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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There’s a certain military feel to the air, and people who come and go, smiling…
Our football team has won and we’re all celebrating at the Red Lion, under the…
At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in…
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Just as I was leaving the office in Mamba Point, in Liberia, a guy turns…
I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up…
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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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…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
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DID CONAKRY EXIST? The time had come to tour the capital city of Guinea Conakry. The city, which on naming it provoked sighs and rolling of the eyes among the people I…
I have often felt that I was going to climb the wall in Liberia. On some occasions I see her. The lady, who every night slightly commits suicide on UN Drive. She…
