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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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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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kweiquartey
Dec 30, 20212 min read
LAST SEEN IN LAPAZ
LAST SEEN IN LAPAZ hit shelves on Feb 7, 2023. Originally, it was slated for June 2022 pub date, but another year of Covid severely...
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kweiquartey
Dec 7, 20212 min read
Understanding Omicron: The New COVID-19 Variant
What is Omicron? On November 24, 2021, scientists in South Africa discovered a new variant of the COVID-19 virus named Omicron...
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kweiquartey
Nov 21, 20215 min read
Make a Difference this Christmas
Whereas in the USA we have the luxury of arguing futilely about whether to ban the masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved, by...
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kweiquartey
Oct 28, 20214 min read
Why there's no Halloween in Africa
Like many celebrations throughout the year, the meaning of Halloween has morphed over the centuries and lost its original meaning. As...
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kweiquartey
Sep 28, 20215 min read
A Tangled Web
My two months in West Africa--Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana--were spent researching for my next Emma Djan novel, LAST SEEN IN LAPAZ (LSIL)....
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kweiquartey
Sep 14, 20219 min read
Travels in Niger--Part 3
Getting oriented On July 13, 2021, I left Nigeria, where the chaos at Lagos Airport had me worried I wouldn't get on the plane,...
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kweiquartey
Aug 28, 202111 min read
Travels in Niger--Part Two
The French In Africa--It's Complicated France in Algeria The French connection to Africa dates back to at least the seventeenth century,...
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kweiquartey
Aug 18, 20211 min read
USA v GHANA
You remember those essay exams where they asked you to compare and contrast two different elements, states, circumstances, phenomena,...
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kweiquartey
Aug 2, 20218 min read
Travels in Niger: Part One
How the West continues to tarnish an African nation The basics The Republic of Niger is named after the Niger River. Bordered by Benin,...
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kweiquartey
Jul 18, 20214 min read
Travels in Nigeria--Part Two
I'm writing this blog in Niger, having left Nigeria. At the moment I'm in Agadez, some six hundred miles from Niamey, the capital, so...
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kweiquartey
Jul 10, 20213 min read
Nigeria: The Good and the Bad--Part One
My next novel, LAST SEEN IN LAPAZ, scheduled for release in June 2022, tackles the very difficult and, quite frankly, heartbreaking...
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kweiquartey
Jun 8, 20214 min read
LET THE TRAVELS BEGIN (AGAIN)
Now fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine, I am once again ready to travel, and this season will be a busy one. Of course, it was...
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kweiquartey
May 8, 20212 min read
In Praise of Multitasking Mothers
Mother's Day is a celebration of our mothers, motherhood, and the maternal bonds that form us from conception really. We have Anna Maria...
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kweiquartey
Mar 31, 20211 min read
Yaa Asantewaa and the War of the Golden Stool
March was International Women's History Month, so on this final day I'm just in time to scrape under the wire to introduce a remarkable...
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kweiquartey
Mar 23, 20214 min read
The Food In My Novels: Part Two
In my last post, we saw some Ghanaian dishes that show up in my novels. But wait, there's more! There was too much to include in one...
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kweiquartey
Mar 3, 20213 min read
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
When I joined Soho Press and wrote my first draft for MURDER AT CAPE THREE POINTS, whenever I mentioned a particular meal indigenous to...
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kweiquartey
Feb 16, 20215 min read
Edgar Allan Poe
THE MISSING AMERICAN (Book photo: Kwei Quartey; background, Enchanted Garden at Edgar Allan Poe by Alfred Wekelo/Shutterstock) On January...
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