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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The granite tiles at the Zaventem airport in Brussels are a stranger colour every time…
I’ve never had to deal with them. I don’t know what they talk about. I…
It’s the brakes. A steel voice informs me that something is wrong with the brake…
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BUT LOOK WHO’S THERE. As I walk into the Red Lion I spot Ramon sitting…
At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that…
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ONE DAY MORE In LIBERIA (ONE DAY LESS…) I am exhausted as I start to write. It’s been a hard day again and the last thing I fancy doing is tapping away…
As we return to the car, I share with Fred and Alex what Kapuscinski once wrote about Liberia in his masterpiece, The Shadow of the Sun. How he’d be decapitated if he…
Americanah is the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian girl who decides to leave her country…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
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Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that this has been a slip in the English spelling, which is not uncommon in Africa. In fact,…
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.…
