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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CAN I SAY SOMETHING? Imagine an airport. Can you think of an airport and feel…
RUN. RUN. When we ran in Monrovia in among the shacks, trampling the earth and…
IT’S HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in…
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I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up…
WHAT IS YOUR NAME? It’s true. Every time you meet a Liberian and share a…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
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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,…
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…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
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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…
Being born black can be very hard, and while there are quite a few nuances, different levels and social classes within the black world, the difficulty of progressing always seems to be…
