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 have typhus, not today.” “Cool, come and watch the match then.” The first message…
At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in…
“If you go to Kindia, you know: go up Gangan and go and see my…
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I hit the streets once again without an umbrella in Liberia and after taking a…
Just as I was leaving the office in Mamba Point, in Liberia, a guy turns…
Being born black can be very hard, and while there are quite a few nuances,…
The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite…
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ON BRINGING MY HEAD ABOVE THE SURFACE, I DISCOVERED A GIRL WITH DREADLOCKS (the rasta style triumphed on Room Island), a girl in Bob Marley colours, green, yellow, red who slowly sat…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a young teenage boy called Camara Laye. Laye is a Malinké Muslim from Guinea (Guinea-Conakry) who is growing…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
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…
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…
