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 HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in…
FOR A WHILE NOW I HAVE TRIED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT AFRICAN LITERATURE, a…
I HAD JUST BEEN TO EUROPE. I HAD JUST BEEN TO SPAIN. I HAD FELT…
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SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. You are walking in the middle of a Liberian road, heading in…
“I have typhus, not today.” “Cool, come and watch the match then.” The first message…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
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The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the narrator surprisingly expresses an opinion about the new, cruel Reverend Smith, saying that he should have known…
Heart of Darkness narrates the story of a sailor named Marlow, who one day decides to join a naval company that takes him from London to Africa. There he discovers how exotic…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
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Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are sometimes capable of providing real help and happiness to local communities. William discovers this by delving deeper…
CAN I SAY SOMETHING? Imagine an airport. Can you think of an airport and feel what it is? An airport, a kaleidoscopic space, a mental multiplication, a neurological trampoline. And meanwhile, I…
