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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These are the hardest days. Those days when you sit in front of the computer…
HE SPEAKS CALMLY, KEEPING THE SAME TONE OF VOICE THROUGHOUT. He moves his hands slowly,…
This is what expats ask each other: “Where are you from?” “How long have you…
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Ingrid still had not recovered and she was lying down, her body paralysed into a…
“THE SWEDES ARE WAITING FOR YOU IN THE PARKING LOT,” said an early morning voice…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
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Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories on different subjects of everyday African and Liberian reality, many of which can be extrapolated to the…
THE WATERFALL DROPS SPECTACULARLY ONTO THE LAKE and can be observed from two wooden hammocks that almost enter the water as if they were airbeds. This is undoubtedly a privileged enclave, where…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
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Did you know that the sea and air conditioning sound quite alike? When I am lying in my room wavering between the shades of dark and the air conditioning has finally stopped…
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…
