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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Ciata Victor gave up a high-paying tech job, a spacious condo and a first-world life in Maryland to return home to an African capital that barely has electricity or running water. After 26 years of watching from afar as her native Liberia was ravaged by coups and war, Victor says she's home to stay. And she's started a business — running a seven-computer Internet cafe using a generator and a borrowed satellite hookup.
"There's some now who say they will not come to Liberia until Liberia gets running water and electricity. I just wanted peace," Victor said.
As this West African country works to rebuild, moneyed Liberians who spent decades abroad are starting to come home. It's a trickle that the year-old government hopes will swell, supplying investment and a much-needed educated class in a nation where few went to school during 14 years of fighting and instability.
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