Nearly a year after the Nobel Prize, Gbowee, speaking on a visit to Paris for the launch of the French edition of her book ‘Mighty Be Our Powers’, declared: “People are very disappointed. Former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and activist Leymah Gbowee shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize along with Tawakkul Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. Nearly a year after the Nobel Prize, Gbowee, speaking on a visit to Paris for the launch of the French edition of her book ‘Mighty Be Our Powers’, declared: “People are very disappointed. Former President Sirleaf who inducted the network’s steering committee headed by Madam Marjon Kamara, a career diplomat and Liberia’s former foreign minister, challenged the group to take a stand for peace. “We worked hard for peace,” Gbowee said in 2021, noting that Sirleaf herself was critical of the regime of William Richard Tolbert, who was Liberia’s president from 1971 to 1980.

Source: Front Page Africa December 20, 2019 06:22 UTC