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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There is someone in the kitchen. It’s a young man of medium height. His name…
I can’t help it. I am reading an interesting novel about a violinist who loses…
RUN. RUN. When we ran in Monrovia in among the shacks, trampling the earth and…
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“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as…
I AM WRITING FROM ACCRA, GHANA, AND I CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE THAT I AM FINALLY…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
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The meeting will begin at eight o’clock in the morning. That’s what the green paper on my desk says and that’s what I tell Roland, who has driven me here in the…
He always starts talking at about quarter past or half past seven in the middle of UN Drive. Actually, he doesn’t talk, but rather screams, shouts, and quite often sings. I listen…
Americanah is the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian girl who decides to leave her country…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite simply a novel) written by the journalist and diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, Helene Cooper.…
Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with the whole village. Those photos immortalise a great moment. Then we set off to see the cassava…
