Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; A Memoir
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Leymah Gbowee was one of three women to receive the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
As a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeen-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts. Passionate and charismatic, Gbowee was instrumental in galvanizing hundreds, if not thousands of women in Liberia in 2002 to force a peace in the region after twelve years of war. She began organizing Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate together, founding Liberian Mass Action for Peace, launching protests and even a sex strike.
Gbowee’s memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, chronicles the unthinkable violence she’s faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped broker by empowering hundreds of her countrywomen and others around the world to take action and takes listeners along on her continuing journey as she harnesses the power of women to bring her country peace, saves herself, and changes history.
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Leymah Gbowee is one of three women awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. A Liberian peace and women’s rights activist, she is the Africa columnist for the Daily Beast. As war ravaged Liberia, Gbowee organized Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate together, founding Liberian Mass Action for Peace and launching protests and a sex strike. Her part in helping to oust Charles Taylor was featured in the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. She is a single mother of six, including one adopted daughter, and is based in Accra, Ghana, where she is the executive director of the Women, Peace, and Security Network–Africa. She has spoken publicly numerous times on the issue of women in conflict situations and was a panelist at several regional and international conferences. In October 2007, the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government honored her with the Blue Ribbon Peace Award. This annual award is given to individuals and organizations that have made a significant contribution to peace building through innovative strategies that promote women’s leadership in peace processes on the local, national, or international level.
Carol Mithers is a Los Angeles–based book author, feature writer, and collaborator. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, the Village Voice, O, The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, Parenting, Glamour, Self, and Ladies’ Home Journal. Mithers has also appeared on numerous television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Kimberly Scott, a Texas-born actress, earned a post-graduate degree from the Yale School of Drama. Her film credits include The Abyss, Flatliners, Batman Forever, I Am Sam, and more. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and has also appeared in two shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
