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kweiquartey
- Jan 17
- 2 min
What Causes Toxic Masculinity?
What is toxic masculinity? Definitions: Masculine toxicity is a set of cultural and societal norms of masculinity that emphasize physical...
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kweiquartey
- Jan 13
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
THE FETUS AS A PERSON--Why the fetal heartbeat at 6 weeks is misguided
The fetus as a person: the political hot potato Powered by the momentum of the Dobbs decision and the Roe v. Wade reversal, anti-choice...
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kweiquartey
- Sep 14, 2022
- 10 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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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