Toni Randolph's Blogs
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In Which MPR News Meets a (Future) Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in November 2010.She was our last appointment of a 10-day visit that took us from Monrovia to Bong and Nimba counties in the interior of the country. It was a great meeting -- 90 minutes, no holds barred on any topic our group of 12 journalists could think of: why she was running for re-election, progress and safety for women, education, peace-building and more. She struck me as strong and she struck me as genuine. No muss, no fuss. I'd read her memoir before I the trip. I was expecting it to be more like required reading rather than anything compelling. But it was very interesting and a good read. It provided not only historical information, but a good sense of what the country was like today...and a very good sense of the woman in charge. President Sirleaf told our group...
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