I’m Carlos Battaglini and I left everything to become a writer. Here you will find posts about my curious life in Liberia and other African countries. It is also where I immerse myself in the burning light of African literature through brutally honest book reviews. Welcome to your home and thanks for joining me on this adventure.
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IT’S FULL OF PIGS. That’s what we found upon arrival at the next village, Green…
“GUINEA? WHY GUINEA? Why would you complicate your life?” the Lebanese landlord asked me, frowning…
I hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a…
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IT’S HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in…
I can’t help it. I am reading an interesting novel about a violinist who loses…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
Cooper goes on to express her appreciation for the support and assistance received. Referring to…
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At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in his motley Nissan Sunny, which was attempting to be yellow and I’d make some friendly, open comment.…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa of the 1960s came crumbling down. Like many other revolutionary dreams, they wound up in nothing, including…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
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DID CONAKRY EXIST? The time had come to tour the capital city of Guinea Conakry. The city, which on naming it provoked sighs and rolling of the eyes among the people I…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil war broke out, a factor that forced her to move to the United States, specifically to Knoxville,…
