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 WATERFALL DROPS SPECTACULARLY ONTO THE LAKE and can be observed from two wooden hammocks…
Just as I was leaving the office in Mamba Point, in Liberia, a guy turns…
“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as…
Africa
They say that nobody ever saw that Spanish woman who worked for the embassy again.…
Sometimes we think ahead and this time, before going to the best beach in Buchanan,…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
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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.…
I SLEEP IN GBENEQUELLEH IN A TINY ROOM with no mosquito net, hoping malaria in Liberia doesn’t recognise me. Deep into the night, an overwhelming silence alternates with the roar of generators. I…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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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…
I hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a mere seven steps, I have to go back in. Under some kind of porch, I wait to…
