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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He always starts talking at about quarter past or half past seven in the middle…
I run. I run next to a European girl and a Liberian. I keep up…
Now. I walk down the hill of UN Drive towards my house in Mamba Point…
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DID CONAKRY EXIST? The time had come to tour the capital city of Guinea Conakry.…
IT’S HERE. Rick comes to fetch me in the morning at the Hilltop Hotel in…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
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“IT’S IN A STATE, MAN, GREECE IS IN A STATE,” says Frankie, a Liberian, as he noisily walks around his Portuguese friend, Gilberto’s kitchen in his kiwi green, scraggy shirt. “It’s in…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil war broke out, a factor that forced her to move to the United States, specifically to Knoxville,…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
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The meeting will begin at eight o’clock in the morning. That’s what the green paper on my desk says and that’s what I tell Roland, who has driven me here in the…
I GENTLY WALK INTO THE MINISTRY OF LAND, MINES AND ENERGY in Liberia, but nobody sees me. They are all there, but nobody sees me. They are asleep. The secretary, receptionist or whatever…
