A group of courageous and visionary women led by Leymah Gbowee, brought peace back to Liberia after 14 years of civil war, in a time when peace treaties failed to promise anything. It started with prayers delivered by Christian and Muslim women side by side, but their initiative grew in dimension and carried on with local demonstrations and speeches in various important forums, including in front of the President back then, Charles Taylor. For 2 years in a row, these women went through every day with a single thought on their mind: to bring back peace in a ruined and slaughtered country, where people no longer had a full understanding of against who and why they were fighting, where raped women and dead children with weapons in their hands were common.
In 2005, in Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first woman President of Africa.