Johnson Sirleaf refers to the “prophesy” elsewhere in the book, usually with irony her family would wryly remind her of it when, for instance, she was trapped in a physically abusive marriage, or when she fell into the latrine, or when she was locked up in prison a couple of time by dictatorship governments of Liberia at the time, with no idea whether she would be executed, raped or released. As the story goes, the old man took one look at me and turned to my mother with a strange expression on his face. My mother brought the old man into the room where I lay kicking and cooing on the bed. When I was just a few days old, an old man came to visit my parents, to see the new baby and to offer his good wishes, as people did both then and now in my country and everywhere. While Forbes indicates it like this, “Sirleaf’s life was remarkable.”Īnd the Publishers Weekly states in this style, “ In and out of government, in and out of exile, but consistent in her commitment to Liberia, Sirleaf in her memoir reveals herself to be among the most resilient, determined and courageous as well… Widely instructive.” Excerpt: The New York Times Book Review puts it as, “ accessible walk through Liberian history, told by someone who was somehow always in the center of the political storm.” THIS CHILD WILL BE GREAT is a Memoir of a Remarkable Life by AFRICA’s FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF.
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