Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Education Counts: An Inspiring Life

Read the full Diplomatic Dispatches column by Nora Boustany in The Washington Post of Wednesday, May 10, 2006.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala grew up in the Nigerian countryside, and her family lost everything in the Biafra war. But her parents, university educated in Europe, started over. She won scholarships, and eventually attended Harvard and got a PhD at MIT. Working in the World Bank, she was called upon to serve her country, and is now finance minister in Nigeria.

She was honored in April's Vital Voices awards at the Kennedy Center!

The education of her parents as well as her own university education in the United States made such a difference!

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