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…
He always starts talking at about quarter past or half past seven in the middle…
DID CONAKRY EXIST? The time had come to tour the capital city of Guinea Conakry.…
Africa
I run. I run next to a European girl and a Liberian. I keep up…
I HAD JUST BEEN TO EUROPE. I HAD JUST BEEN TO SPAIN. I HAD FELT…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
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Americanah is the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian girl who decides to leave her country for a period of time, to go and study in the United States in search of a…
THE GATES WERE CLOSING AT THE POLLING STATION SET UP AT WATERSIDE, BUT WE MANAGED TO SKILFULLY FIND OUR WAY IN. It was still light, but the sun was gently setting in…
Another aspect that did not convince me in Heart of Darkness is the fact that…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
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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…
Sometimes we think ahead and this time, before going to the best beach in Buchanan, we head to the “restaurant” owned by the Lebanese man so he can prepare us some food…
