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Kwei Jones Quartey
KWEI JONES QUARTEY | BLOG
Kwei Quartey, MD, blogs about African writing and literature, African mysteries, being a Ghanaian-American writer, travel to Africa and beyond, human rights, politics, popular culture, and medicine.
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Jan 13, 20231 min read
Maverick Radio Journalist Walter Turner Interviews Kwei Quartey
Walter Turner of KPFA has interviewed me after publication of every single book in my Darko Dawson and Emma Djan series. Walter is...
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kweiquartey
Dec 24, 20223 min read
An Ill Wind--LGBTQ+ Rights In Ghana
LGBTQ+ Rights in Ghana Just as in the US, a wave of vitriol is being directed at LGBTQ+ persons in Ghana. The sources of the castigations...
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kweiquartey
Dec 10, 20228 min read
Copy of THE KWEI QUARTEY BOOK CLUB: THE MISSING AMERICAN: Cheat sheet #3
Chapter forty-three After Kafui’s ominous report suggesting that Gordon might have been dumped into the River Volta from the Adome...
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kweiquartey
Dec 5, 20224 min read
THE KWEI QUARTEY BOOK CLUB: THE MISSING AMERICAN: Cheat sheet #2
PART TWO Chapter twenty-three Kafui, who lives in a town called Atimpoku, has a newborn who keeps her and her husband up all night. When...
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kweiquartey
Nov 20, 20229 min read
Kwei Quartey Book Club
November-December read is The Missing American. The club will meet on Google Meets on December 17, 1 PM Pacific. If you are falling...
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kweiquartey
Oct 29, 20224 min read
Halloween--a mixed-up tradition
Like many traditions throughout the year, the meaning of Halloween has morphed over the centuries and lost its original meaning. As most...
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kweiquartey
Oct 11, 20221 min read
8 Shades of Evil
Toxic men and the adjectives they deserve I've concluded that the trouble with the world is the men who have lead it into ruin and...
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kweiquartey
Sep 25, 20221 min read
Understanding Fetal Development: Heartbeat and Beyond
Exploring the complexities of fetal development and the significance of the heartbeat in the broader context of human growth and...
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kweiquartey
Sep 14, 202210 min read
The Body In The Well Beside Me--The final chapter
Percival Sellers led me down rows of musty stacks that made me think of an old library, and then into a relative clearing where he...
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kweiquartey
Aug 23, 20226 min read
The Body In The Well Beside Me--Ep 5
Chapter five After running down five flights of stairs, I exited Happenstance Hospital through a side door that opened onto a parking...
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kweiquartey
Aug 6, 20228 min read
The Body In The Well Beside Me--Ep. 4
Chapter Four After I cracked my head falling into the well, I suffered what the neurosurgeons told me was a subdural hematoma. They had...
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kweiquartey
Jul 20, 20227 min read
The Body In The Well Beside Me--Ep 3
Chapter Three Aaron Muscat Many of the psychiatrists who made up the Happenstance Psychiatry Department would consider their colleague...
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kweiquartey
Jul 11, 20225 min read
Roe, Abortion, And The Assault On Women
America’s chilling retreat to the past The Supreme Court joined in the assault of women In a 5-4 decision on June 24, 2022, the Supreme...
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kweiquartey
Jun 24, 20226 min read
The Body In The Well Beside Me--Ep. 2
Chapter two John cleaned and bandaged my head on the way to Happenstance General Hospital. As John and his partner unloaded me from the...
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kweiquartey
Jun 11, 20226 min read
The Body In The Well Beside Me
A Series by Kwei Quartey One I woke to find myself wet and twisted in the dark. I was shivering, and my head was throbbing. I squinted at...
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kweiquartey
May 26, 20225 min read
12 Lessons in 12 Years of Writing
Writing is always an exercise in getting better. Authors continuously learn from both good and bad experiences, and from their editors...
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kweiquartey
May 17, 20223 min read
I’ve Seen That Movie Before: 10 hackneyed movie tropes
I watch a lot of mystery and thriller movies (I wonder why) and over the years have noticed repeated themes, scenes, and tropes in...
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kweiquartey
Mar 28, 20224 min read
The Victorious KBJ
History in the making The Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) is poised to make history as the first African American woman on the Supreme...
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kweiquartey
Feb 16, 20224 min read
Is China Colonizing Africa?
In 2013, I wrote a column in FPIF called Ghana’s Chinese Gold Rush. I was fascinated and alarmed by the migration of thousands of Chinese...
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kweiquartey
Jan 18, 20225 min read
The World’s Most Deadly Serial Killers--and why I could never be one
In response to a bad joke by a standup comedian who said he could never be a child molester because he didn’t have the money to buy an...
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