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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I KNOW RIGHT FROM THE START THAT JOKERS IS NOT MY KIND OF BAR. The…
COME, COME IN. WELCOME TO MY HOME ON UN DRIVE. This salmon coloured sofa is…
FEAR IN BLACK AND WHITE. Some people have started leaving the bar, forming a scary,…
Africa
The Shadow of the Sun narrates the experiences of the Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski in…
Did you know that the sea and air conditioning sound quite alike? When I am…
Murder in the Cassava Patch is a very good african literature work, and tells the story…
Helene Cooper tells us that she had ancestors on the colonisation ships coming from the…
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The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite simply a novel) written by the journalist and diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, Helene Cooper.…
Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with the whole village. Those photos immortalise a great moment. Then we set off to see the cassava…
Murder in the Cassava Patch is a very good african literature work, and tells the story…
Things Fall Apart is a novel that narrates the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo farmer…
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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…
He always starts talking at about quarter past or half past seven in the middle of UN Drive. Actually, he doesn’t talk, but rather screams, shouts, and quite often sings. I listen…
