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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“BECAUSE IF NOT, I’LL DIE”. Sitting at a round, plastic table. We drink some Club…
SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way…
He always starts talking at about quarter past or half past seven in the middle…
Africa
“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as…
I can’t help it. I am reading an interesting novel about a violinist who loses…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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There is someone in the kitchen. It’s a young man of medium height. His name is Anthony and he moves stealthily. As if he were wearing socks instead of shoes. Anthony opens…
HE RAISES HIS HAND. In the middle of the trial, the man with the gold earring raises his hand and asks for permission to go to the bathroom for a minute. The…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
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Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides to join a naval company that takes him from London to Africa. There he discovers how exotic…
ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading). Now. That I have just got back from Europe – from the “white world” – I want…
