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Biography of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson
Ellen, the Nobel Peace prize winner, is regarded as the Iron Lady of Africa.
This is because becoming President in a male dominated society is not what we come by every
day.
She's the first democratically elected female President in Africa.
Ellen Sirleaf Johnson is from a mixed family background with her father from Gola and Mother
having a mixed Kru and German ancestry, because of her education in America she is considered
America-Liberian but has said countless times that she does not see herself in that light.
Ellen's father wasn't born with the name Johnson but he adopted the name when he moved
to Monrovia because of his love for Liberia's first indigenous president, Hilary R.W. Johnson.
Johnson was raised by an America-Liberian family, the McCritty's.
Growing up he ventured into politics and later became the first Liberian from an indigenous
ethnic group to be elected into Liberia national legislature.
Her mother was born into poverty, but was adopted by a prominent America-Liberian family.
Ellen was born in 1938 in the city of Monrovia.
In 1948, she started her formal education at the College of West Africa, a preparatory
school and finished in 1955.
She fell in love with James Sirleaf and they got married when she was just 17.
Together they had four sons, and in 1961 they left for America where she obtained an associate
degree in Accounting at Madison Business College.
That same year, the couple divorced.
Shortly after their divorce she returned to school to finish her bachelor's degree.
In 1970, she got a BA from the Economics Institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and
studied economics and public policy at Harvard from 1969 to 1971.
Upon her return to Liberia she was appointed Assistant Minster of Finance in William Tolbert's
cabinet.
During her tenure, she initiated brilliant policies that helped the country's economy.
She resigned 1973 from Tolbert's administration after disagreeing with how the country's
money was been spent.
Years later, she was appointed as Minister of Finance from 1979 to April 1980.
Her boss was assassinated by Samuel Doe, who seized power in a military coup in 1980.
As Doe and his men took over, Sirleaf was made president of the Liberian Bank of Development
and Investment.
But their relationship did not last as she fled the country for criticizing Doe's government's
spending.
After moving to Washington, she worked for World Bank and in 1981, moved to Kenya to
serve as Vice President of the African Regional Office of Citibank.
In 1992, she was appointed Director of the United Nations Development Program.
Over the years, Sirleaf held countless positions in the international community- she was one
of the seven persons sent by Organization of African Unity now African Union to investigate
the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
Sirleaf was also the chairperson of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa and was
a visiting Professor at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
Her interest in politics can be traced back to 1985 when she returned to Liberia to run
as Vice President with Jackson Doe under Liberian Action Party.
By August she was placed under house arrest, and afterwards sentenced to 10 years in prison
for sedition after found guilty of insulting members of the Samuel Doe government but she
was released following an outcry from the international community.
She was stopped from running for Vice Presidency and then opted for a Senate seat in Montserrado
County.
By 1989, Liberia Civil War started and Sirleaf raised money to support Taylor's opposition
against Doe.
She founded National Patriotic Front of Liberia with Taylor and Tom Woewiyu.
Because of the part she played in the war, Doe's government suggested that she be banned
from Liberia politics for 30 years.
Years later, she was against Taylor's handling of the war.
In 1996, ECOWAS intervened in the country's crisis and Sirleaf returned to contest in
the country's 1997 general election under the Unity Party and she came second in an
election marred by irregularities
She made known her displeasure about the result that favoured Taylor and was accused of treason,
she was sent on exile to Abidjan.
In 2005 after the end of the Second Liberian Civil War, she contested for presidency under
the same Unity Party- she was second to George Weah but in the runoff, she emerged winner.
Her inauguration had to be delayed because Weah rejected the results but after investigations,
she was inaugurated as the first female President in Liberia and Africa.
And in 2010, she ran for second tenure which sparked criticism from some quarters but by
16th of January 2012 she was sworn into office for second term.
Her net worth is about 1.7 million U.S.D
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