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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It’s the brakes. A steel voice informs me that something is wrong with the brake…
VICTOR, ANESA AND I TAKE UP THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM AT BLACK AND WHITE…
The granite tiles at the Zaventem airport in Brussels are a stranger colour every time…
Africa
I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up…
FOR A WHILE NOW I HAVE TRIED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT AFRICAN LITERATURE, a…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
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Now. I walk down the hill of UN Drive towards my house in Mamba Point and I see her. It’s as if the Liberians who are randomly walking around on the street…
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…
Americanah is the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian girl who decides to leave her country…
Murder in the Cassava Patch is a very good african literature work, and tells the story…
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ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading). Now. That I have just got back from Europe – from the “white world” – I want…
Nonetheless, there are also a series of characters that are respectably accomplished. This is the case of Blaine, Ifem’s smart boyfriend, through whom we sharply assess his drivel and pedantry for an…
