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 AM WRITING FROM ACCRA, GHANA, AND I CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE THAT I AM FINALLY…
I’ve never had to deal with them. I don’t know what they talk about. I…
MONIQUE, THE WOMAN WHO HATED (AND LOVED) GUINEA CONAKRY, had allowed another truce with this…
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CAN I SAY SOMETHING? Imagine an airport. Can you think of an airport and feel…
The Shadow of the Sun narrates the experiences of the Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski in…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
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I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up behind us had been the Presidential Palace. I turned around and for a fleeting moment I managed…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that some characters are named, but then they are not developed nor do they appear later within the…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
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There’s a certain military feel to the air, and people who come and go, smiling all over the place. To be exact, we are in the room that is trying to be…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer and warrior who settled in the fictitious village of Umuofia (Nigeria) at some point between 1860 and…
