{"id":9611,"date":"2012-04-26T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9611"},"modified":"2012-04-26T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:05:36","slug":"joyce-bnada-to-visit-to-liberias-ellen-johnson-sirleaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/26\/joyce-bnada-to-visit-to-liberias-ellen-johnson-sirleaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Banda to visit to Liberia’s Ellen Johnson -Sirleaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malawi\u2019s President Joyce Banda is expected to pay a two-day working visit to President Ellen Johnson -Sirleaf here on Saturday and Sunday April 28-29, the Executive Mansion announced Monday.<\/p>\n

Though details of her trip have not been made known, President Sirleaf upon the inauguration of Banda expressed optimism about women\u2019s role on the continent during a BBC interview.<\/p>\n

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President Joyce Banda to visit Liberia <\/p><\/div>\n

Joyce Banda, who has made history becoming Malawi\u2019s first female president and only the second woman to lead a country in Africa, has a track record of fighting for women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

She took power over the weekend following the death of 78-year-old President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in office after heading up the southern Africa country since 2004.<\/p>\n

Mr Mutharika\u2019s decision to appoint her as his running mate for the 2009 elections surprised many in Malawi\u2019s mainly conservative, male-dominated society \u2013 which had never before had a female vice-president.<\/p>\n

Equally surprising was her decision to publicly stand up to her boss \u2013 by refusing to endorse his plans for his brother, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mutharika, to succeed him as president in 2014 when he was due to retire.<\/p>\n

She was promptly thrown out of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party \u2013 and subjected to daily doses of derision at public rallies and on Malawi\u2019s state airwaves.<\/p>\n

A senior ruling party official openly said Malawi was \u201cnot ready for a female president\u201d, while First Lady Callista Mutharika said Mrs Banda was fooling herself that she was a serious politician \u2013 saying she was a mere market woman selling fritters.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will never be president, how can a mandasi [fritter] seller be president?\u201d Mrs Mutharika said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malawi\u2019s President Joyce Banda is expected to pay a two-day working visit to President Ellen Johnson -Sirleaf here on Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[2040,1689,466,1682,258,1684,1685,299],"class_list":["post-9611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-ellen-johnson-sirleaf","tag-governance","tag-joyce-banda","tag-liberia","tag-malawi","tag-southern-africa","tag-west-africa","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}