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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Just as I was leaving the office in Mamba Point, in Liberia, a guy turns…
Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with…
“If you go to Kindia, you know: go up Gangan and go and see my…
Africa
Sometimes we think ahead and this time, before going to the best beach in Buchanan,…
I SLEEP IN GBENEQUELLEH IN A TINY ROOM with no mosquito net, hoping malaria in Liberia…
Going back to Helene Cooper’s life, it became considerably more complicated when the Liberian civil…
Despite a number of negative consequences, Powers also discovers that these same development projects are…
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Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in Liberia back in 1999. Powers lands in the African country as a member of the NGO Catholic…
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…
For those who have lived and worked in Liberia, or for those who are doing…
The narrator’s voice maintains an objective and firm tone throughout, but on page 130, the…
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Now. I walk down the hill of UN Drive towards my house in Mamba Point and I see her. It’s as if the Liberians who are randomly walking around on the street…
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world literature. The story portrays a typical African rural reality (Nigerian in this case), where the relationship between…
