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 HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in…
“NO. IT’S NOT MALARIA,” said Drazen, dripping, “it’s something else. Something cold that gets in…
The granite tiles at the Zaventem airport in Brussels are a stranger colour every time…
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Our football team has won and we’re all celebrating at the Red Lion, under the…
RUN. RUN. When we ran in Monrovia in among the shacks, trampling the earth and…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
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THE FOOD TAKES A WHILE TO COME. The food sometimes takes a while to come in Liberia. So instead of having lunch, we keep making our way into Nimba County and head…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown at any time, until the point that there was an attempted coup by Quiwonkpa, Doe’s former friend…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
This novel also considers how most utopian dreams of liberation in the recently independent Africa…
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MONIQUE, THE WOMAN WHO HATED (AND LOVED) GUINEA CONAKRY, had allowed another truce with this country on disclosing to me, “if you go to Conakry, go to the islands: an authentic oasis”.…
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…
