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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Fifteen years after Liberia erupted into chaos while he was vacationing in Great Britain, J. Chris Toe is returning to his native country next week as a government minister.
While Liberia suffered through more than a decade of bloody turmoil, Toe came to the United States and rose to the presidency of Strayer University. He resigned that post after the first woman elected to head an African nation asked him to return to Liberia and help resurrect the country founded almost 200 years ago by transported African slaves.
"I have a home there," Toe said during an interview in his carpeted, third-floor office of a Washington skyscraper. "It has to be repaired. Part of it was destroyed, the roof, and then people pillaged.
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