Liberia: Sirleaf Receives Nobel Prize Saturday

The Nobel Prize Committee's announcement in October, this year, that it has selected three female peace and democracy activists, and that one of them is the sitting president of a tiny West African country, Liberia, initially sent the world into shock and ambivalence. Many world leaders hailed the choice as marvelous and timely, but a few politicians, including some Liberians, wondered what "good would come out of Africa, out of a postwar country struggling to reconcile and recover". Now the chips had Source