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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GOAL. Goooal!!!! That was a goooooal !!! Goooooooal!!! The whole Samuel Doe Stadium erupts. It’s…
Sometimes we think ahead and this time, before going to the best beach in Buchanan,…
Ingrid still had not recovered and she was lying down, her body paralysed into a…
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FEAR IN BLACK AND WHITE. Some people have started leaving the bar, forming a scary,…
Click, click. We have several photos taken with the people at the organisation and with…
Doe’s government had never been stable and had always run the risk of being overthrown…
Regarding the novel’s title, one wonders why beautyful and not beautiful? It seems probable that…
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AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THE BODY THAT LAY THERE MUST BE THAT WOMAN WHO LOVES THE GENERATOR. That woman who usually spends the whole day stuck to the powerful diesel engine…
“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 fact that Monique had left Guinea…
Blue Clay People tells the story of William Powers, a North American aid worker in…
The Beautyful ones are not yet born by Ayi-Kweih-Armah is a novel that tells the story of…
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“I have typhus, not today.” “Cool, come and watch the match then.” The first message is from Jacques, implying we will not be playing our usual game of tennis at the Ocean…
HE SPEAKS CALMLY, KEEPING THE SAME TONE OF VOICE THROUGHOUT. He moves his hands slowly, only half looking at you, steadily interrupting your rushed arguments and shakes his head a couple of…
