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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IN GHANA, RELIGIOUS CONCENTRATIONS HAVE A POWERFUL STRONGHOLD. ‘Empowerment’, as the phenomenon is called, is…
Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with…
“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as…
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COME, COME IN. WELCOME TO MY HOME ON UN DRIVE. This salmon coloured sofa is…
Just as I was leaving the office in Mamba Point, in Liberia, a guy turns…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
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I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up behind us had been the Presidential Palace. I turned around and for a fleeting moment I managed…
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…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
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Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer and warrior who settled in the fictitious village of Umuofia (Nigeria) at some point between 1860 and…
“GUINEA? WHY GUINEA? Why would you complicate your life?” the Lebanese landlord asked me, frowning and bringing a hand to his head. “Why don’t you go to Namibia? It’s a wonderful country”.…
