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 run. I run next to a European girl and a Liberian. I keep up…
COME, COME IN. WELCOME TO MY HOME ON UN DRIVE. This salmon coloured sofa is…
I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up…
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HE RAISES HIS HAND. In the middle of the trial, the man with the gold…
Did you know that the sea and air conditioning sound quite alike? When I am…
Being born black can be very hard, and while there are quite a few nuances,…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
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IT’S HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in Gbarnga and we get into the Toyota Land Cruiser. Vroom, vroom. We set off for the compound…
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…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
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“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as he noisily walks around his Portuguese friend, Gilberto’s kitchen in his kiwi green, scraggy shirt. “It’s in…
MONIQUE, THE WOMAN WHO HATED (AND LOVED) GUINEA CONAKRY, had allowed another truce with this country on disclosing to me, “if you go to Conakry, go to the islands: an authentic oasis”.…
