I see you and I raise you, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The iron lady, they called her, as she did the impossible in a world and a period where little was expected of African leaders. That's right, she was a leader, born on the 29th of October, 1938 in Monrovia, Liberia. Yes, I know, one might think she probably had to use a gun to take the throne like we were used to but noooo, she was democratically elected. The twenty-fourth president of Liberia and the first female African President ( 2006-2018), and this is way longer than a decade before the US got its first female Vice President. Way to go Sirleaf!!!! She didn't just wear the presidential role like a cool T shirt everyone cannot wait to be clad in, she carried the weight of the crown. While other leaders were collecting debt, Sirleaf successfully negotiated a waiver of the $4.6 billion debt that Liberia owed its international creditors and also increased the national budget from $80 million in 2006 to $672 million in 2012. “Africa now knows what a woman can do”, she once said. Yes, they do Sirleaf, and not just Africa, the whole world now knows what a woman can do!!! It shouldn't surprise one that in 2011 she, together with fellow Liberian, Leymah Gbowee, and Yemen’s Tawakkul Karman, shared the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for their nonviolent fight for the safety of women. Her leadership has known no bounds as she has taken up other roles too; Chair person of Mano river Union, Vice President of Citicorp’s Africa regional office, a founding member of the International Institute for Women in Political Leadership and a recipient of the African Women of Substance Award, to mention but a few. What can I say, even at eighty four, she has not given up on the effort to make Africa better as she is now on a mission to solicit for more money to fight against malaria in Africa. As with wisdom, comes great leadership, I leave you one of her very own quotes, “Be not afraid to denounce injustice, though you may be outnumbered. Be not afraid to seek peace, even if your voice may be small. Be not afraid to demand peace.” And tomorrow, a tale of another great leader, Antonio Marceo Grajales also known as “the bronze Titan”. “ Okay grandma, iron lady is one thing, bronze titan is taking the whole super hero thing too far,” May said. Well I guess you’ll have to wait for Maceo’s story to know why he too, is a hero.