 They had left the refugee camps for her grandmother's house in Sierra Leone, but it had burned down, leaving them homeless.Most of her family returned to Nigeria after the end of the war in 1970, and rejoined Agwu's father who had left the government service to become a farmer, but Agwu stayed in Freetown, Sierra Leone as a student at the Fourah Bay College Primary School and then at the Annie Walsh Memorial School.In 1980, Agwu returned to Nigeria.