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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I AM WRITING FROM ACCRA, GHANA, AND I CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE THAT I AM FINALLY…
IT’S FULL OF PIGS. That’s what we found upon arrival at the next village, Green…
I run. I run next to a European girl and a Liberian. I keep up…
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FEAR IN BLACK AND WHITE. Some people have started leaving the bar, forming a scary,…
There is someone in the kitchen. It’s a young man of medium height. His name…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
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AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THE BODY THAT LAY THERE MUST BE THAT WOMAN WHO LOVES THE GENERATOR. That woman who usually spends the whole day stuck to the powerful diesel engine…
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…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
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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…
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…
