Liberian Nobel Peace prizewinner autobiography

Online Book Clubber Ilana Rabinowitz of Vaucluse, NSW, went to hear Liberian peace activist Lemah Gbowee speak at the Sydney Opera House this past weekend (April 5, 2013) and  was moved to buy the Nobel Peace prizewinner's book, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War (easily available from online book retailers).

     "What a story of sisterhood, courage and the power of positive action!" 

   Gbowee is responsible for leading a women's peace movement that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. According to Wikipedia, her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. This made Liberia the first African nation to have a female president.

Nobel Peace prizewinner &
author LEMAH GBOWEE

     She, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." 
      After reading this book, will any of we First Worlders complain and whinge about petty domestic dramas again? Let's pray not! >>>