George Weah, former Liberian international
footballer and still the only African player ever to win the FIFA World Player
of the Year/ Ballon d’Or, was elected President of his country in late December
2017 and sworn in January 2018. This was the nation’s first peaceful transition
of power since 1944.
It continues the pathway to great hopes noting
he succeeded the country’s and continent’s first female president, Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, and years after a combination of two dreadful civil wars that
lasted between 1989 and 2003.
Liberia is special as the first
African nation to gain independence in 1847, and its early presidents since
then were freed African American slaves from US mainland, for many years before
they got their first indigenous leader. All the best for Liberia and its people
as they continue on a promising future in a continent that greatly yearns for
such examples.
