Please check for mistakes! Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: great women of our time Great women of our time: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf A couple of weeks ago I watched Ted talk with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She is a former president of Liberia, she was the first elected female head of state in Africa. If you don't know, Liberia is one of the most poor countries in Africa and in the world in general. On her Ted talk she told how she hired different well-qualified women, so they could help her to make changes in Liberia that it desperately needed. I was so fascinated by her talk, so I started to study what she actually did while she was the president. Wikipedia says that President Sirleaf issued an Executive Order making education free and compulsory for all elementary school aged children. She reduce an external debt from $4,5 billion to about $200 million just for 5 years. That's incredible results! I am not Liberian, so I can't evaluate President Johnson Sirleaf, cause I never lived there. Comments on YouTube are full of angry Liberians, who say that Johnson Sirleaf stole everything in this country. I also saw some news that there were a lot of acts of nepotism during her second term. But I still think that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is one of the great women of our time.