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…
ON BRINGING MY HEAD ABOVE THE SURFACE, I DISCOVERED A GIRL WITH DREADLOCKS (the rasta…
There’s a certain military feel to the air, and people who come and go, smiling…
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SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. You are walking in the middle of a Liberian road, heading in…
BUT LOOK WHO’S THERE. As I walk into the Red Lion I spot Ramon sitting…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
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I run. I run next to a European girl and a Liberian. I keep up because I usually go jogging a few times a week around UN Drive. The Liberian guy also…
FOR A WHILE NOW I HAVE TRIED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT AFRICAN LITERATURE, a far from simple exploration for a European dominated by the White canon. And now here, in Accra…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
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Sometimes we think ahead and this time, before going to the best beach in Buchanan, we head to the “restaurant” owned by the Lebanese man so he can prepare us some food…
IT’S HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in Gbarnga and we get into the Toyota Land Cruiser. Vroom, vroom. We set off for the compound…
