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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ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading).…
“BECAUSE IF NOT, I’LL DIE”. Sitting at a round, plastic table. We drink some Club…
Ingrid still had not recovered and she was lying down, her body paralysed into a…
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IT’S FULL OF PIGS. That’s what we found upon arrival at the next village, Green…
Ingrid still had not recovered and she was lying down, her body paralysed into a…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
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CAN I SAY SOMETHING? Imagine an airport. Can you think of an airport and feel what it is? An airport, a kaleidoscopic space, a mental multiplication, a neurological trampoline. And meanwhile, I…
What is it that’s so important you have to say? Well, here goes. Friends, readers, comrades and others, it’s time for me to take off the mask! The time has come for…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that…
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AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THE BODY THAT LAY THERE MUST BE THAT WOMAN WHO LOVES THE GENERATOR. That woman who usually spends the whole day stuck to the powerful diesel engine…
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…
