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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WHAT IS YOUR NAME? It’s true. Every time you meet a Liberian and share a…
I’ve never had to deal with them. I don’t know what they talk about. I…
CAN I SAY SOMETHING? Imagine an airport. Can you think of an airport and feel…
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THE WATERFALL DROPS SPECTACULARLY ONTO THE LAKE and can be observed from two wooden hammocks…
There is someone in the kitchen. It’s a young man of medium height. His name…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
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THE TELEPHONE IN MY BEDROOM RINGS AT HALF PAST SIX IN THE MORNING. Irritated, I place the receiver to my ear, and the receptionist tells me that a driver is waiting for…
The Shadow of the Sun narrates the experiences of the Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski in Africa. Kapuscinski lives in Africa not as a ‘happy tourist’, but rather as a daring reporter who…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
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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…
Now. I walk down the hill of UN Drive towards my house in Mamba Point and I see her. It’s as if the Liberians who are randomly walking around on the street…
