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kweiquartey
- Nov 22
- 5 min
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
- 4 min
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 29
- 5 min
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 15
- 9 min
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
- 11 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 8 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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 9
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 4 min
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 4
- 3 min
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...