Many African Americans are fascinated by Liberia, a small West African country founded 200 years ago by freed slaves from the United States. Some visit the country, while others even move there. But Liberia still bears the scars of the brutal civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s. FRANCE 24's Sophie Lamotte and Sadia Mandjo report.
In 1822, the American Colonization Society financed the purchase of land for some 30,000 people who crossed the Atlantic to resettle on the West African Coast. The city they founded, which became the Liberian capital Monrovia, was named after then US president James Monroe.
