One Woman's Rise to Power in Africa

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 8, 2017

Helene Cooper, New York Times Pentagon correspondent and the author of Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Simon & Schuster, 2017), talks about the rise to power of the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — the first female head of state of an African nation.

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