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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WHY AM I SAYING ON EDGE IF EVERYTHING IS CALM IN LIBERIA? IS EVERYTHING CALM…
ON BRINGING MY HEAD ABOVE THE SURFACE, I DISCOVERED A GIRL WITH DREADLOCKS (the rasta…
SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way…
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At first we did not talk. Never ever. Not even whenever I’d set foot in…
I HAVE HAD A FEW DRINKS TOO MANY, and shit, now I forgot what I…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a…
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Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that this has been a slip in the English spelling, which is not uncommon in Africa. In fact,…
I HAD JUST BEEN TO EUROPE. I HAD JUST BEEN TO SPAIN. I HAD FELT THE HEAT. I had felt the heat. I had felt the cold. Loads of iPhones, brother. Is…
The African Child is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather an autobiography of a…
Murder in the Cassava Patch is a very good african literature work, and tells the story…
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COME, COME IN. WELCOME TO MY HOME ON UN DRIVE. This salmon coloured sofa is what I most like about my lounge, as well as the granite bar in my kitchen that…
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,…
