Black History All Year 2020 . . From 1948 until 1955, Johnson studied accounting and economics at the College of West Africa in Monrovia. Sirleaf traveled to the United States,eventually received a scholarship, and then earned a B.B.A. in Accounting from the Madison (Wisconsin) Business College in 1964. Sirleaf continued her studies and received a degree in economics from the University of Colorado in 1970, followed by a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1971. . . In 1972, 34 year old Sirleaf returned to Liberia to serve as Assistant Minister of Finance for President William Tolbert, a post she held for one year until 1973. In 1979, she became Liberia’s first female Minister of Finance. After narrowly escaping being assassinated, Sirleaf fled to Nairobi, Kenya, where she served as Director of Citibank from 1983 to 1985. Returning to Liberia in 1985 to run for a seat in the Senate, Sirleaf was sentenced to 10 years for criticizing now President Doe’s military regime. After serving a partial jail sentence, Sirleaf fled to the United States in 1986 where she first worked at the (HSCB) Equator Bank in Washington, D.C., and later as Assistant Administrator and then Director of the United Nations Development Program Regional Bureau for Africa from 1992 to 1997. . . In 1997, Sirleaf returned to Liberia a third time. On this occasion she ran for president but lost badly to President Charles Taylor. When Taylor was deposed by a coalition of African armies, Sirleaf joined the transitional government which set the stage for the 2005 election. She ran for president again winning over 60% of the vote as she defeated George Weah, a former international soccer star. . . #ellensirleaf #ellen #monrovia #liberia #assistantminister #firstwomanpresident #firstwoman #georgeweah #liberianfood #nobelprize #nobelpeaceprize #liberiapresident #makeadifferencetoday #blackhistorymonth2020 #blackhistory365 (at Monrovia, Liberia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9PVcUWA7tv/?igshid=umolip3om14a