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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I hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a…
At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in…
Did you know that the sea and air conditioning sound quite alike? When I am…
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I run. I run next to a European girl and a Liberian. I keep up…
ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading).…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a…
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THE FOOD TAKES A WHILE TO COME. The food sometimes takes a while to come in Liberia. So instead of having lunch, we keep making our way into Nimba County and head…
These are the hardest days. Those days when you sit in front of the computer and you don’t know what to write about. You can see it, too. A blank, white screen…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
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Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown at any time, until the point that there was an attempted coup by Quiwonkpa, Doe’s former friend…
FEAR IN BLACK AND WHITE. Some people have started leaving the bar, forming a scary, irregular line. “This bar is mine and I want to tell you loud and clear that over…
