Mighty Be Our Powers, Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers
Mighty Be Our Powers, Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers
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Mighty Be Our Powers
How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; a Memoir

Author: Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers

Narrator: Kimberly Scott

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2011

Synopsis

As a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeenyearold 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, Gbowees bitterness turned to ragefueled 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 fourteen 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. Gbowees memoir, Mighty Be Their Powers, chronicles the unthinkable violence shes 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda on September 15, 2012

I'm about to cast a very unpopular review, unfortunately there is just no way around it. "Mighty Be Our Powers", was simply unmotivational. I must first give credit to Leymah Gbowee for her personal account of the Liberian war. The atrocities are unimaginable, unfortunately there in lies my issue wi......more

Goodreads review by Clif on April 25, 2012

Lemah Gbowee has come as close as it is humanly possible to staring the devil in his face. She didn't blink, lived to tell about it, and is now the co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. In this memoir she describes her journey from hopelessness to empowerment. It is a story that will touch the......more

Goodreads review by Amy on May 14, 2012

Throw the word "sisterhood" in the title of something and I'm immediately intrigued. That's just how I roll. Oh, and add a segment on NPR and I'm probably really going to be interested in the book. Such was the case with Mighty Be Our Powers. With little knowledge of Liberia or the civil war there,......more

Goodreads review by Patti on April 06, 2012

This is the story of not only how a nation at war was changed but more basically it is the detailed story of the events in one woman's life which led her to that time and place where she could gather with and lead those women who made that change. Leymah gives a very detailed description of the even......more

Goodreads review by Dimitris on December 14, 2017

It was a good read. And a much more informative to the facts of the Liberian war than I expected. Too much violence, too much fucking disgusting reporters interviewing women and if you weren't raped during the war then they weren't interesting in finding out how was your life until the war ended. Lik......more

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