ON BRINGING MY HEAD ABOVE THE SURFACE, I DISCOVERED A GIRL WITH DREADLOCKS (the rasta style triumphed on Room Island), a girl in Bob Marley…
Tag: Guinea Conakry
“ON ROOM ISLAND”. CARLOS BATTAGLINI IN GUINEA (5) of (6)
MONIQUE, THE WOMAN WHO HATED (AND LOVED) GUINEA CONAKRY, had allowed another truce with this country on disclosing to me, “if you go to Conakry,…
“CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN OF TRUTH IN KINDIA”. CARLOS BATTAGLINI IN GUINEA (4) of (6)
“If you go to Kindia, you know: go up Gangan and go and see my Guinean family”, said Monique, my Belgian friend in Liberia. Despite…
“THE MILITARY STOPPING PEOPLE IN CONAKRY”. CARLOS BATTAGLINI IN GUINEA (3) of (6)
I COULD BARELY SEE IT. But, according to Samory, the tall, skinny building rising up behind us had been the Presidential Palace. I turned around…
“THE CHINESE WORK, THE FRENCH BLAH, BLAH, BLAH“. CARLOS BATTAGLINI IN GUINEA (2) of (6)
DID CONAKRY EXIST? The time had come to tour the capital city of Guinea Conakry. The city, which on naming it provoked sighs and rolling…
“A TRIP TO THE MOST SINGULAR COUNTRY IN AFRICA”. CARLOS BATTAGLINI IN GUINEA” (1) OF (6)
“GUINEA? WHY GUINEA? Why would you complicate your life?” the Lebanese landlord asked me, frowning and bringing a hand to his head. “Why don’t you…