“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes the first female President in Africa when she is elected in Liberia.
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