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…
Ingrid still had not recovered and she was lying down, her body paralysed into a…
THE FOOD TAKES A WHILE TO COME. The food sometimes takes a while to come…
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RUN. RUN. When we ran in Monrovia in among the shacks, trampling the earth and…
I GENTLY WALK INTO THE MINISTRY OF LAND, MINES AND ENERGY in Liberia, but nobody sees…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
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These are the hardest days. Those days when you sit in front of the computer and you don’t know what to write about. You can see it, too. A blank, white screen…
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.…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
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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…
“GUINEA? WHY GUINEA? Why would you complicate your life?” the Lebanese landlord asked me, frowning and bringing a hand to his head. “Why don’t you go to Namibia? It’s a wonderful country”.…
