[lbo-talk] Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

[Joseph Wanzala]

in Africa, even former Marxists from the University of Dar Es Salaam school 
such as Uganda's Museveni, Ethiopia's Zenawi, the late Laurent Kabila and 
others, vitually the entire Marxist wing of the ANC, Angola's Dos Santos, as 
well as of course Mugabe, are born again neo-liberals. The only extant 
practicing socialist in Africa is The Seychelles' Albert Rene, whose 
protege, current Presdient James Michel, carries on his legacy.

Liberia is populated by an elite of so-called Amerigo-Liberians (returned 
ex-slaves re-settled by Firestone Co. to oversee the rubber plantations) who 
venerate Uncle Sam and discriminate against indigenous Africans, many of who 
have an inferiority complex with respect to their 'neo-American' brethren. 
Sirleaf is from the Amerigo-Liberian elite.

If it is any indication of where Sirleaf is at, she received Condeleeza Rice 
very warmly at her inauguration, where the chatter was not about Rice's evil 
doings about the place, but her exemplification of 'achievement' for 
mainstream Black-Americans, who elite Liberians see themselves as an 
extension of. Sirleaf also spent mopst of her years in exile as a senior 
World Bank officer.

Joe W.


>From: Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: LBO <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:54:29 -0800
>
>does anyone know what the policy orientation of Liberia's new Prez,
>Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is? She's a Harvard economist, but is she a
>neoliberal?
>
>if so, such bad choices! Johnson-Sirleaf vs. a soccer star. In Iran, a
>fundamentalist nut vs. a neoliberal. Etc.
>--
>Jim Devine
>"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an
>intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin
>
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