Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

by Pamela Scully

Book Overview

In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15. Charting her childhood and adolescence, the book covers Sirleaf's relationship with her indigenous grandmother and urban parents, her early marriage, her years studying in the United States, and her career in international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821422219
• ISBN13: 9780821422212
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.2" x 6.9"