Nobel Peace Prize Prayers

A prayer that started an activist movement and led to a Nobel Peace prize. On today's show, we're featuring Leymah Gbowee, the Nobel Laureate who said she'd pray the devil back to hell. Leymah Gbowee was a Liberian teenager when she was swept into civil war. But in just 15 years she built a network of prayer that saw the ousting of Liberia's dictator. Leymah called the experience - Mighty Be Our Powers. Documentary makers called the movement that overthrew President Charles Taylor: "Pray the Devil Back to Hell". It all meant she would go on to share the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Liberia's new president - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first female head of state.  We went to NYC to meet Leymah and find out how it all happened.   Let's put it in Context.  

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Resources

Pray the Devil Back to Hell 
Documentary  

Guests

Leymah Gbowee
Nobel Peace Prize winner; Author  

Context

Leymah Gbowee was a Liberian teenager when she was swept into civil war. But in just 15 years she built a network of prayer that saw the ousting of Liberia's dictator. Leymah called the experience - Mighty Be Our Powers. Documentary makers called the movement that overthrew President Charles Taylor: "Pray the Devil Back to Hell". It all meant she would go on to share the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Liberia's new president - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first female head of state.  We went to NYC to meet Leymah and find out how it all happened.   Let's put it in Context.