A review by bcamards
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee

4.0

This is Leymah Gbowee’s unbelievable story of bringing peace to Liberia, which led to the end of the Liberia Civil War (and to her receiving the Nobel Peace Prize). The book clearly and viscerally details the emotions of Leymah’s experience of the war: the terror, the trauma, the hope, the courage, and the strength.

I did find that it was sometimes hard to follow timelines, and the impact of certain actions was lost in the muddiness of chronology and prose.

That being said, it is an unbelievably powerful and important story, and the book quite often left me speechless. Thank you, Leymah Gbowee.