#FridayFeature: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Liberia’s ‘Iron Lady’ Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendents of original colonists of Liberia (ex-African slaves from America, who promptly on arrival set about enslaving the indigenous people using the social system of their old American masters as a basis for their new society). These descendents are known

Friday Feature: Ahmed Sékou Touré Independence Leader & First President of Guinea Ahmed Sékou Touré  (9th January 1922 - 26 March 1984), first president of the Republic of Guinea (1958–84) and a leading African politician.   Although his parents were poor and uneducated, Touré claimed to be the grandson of Samory, a military leader who resisted French rule at the end of