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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They say that nobody ever saw that Spanish woman who worked for the embassy again.…
SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way…
SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. You are walking in the middle of a Liberian road, heading in…
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SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way…
HE RAISES HIS HAND. In the middle of the trial, the man with the gold…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
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Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil war broke out, a factor that forced her to move to the United States, specifically to Knoxville,…
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…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
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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…
FOR A WHILE NOW I HAVE TRIED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT AFRICAN LITERATURE, a far from simple exploration for a European dominated by the White canon. And now here, in Accra…
