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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He always starts talking at about quarter past or half past seven in the middle…
HE RAISES HIS HAND. In the middle of the trial, the man with the gold…
I GENTLY WALK INTO THE MINISTRY OF LAND, MINES AND ENERGY in Liberia, but nobody sees…
Africa
WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT? Jungle? Rainforest? Forest? Wilderness? Luxuriant foliage? There is definitely no…
BUT LOOK WHO’S THERE. As I walk into the Red Lion I spot Ramon sitting…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
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There’s a certain military feel to the air, and people who come and go, smiling all over the place. To be exact, we are in the room that is trying to be…
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…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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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…
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…
