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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This is what expats ask each other: “Where are you from?” “How long have you…
THE GATES WERE CLOSING AT THE POLLING STATION SET UP AT WATERSIDE, BUT WE MANAGED…
As we return to the car, I share with Fred and Alex what Kapuscinski once…
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These are the hardest days. Those days when you sit in front of the computer…
WHAT IS YOUR NAME? It’s true. Every time you meet a Liberian and share a…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world…
Nonetheless, there are also a series of characters that are respectably accomplished. This is the…
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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’ve never had to deal with them. I don’t know what they talk about. I ignore what they like. In meetings, all countries are usually present but them. I have received emails…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that…
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SAMUEL IS THE BOSS. That’s what I realise on the next day from the way they all stare at him when he greets me. One’s eyes can reveal a leader’s terrain. Samuel…
They say that nobody ever saw that Spanish woman who worked for the embassy again. They say that when the war broke out she chose to stay in Monrovia. They say that…
