External Affairs Corporate Communications, World Bank
and
Africa External Affairs, World Bank
Invite you to a screening of highlights from the upcoming documentary
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| | IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA |
| | Directors: Siatta Johnson |
| (Embedded image moved to file: | and Daniel Junge |
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| | After nearly two decades of |
| | civil war, Liberia is a |
| | nation ready for change. On |
| | January 16 2006, Ellen |
| | Johnson Sirleaf was |
| | inaugurated President. She |
| | is the first ever freely |
| | elected female head of |
| | state in Africa. Winning a |
| | hotly contested election |
| | with the overwhelming |
| | support of women across |
| | Liberia, since taking |
| | office she has appointed |
| | other extraordinary women |
| | to leadership positions in |
| | all areas of government. |
| | Can the first female |
| | Liberian president bring |
| | sustainable democracy and |
| | peace to such a devastated |
| | country? With exclusive |
| | access, African director |
| | Siatta Johnson follows |
| | President Sirleaf and her |
| | closest aides behind the |
| | scenes during their first |
| | year in office. |
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Monday, July 16, 2007
12:30pm
World Bank J Building (J1-050)
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Introduction by
Carl Patrick Hanlon
Manager, EXTCC, The World Bank
Discussion by filmmaker:
Siatta Johnson
Siatta Scott-Johnson was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and
raised in rural Grand Bassa County. She speaks English, Liberia
Dialect English, and Bassa fluently and is the mother of two
(Kundu,12 and Mosiatta, 8). Johnson fled Grand Bassa in the early
90?s with the outbreak of war, and eventually settled in Monrovia,
where she was caught during the last of the violence in 2003. She
has been an instructor at the secondary school level in Monrovia for
three years, and she has five years of experience as a reporter and
producer at DCTV, one of Liberia?s few broadcast television
stations.
Siatta is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media.
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