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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This is what expats ask each other: “Where are you from?” “How long have you…
CONSISTENT WITH THE IDEA THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS who usually have dinner at night,…
SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. You are walking in the middle of a Liberian road, heading in…
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The granite tiles at the Zaventem airport in Brussels are a stranger colour every time…
Ingrid still had not recovered and she was lying down, her body paralysed into a…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
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I HAVE HAD A FEW DRINKS TOO MANY, and shit, now I forgot what I was going to say. Eeerm, basically with today’s post I intend to talk about those who leave…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that some characters are named, but then they are not developed nor do they appear later within the…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
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ON BRINGING MY HEAD ABOVE THE SURFACE, I DISCOVERED A GIRL WITH DREADLOCKS (the rasta style triumphed on Room Island), a girl in Bob Marley colours, green, yellow, red who slowly sat…
I hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a mere seven steps, I have to go back in. Under some kind of porch, I wait to…
