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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It’s the brakes. A steel voice informs me that something is wrong with the brake…
I have often felt that I was going to climb the wall in Liberia. On…
Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with…
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RUN. RUN. When we ran in Monrovia in among the shacks, trampling the earth and…
IN GHANA, RELIGIOUS CONCENTRATIONS HAVE A POWERFUL STRONGHOLD. ‘Empowerment’, as the phenomenon is called, is…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
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IN GHANA, RELIGIOUS CONCENTRATIONS HAVE A POWERFUL STRONGHOLD. ‘Empowerment’, as the phenomenon is called, is full of clergymen whose faces are shown on many street walls announcing the next encounter and encouraging…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil war broke out, a factor that forced her to move to the United States, specifically to Knoxville,…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
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Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the United States, specifically Elijah Johnson, a man with a lot of character and a bit of a…
ON BRINGING MY HEAD ABOVE THE SURFACE, I DISCOVERED A GIRL WITH DREADLOCKS (the rasta style triumphed on Room Island), a girl in Bob Marley colours, green, yellow, red who slowly sat…
