The former Liberian president will launch a plan on Sunday to help other African women reach the top in a continent dominated by male heads of state
Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Picture: REUTERS
“We're creating this wave of women who are ready to take high-level leadership positions in society, and they're going to do it unabashedly, they're going to go for it intentionally,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. The Amujae Initiative, which means “we are going up” in Liberian local dialect, is the flagship programme of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development, which Johnson Sirleaf established after leaving office in 2018.
The first cohort of participants, who will meet several times a year, include Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, and Malado Kaba, Guinea's first female finance minister, as well as lawyers and activists.
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