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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HE RAISES HIS HAND. In the middle of the trial, the man with the gold…
WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT? Jungle? Rainforest? Forest? Wilderness? Luxuriant foliage? There is definitely no…
THE FOOD TAKES A WHILE TO COME. The food sometimes takes a while to come…
Africa
ON THE UNSTOPPABLE ROAD TO INSANITY that stems from any mental insistence (please keep reading).…
“BECAUSE IF NOT, I’LL DIE”. Sitting at a round, plastic table. We drink some Club…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in his motley Nissan Sunny, which was attempting to be yellow and I’d make some friendly, open comment.…
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…
Americanah is the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian girl who decides to leave her country…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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Did you know that the sea and air conditioning sound quite alike? When I am lying in my room wavering between the shades of dark and the air conditioning has finally stopped…
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…
