Feb. 13, 2018 — Congratulations to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who retired in January 2018 after 12 years as President of Liberia, for winning the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. It is for this that the award, which pays $5 million, was originally established.
The Prize is a fascinating experiment. Some have criticized the fact that in a majority of years nobody has been found worthy. But I wrote a favorable evaluation in “The Ibrahim Prize for Excellence Among African Leaders,” published in 2014 in the African Policy Journal.