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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THE FOOD TAKES A WHILE TO COME. The food sometimes takes a while to come…
IN GHANA, RELIGIOUS CONCENTRATIONS HAVE A POWERFUL STRONGHOLD. ‘Empowerment’, as the phenomenon is called, is…
I HAVE HAD A FEW DRINKS TOO MANY, and shit, now I forgot what I…
Africa
ONE DAY MORE In LIBERIA (ONE DAY LESS…) I am exhausted as I start to…
Our football team has won and we’re all celebrating at the Red Lion, under the…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides…
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RUN. RUN. When we ran in Monrovia in among the shacks, trampling the earth and the sand, dodging dilapidated huts, I would brush against the zinc ceilings that were caving in. Sometimes…
The Shadow of the Sun narrates the experiences of the Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski in Africa. Kapuscinski lives in Africa not as a ‘happy tourist’, but rather as a daring reporter who…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
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COME, COME IN. WELCOME TO MY HOME ON UN DRIVE. This salmon coloured sofa is what I most like about my lounge, as well as the granite bar in my kitchen that…
What is it that’s so important you have to say? Well, here goes. Friends, readers, comrades and others, it’s time for me to take off the mask! The time has come for…
