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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“BECAUSE IF NOT, I’LL DIE”. Sitting at a round, plastic table. We drink some Club…
What is it that’s so important you have to say? Well, here goes. Friends, readers,…
I have often felt that I was going to climb the wall in Liberia. On…
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SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. You are walking in the middle of a Liberian road, heading in…
“GUINEA? WHY GUINEA? Why would you complicate your life?” the Lebanese landlord asked me, frowning…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
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I hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a mere seven steps, I have to go back in. Under some kind of porch, I wait to…
ON BRINGING MY HEAD ABOVE THE SURFACE, I DISCOVERED A GIRL WITH DREADLOCKS (the rasta style triumphed on Room Island), a girl in Bob Marley colours, green, yellow, red who slowly sat…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
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IN GHANA, RELIGIOUS CONCENTRATIONS HAVE A POWERFUL STRONGHOLD. ‘Empowerment’, as the phenomenon is called, is full of clergymen whose faces are shown on many street walls announcing the next encounter and encouraging…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that some characters are named, but then they are not developed nor do they appear later within the…
