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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“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as…
BUT LOOK WHO’S THERE. As I walk into the Red Lion I spot Ramon sitting…
SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way…
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I’ve never had to deal with them. I don’t know what they talk about. I…
“If you go to Kindia, you know: go up Gangan and go and see my…
Nonetheless, there are also a series of characters that are respectably accomplished. This is the…
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die is a book that consists of ten stories…
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Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are sometimes capable of providing real help and happiness to local communities. William discovers this by delving deeper…
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…
Being born black can be very hard, and while there are quite a few nuances,…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, 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…
IT’S HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in Gbarnga and we get into the Toyota Land Cruiser. Vroom, vroom. We set off for the compound…
