we hadn’t been living in Liberia for very long, just about six months or so and our semi domesticated wild bush cat ( the nearest thing to a pet cat my mum could find) she’d had kittens to our great delight, her name was Soda, which is Bassa the local language for ‘cat ’ we were very imaginative in our family, thinking back as an adult I can see now that mum was looking for home comforts and we had always had cats, in lac though ( Lac was our village) there were none, things of that size and with meat on them usually get...