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May 25, 2010

Liberia
Liberia's Sirleaf: Reform in Africa

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says her country and region continue to make democratic strides, but she appealed for greater foreign investment to build economic and political capacity.

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May 25, 2010

Liberia
A Conversation with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Please join us as President Johnson Sirleaf discusses Liberia's progress and continuing challenges ahead. With national elections approaching in 2011, she will share her views on Liberia's peace and …

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March 14, 2022

Nigeria
Mummy G.O.: Nigeria’s Much-Derided Pentecostal Preacher Enunciates a Powerful Social Critique

Within the space of a few months, fifty-five-year-old evangelist Olufunmilayo Adebayo, popularly known as Mummy G.O., has gone from the relative obscurity of downscale Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, to the most discussed subject in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism. The target of a blizzard of savage internet memes and unrelenting mockery, the founder and leader of the self-styled Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God (RAPEC) has been getting all the attention in a context where the leading—and mostly male—clerical figures dominate the news as a matter of course.

Worshippers attending mass wear face masks and sit in individual chairs six feet away from each other.