Sierra Leone and Liberia: The prospects for development, peace and prosperity

Sierra Leone and Liberia have many things in common: They are English-speaking neighbors, home to the descendents of freed slaves (Freetown, Monrovia), have had two identical menaces in the forms of Charles Taylor and Foday Sankoh, have recently ended acrimonious civil wars, and have postwar presidents who were once employees of the United Nations. Notwithstanding these striking similarities, the dissimilarities of their presidents is revealed in their inaugural speeches, according to this article from World Press Review.