The Making of Africa's first Woman President

A well-written NYT story on Ellen John Sirleaf, Liberia's current president and the first elected woman president in Africa. The story fluctuates between inspiration and despair. I like Ellen as a strong woman but she should not be elected Liberia's president again. She promised to be president for one term only. Now, like other male presidents in Africa, she wants to squeak in a second. Before we know it, it will be a third, and a fourth, and so on, on to who knows how long. My position is not based on whether she has done a good or a poor job during her current tenure. It is simply based on the principle that if a person says they want to run only for one term, they should stick to that. It does not matter how good or even how poor a job they do. The Messiah complex must be uprooted in Africa. We do not need messiahs. We need people who simply make their honest contribution and then quit the scene for others. Period.