The Queens

On this article, "The Queens" is giving recognition to the first woman in Africa to be elected President of her country.

Meet Ellen Johnson Sirleaf a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa. 

She won the 2005 presidential election and took office on the 16th of January 2006 and was re-elected in 2011. 

Sirleaf was born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, on the 29th of October 1938, in Monrovia to a Gola fatherand Kru-German mother. 

She was educated at the College of West Africa. She completed her education in the United States, where she studied at Madison Business College and Harvard University. She returned to Liberia to work in William Tolbert's government as Deputy Minister of Finance from 1971 to 1974. Later, she worked again in the West, for the World Bank in the Caribbean and Latin America. In 1979, she received a cabinet appointment as Minister of Finance, serving to 1980.

She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, in recognition of her efforts to bring women into the peacekeeping process. She has received numerous other awards for her leadership. In June 2016, Sirleaf was elected as the Chair of the Economic Community of West African States, making her the first woman to hold the position since it was created.

"Hey Africa don't we need more women like this?" Great job ma'am!