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 HAVE HAD A FEW DRINKS TOO MANY, and shit, now I forgot what I…
I have often felt that I was going to climb the wall in Liberia. On…
ONE DAY MORE In LIBERIA (ONE DAY LESS…) I am exhausted as I start to…
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GOAL. Goooal!!!! That was a goooooal !!! Goooooooal!!! The whole Samuel Doe Stadium erupts. It’s…
RUN. RUN. When we ran in Monrovia in among the shacks, trampling the earth and…
Cooper goes on to express her appreciation for the support and assistance received. Referring to…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
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The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of a railway traffic control clerk in Ghana, who is disenchanted with life and the course of events…
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…
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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“If you go to Kindia, you know: go up Gangan and go and see my Guinean family”, said Monique, my Belgian friend in Liberia. Despite the fact that Monique had left Guinea…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite simply a novel) written by the journalist and diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, Helene Cooper.…
