A wonderful day and night in Kigali at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation weekend as HE President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf becomes the fifth African and first female leader to receive the Mo Ibrahim Governance Prize. She will utilize the $5m award to set up a foundation to train and empower female leaders on the continent.

Please click the link to listen to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s elegant, powerful and impactful speech — a legacy speech in which she talks about building and developing a fragile state from scratch, the imperative of empowering girls and women and the necessity of confronting corruption.

Ellen was surrounded by Presidents Kagame and Ouattara, former President Horst Kohler, former Prime Ministers Desalegn of Ethiopia and Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania, Mo Ibrahim among others.

http://mo.ibrahim.foundation/annual-event/ceremony/2018/

Great women