Iron Ladies Of Liberia
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Film
- When:
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:00 PM
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- Where:
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602
- How:
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Official Website
- Cost:
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Free
- Submitted by:
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Naomi W.
- What/Why:
- Join us for the Chicago premiere of the acclaimed documentary Iron Ladies of Liberia. The film chronicles the first year in office of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state and gives an insider's account of reclaiming democracy from dictatorship and creating equality out of a history of oppression and misogyny.
After the film, there will be a discussion on gender, democracy, and civil strife in Africa and beyond with Martha Biondi, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University; Lynette Jackson, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and African American Studies the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prexy Nesbitt, speaker and educator on Africa, foreign policy, and racism, will introduce the film and moderate the discussion.
The panelists will connect the events in Liberia to the current electoral crisis in Kenya, as well as the current political campaign in the United States. What are the difficulties inherent in creating and sustaining democracy? What lessons can be learned from the presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf? How does the current electoral crisis in Kenya echo some of the problems that Liberia has successfully resolved?
This program is co-sponsored by The Public Square at the IHC, ITVS, the Chicago Cultural Center, Independent Lens, WTTW Channel 11, and CARE USA.
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