By Isaac Thompson, founding sub-editor I remember that day 40 years ago as if it was yesterday. It was mid-January, 1981, when I walked into the offices of a yet-to-be-launched newspaper at Crown Hill in Monrovia with an application for the position of a reporter. I had worked for a couple of weeklies since 1979, just before the “4/14 blues”, the nickname for the April 14 riots that rocked the relatively sturdy foundations of Liberia’s political and social order and triggered a series of events, including the April 12 military coup a year later, that would culminate in one of the worst civil wars in Africa a decade later.