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 KNOW RIGHT FROM THE START THAT JOKERS IS NOT MY KIND OF BAR. The…
This is what expats ask each other: “Where are you from?” “How long have you…
“GUINEA? WHY GUINEA? Why would you complicate your life?” the Lebanese landlord asked me, frowning…
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I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up…
THE TELEPHONE IN MY BEDROOM RINGS AT HALF PAST SIX IN THE MORNING. Irritated, I…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that…
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FEAR IN BLACK AND WHITE. Some people have started leaving the bar, forming a scary, irregular line. “This bar is mine and I want to tell you loud and clear that over…
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…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
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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…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the United States, specifically Elijah Johnson, a man with a lot of character and a bit of a…
