Leymah is a Kpelle-Liberian feminine name. **Leymah Gbowee (born 1972)** was the **Liberian peace activist** who **organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace** — a coalition of Christian and Muslim women whose nonviolent protest and sex strike helped end the **Second Liberian Civil War (2003)**. **Co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize** with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman.
Subject of the documentary *Pray the Devil Back to Hell* (2008).
Leymah reduces to one — the number of Liberia's Nobel laureate.