Losing your job, quitting school, going broke and moving back home with your mother after living abroad for years would be tough on anyone. It's even tougher when you're a former military dictator who once had the power to execute opponents at will.
Valentine Strasser became the world's youngest head of state when he seized power [in Sierra Leone] in 1992 at the age of 25. But the limelight didn't last - four years later he was ousted in another coup.
I'm basically living off my mother now," Strasser later remarked. "She's been very supportive.