in English or Dutch)
Sorry for the silence; writing about Liberia has taken over my life since…Liberia.
A few weeks ago, Newsweek ran a Q&A I did with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the country’s president and Africa’s first female elected head of state. (Glenna and I wanted to know why people always put it that way, so we looked into [...]
Is Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf a war criminal?
The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission doesn’t quite say yes…but it does say that perhaps the much-lauded president of the new Liberia has more to answer for than she necessarily admits. In today’s TIME.com, Glenna Gordon writes:
In its final report, released yesterday, Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a body modeled on South Africa’s [...]
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