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 can’t help it. I am reading an interesting novel about a violinist who loses…
I GENTLY WALK INTO THE MINISTRY OF LAND, MINES AND ENERGY in Liberia, but nobody sees…
ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading).…
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I DON’T REMEMBER VERY WELL WHERE I WAS COMING FROM, but walking on UN Drive…
“BECAUSE IF NOT, I’LL DIE”. Sitting at a round, plastic table. We drink some Club…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
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THE GATES WERE CLOSING AT THE POLLING STATION SET UP AT WATERSIDE, BUT WE MANAGED TO SKILFULLY FIND OUR WAY IN. It was still light, but the sun was gently setting in…
There is someone in the kitchen. It’s a young man of medium height. His name is Anthony and he moves stealthily. As if he were wearing socks instead of shoes. Anthony opens…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
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Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides to join a naval company that takes him from London to Africa. There he discovers how exotic…
They say that nobody ever saw that Spanish woman who worked for the embassy again. They say that when the war broke out she chose to stay in Monrovia. They say that…
