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 DON’T REMEMBER VERY WELL WHERE I WAS COMING FROM, but walking on UN Drive…
Sometimes we think ahead and this time, before going to the best beach in Buchanan,…
“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as…
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“NO. IT’S NOT MALARIA,” said Drazen, dripping, “it’s something else. Something cold that gets in…
I’ve never had to deal with them. I don’t know what they talk about. I…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
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SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. You are walking in the middle of a Liberian road, heading in some direction and a question falls on your head in the form of a guillotine and covered…
Americanah is the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian girl who decides to leave her country for a period of time, to go and study in the United States in search of a…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
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I AM WRITING FROM ACCRA, GHANA, AND I CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE THAT I AM FINALLY HERE. I am writing with bloodshot eyes, with several days’ stubble and pronounced bags under my eyes,…
The granite tiles at the Zaventem airport in Brussels are a stranger colour every time I see them. The marble I slowly discover increasingly adopts an expression that I cannot decipher. I…
