Mighty Be Their Powers
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Publisher Description
How sisterhood, prayer and sex changed a nation at war.
Defy a dictator. Unite your people. End a war. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country - and shattered Gbowee's girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realisation that it is women who suffer most during conflicts - and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force. In 2003, Gbowee helped organise and then led the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia's ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. Mighty Be Our Powers is a gripping chronicle of Gbowee's journey from hopelessness to empowerment and how, together with the women of Liberia, she delivered peace to a nation.'Mighty Be Our Powers reminds us that even in the worst of times, humanity's best can shine through' - ARCHBISHOP DESMOND tUtU, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Sometimes other people’s staggering courage and indomitable sense of justice are the greatest sources of inspiration. Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee shares her story—and those of her sisters in the struggle to end a violent civil war and demand women’s rights—in vivid and engrossing prose. Her journey from modest upbringing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful reminder that there is nothing more impressive than fighting for our convictions.