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…
WHAT IS YOUR NAME? It’s true. Every time you meet a Liberian and share a…
ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading).…
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“BECAUSE IF NOT, I’LL DIE”. Sitting at a round, plastic table. We drink some Club…
THE GATES WERE CLOSING AT THE POLLING STATION SET UP AT WATERSIDE, BUT WE MANAGED…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
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Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with the whole village. Those photos immortalise a great moment. Then we set off to see the cassava…
“BECAUSE IF NOT, I’LL DIE”. Sitting at a round, plastic table. We drink some Club Beers. Our pupils dilate and take on the form of small sugared ovals. That go up and…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
Nonetheless, there are also a series of characters that are respectably accomplished. This is 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…
AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THE BODY THAT LAY THERE MUST BE THAT WOMAN WHO LOVES THE GENERATOR. That woman who usually spends the whole day stuck to the powerful diesel engine…
