For a 14-year period ending in 2003, Liberia struggled with a brutal civil war, a crippled economy and not much hope. That was until a women’s movement started to take hold.
Worldfocus special correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson report on a movement that helped to drive a dictator from power and gave women the kind of opportunities they could never have dreamed of.
For more from Lynn Sherr, listen to our online radio show on African women in power.
Watch more videos from this series and read blogs from the field: Liberia’s Long Road Back.
Also watch for PBS Wide Angle’s showing of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” next year.
02/03/2010 :: 10:57:43 AM
Moriken Sheriff Says:
seeing these pictures had made me to share tears for my home Liberia, thinking about how beautiful things used to be in those days, the too much killing had spoiled every memory of the country, knowing the fact that there is nothing romantic about death, Grief is like ocean, its deep and dark and bigger than all of us, and pain of loosing some one is like a thief in the night,so i say to all lost soul,may their soul rest in the bosom of our lord