Africa’s first female President and Liberia’s longtime social justice advocate, Madam E
llen Johnson-Sirleaf is--or was--widely expected to leave behind a clean political legacy that would reflect the professed beliefs and convictions for which she is well known and for which she tormented successive past political regimes. And her legacy’s chief indicator should have been expressed in the venerability of her confidantes and devotees, whose outputs and deeds needed to be virtuous and inspiring. But it seems fate has not been in the favor of the “Iron Lady.” Time in, time out, the biggest news from the ranks and files of the Sirleaf Presidency has largely been official scandals--fiscal misdeeds, sexual promiscuity amongst other improprieties--begging the question of, “what manner Ellen’s buddies.” Our Senior Staff Writer leafs through the paradox. 
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