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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AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THE BODY THAT LAY THERE MUST BE THAT WOMAN WHO…
Just as I was leaving the office in Mamba Point, in Liberia, a guy turns…
Now. I walk down the hill of UN Drive towards my house in Mamba Point…
Africa
“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as…
The Shadow of the Sun narrates the experiences of the Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski in…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
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I have often felt that I was going to climb the wall in Liberia. On some occasions I see her. The lady, who every night slightly commits suicide on UN Drive. She…
CONSISTENT WITH THE IDEA THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS who usually have dinner at night, I logically attended the collation at the Korean restaurant at Bushrod Island, Monrovia, in the evening. As you do.…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
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It’s the brakes. A steel voice informs me that something is wrong with the brake fluid. My car is not up to it, or perhaps it’s just melancholic. And since then, I…
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…
