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 hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a…
ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading).…
I have often felt that I was going to climb the wall in Liberia. On…
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I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up…
DID CONAKRY EXIST? The time had come to tour the capital city of Guinea Conakry.…
Cooper goes on to express her appreciation for the support and assistance received. Referring to…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that…
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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…
“If you go to Kindia, you know: go up Gangan and go and see my Guinean family”, said Monique, my Belgian friend in Liberia. Despite the fact that Monique had left Guinea…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
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Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil war broke out, a factor that forced her to move to the United States, specifically to Knoxville,…
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…
