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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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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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Jun 24, 20226 min read
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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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Jun 11, 20226 min read
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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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May 26, 20225 min read
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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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May 17, 20223 min read
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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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Mar 28, 20224 min read
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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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Feb 16, 20224 min read
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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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Jan 18, 20225 min read
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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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Dec 30, 20212 min read
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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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Dec 7, 20212 min read
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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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Nov 21, 20215 min read
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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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Oct 28, 20214 min read
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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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Sep 28, 20215 min read
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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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Sep 14, 20219 min read
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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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Aug 28, 202111 min read
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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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Aug 18, 20211 min read
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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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Aug 2, 20218 min read
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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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Jul 18, 20214 min read
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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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Jul 10, 20213 min read
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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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Jun 8, 20214 min read
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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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May 8, 20212 min read
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