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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ONE DAY MORE In LIBERIA (ONE DAY LESS…) I am exhausted as I start to…
Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with…
AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THE BODY THAT LAY THERE MUST BE THAT WOMAN WHO…
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He always starts talking at about quarter past or half past seven in the middle…
BUT LOOK WHO’S THERE. As I walk into the Red Lion I spot Ramon sitting…
Being born black can be very hard, and while there are quite a few nuances,…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT? Jungle? Rainforest? Forest? Wilderness? Luxuriant foliage? There is definitely no word that can precisely define where I am heading to in Liberia. Countryside could be an option,…
SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. You are walking in the middle of a Liberian road, heading in some direction and a question falls on your head in the form of a guillotine and covered…
Murder in the Cassava Patch is a very good african literature work, and tells the story…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a…
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Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown at any time, until the point that there was an attempted coup by Quiwonkpa, Doe’s former friend…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer and warrior who settled in the fictitious village of Umuofia (Nigeria) at some point between 1860 and…
