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The day of the election in November 2005, how did it feel? It's like after a long climb up a mountain you can

stand on top and you look around and you see the hills, the valleys, and all the things that represent the

experiences of that long road and you

at the top of the mountain.

It's like you can fly.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, describing the day she became President of Liberia in 2006, and even more, Africa's first elected female head of state.

I'm Lee's Dusset, and this is the final episode of Her Story Made History,

the BBC World Service series exploring how women made history in their own countries.

I've traveled to Liberia to see the woman they call Ma Ellen. Her long road to the

top of that mountain began 67 years earlier, 1938 in her

country's capital Monrovia and from the very beginning a wise old man predicted greatness.

I was lying on my mother's bed, you know, a few days old.

And as I was told the story by her and others.

An old man came, in keeping with the tradition, he came to see the new baby,

and he looked down on the bed where I was lying and he said to my mother, Martha, the name of my

mother, this child would be great. Of course, as we went through my early childhood and then on to that greatness did not come very well and people would then say, oh, you know, old man prophecy.

There's nothing to that.

And then I too, as I became more educated and my perspective on things brought,

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