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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FOR A WHILE NOW I HAVE TRIED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT AFRICAN LITERATURE, a…
Just as I was leaving the office in Mamba Point, in Liberia, a guy turns…
There is someone in the kitchen. It’s a young man of medium height. His name…
Africa
Sometimes we think ahead and this time, before going to the best beach in Buchanan,…
“GUINEA? WHY GUINEA? Why would you complicate your life?” the Lebanese landlord asked me, frowning…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
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These are the hardest days. Those days when you sit in front of the computer and you don’t know what to write about. You can see it, too. A blank, white screen…
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…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
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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…
SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way they all stare at him when he greets me. One’s eyes can reveal a leader’s terrain. Samuel…
