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 AM WRITING FROM ACCRA, GHANA, AND I CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE THAT I AM FINALLY…
WHY AM I SAYING ON EDGE IF EVERYTHING IS CALM IN LIBERIA? IS EVERYTHING CALM…
I hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a…
Africa
I DON’T REMEMBER VERY WELL WHERE I WAS COMING FROM, but walking on UN Drive…
I KNOW RIGHT FROM THE START THAT JOKERS IS NOT MY KIND OF BAR. The…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
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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…
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…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
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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…
At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in his motley Nissan Sunny, which was attempting to be yellow and I’d make some friendly, open comment.…
