{"id":448463,"date":"2011-06-27T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/27\/george-weah-earns-college-degree\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T09:22:07","slug":"george-weah-earns-college-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/27\/george-weah-earns-college-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"George Weah Earns College Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"77.7514216084\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.analystliberia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/analyst180.jpg\" alt=\"The Analyst (Monrovia)\" title=\"Visit The Analyst (Monrovia)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>27 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The USA branch of the Congress for Democracy Change (CDC) has announced that the party\u2019s founding patron and 2011 vice presidential candidate, George Manneh Weah, has graduated with honors from the Devry University on June 25, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A CDC-USA Branch release issued in Monrovia said Mr. Weah earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Business management in small business and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmbassador Weah\u2019s\u00a0 achieving a\u00a0 formal college education adds another laurel to an incredibly long list of achievements, which span the gamut from keeping the hopes of the Lone Star alive through personal football successes and organizational leadership during the nation\u2019s darkest days of war, culminating in his winning FIFA\u2019s\u00a0 coveted World Best Player award in 1995; through humanitarian and scholarship assistance to dispossessed and impoverished students and citizens; to organizing a formidable grassroots political movement and winning the first round of presidential balloting in 2005,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>It further quoted an unnamed observer as recounting, \u2018There was a time George Weah was the lone and brightest star from Liberia, when all else was chaos and blood. In the 90\u2019s I watched a video on CNN portraying the macabre bloodletting that had convulsed the country and afterwards, the anchor said \u2018meanwhile, George Weah of Liberia has just one the FIFA World\u2019s best Footballer award\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The release said similar commentaries have regaled the public space in the run up to the graduation as scores of Liberians have arrived in Florida to celebrate with the national Patriot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the impressive array of\u00a0 dignitaries is CDC\u2019s illustrious Standard Bearer, the Harvard educated lawyer and accomplished and respected diplomat, Winston A. Tubman, who leads\u00a0 now wields the mantle to take the grassroots\u00a0 struggle of our battered and marginalized people to the level of electoral success,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The release noted that the gathering and programs in Florida were both a celebration and a retrospective of a wonderful and storied individual whose rise from the slums and ghettos of Gibraltar, Clara Town, to his launch of a major political movement is the stuff of a best selling biography.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife is a both a journey and a promise. All I think about now is the kid who is spending sleepless nights draining water from bedrooms, just as I used to do with my grandmother. What future is there for these kids? Maybe they may not be as talented as I was to break out of poverty.\u00a0 I had to get a college degree to inspire them so that they see school and education as the way out for them. I dedicate this degree to all such suffering children and people just as I dedicate my politics to free them from misery,\u201d Weah reportedly told the Florida gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The release said having acquired a college education and borne the brunt of these excruciating circumstances, the CDC the vice standard bearer aims to use his education, experience, and politics to ensure that the majority of the nation\u2019s children do not undergo his early childhood experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the next several months, he and the Standard Bearer Tubman will crisscross the country to explain the CDC\u2019s vision for building a more prosperous and equal Liberian society.\u00a0 George Weah will share stories of the challenges of his upbringing and will communicate the meaning of his college degree for children who, like him several years ago, faced dire and protracted hunger on a daily basis, depriving them of energy, stamina and motivation to master reading and math skills,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>It said the CDC-USA wished Ambassador Weah a \u201csumptuous celebration and God\u2019s speed in liberating the Liberian people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe his college graduation puts to rest questions of his lack of formal education. Of course, we know there will still be critics and skeptics whose concern has really never been about Weah\u2019s formal educational credentials but about his claim to national leadership. We dismiss these elements as hate-peddlers wallowing in the vortex of venom and having nothing substantive to offer the debate on the advance of Liberia\u2019s socio-economics,\u201d the release quoted the USA branch members as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The release was signed by CDC-USA Branch Secretary General on behalf of the National Executive Committee and members.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"c|main|main|id|0D15FrXtLWGXgWd0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106270346.html\" title=\"George Weah Earns College Degree\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Weah Earns College Degree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 27 June 2011 The USA branch of the Congress for Democracy Change (CDC) has announced that the party\u2019s founding patron and 2011 vice presidential candidate, George Manneh Weah, has graduated with honors from the Devry University on June 25, 2011. 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