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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The word Party encapsulates the meaning of the universe. The idea of a party offers…
FOR A WHILE NOW I HAVE TRIED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT AFRICAN LITERATURE, a…
I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up…
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The Shadow of the Sun narrates the experiences of the Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski in…
The meeting will begin at eight o’clock in the morning. That’s what the green paper…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
Nonetheless, there are also a series of characters that are respectably accomplished. This is the…
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This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa of the 1960s came crumbling down. Like many other revolutionary dreams, they wound up in nothing, including…
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…
Nonetheless, there are also a series of characters that are respectably accomplished. This is the…
Murder in the Cassava Patch is a very good african literature work, and tells the story…
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WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT? Jungle? Rainforest? Forest? Wilderness? Luxuriant foliage? There is definitely no word that can precisely define where I am heading to in Liberia. Countryside could be an option,…
WHAT IS YOUR NAME? It’s true. Every time you meet a Liberian and share a few seconds of your life, maybe a few minutes, they will ask you: “Your name?” “Carlos, my…
