Years after civil war wracked Sierra Leone, one woman returns home to help the nation rebuild and start a "brain gain" revolution.

The first time I left Sierra Leone was on an airplane headed for Ethiopia. It was 1994 and I was 10 years old. Three years later after having returned home to relieve a serious case of home sickness, I was leaving again. Only this time it was on the back of a bus, fleeing my war torn homeland in the dead of night to find a safe haven in neighboring Conakry, Guinea. As I entered refugeedom, I didn't realize back then that ten years later, I would still be in it.