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kweiquartey
- 2 days ago
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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kweiquartey
- Jan 18
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
LAST SEEN IN LAPAZ--Jacket reveal
Presenting the jacket design for the next Emma Djan Investigation, LAST SEEN IN LAPAZ, to be released in approximately a year....
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kweiquartey
- Dec 8, 2021
- 4 min
O Mi Cron!
November 24, 2021, just one day before Thanksgiving, South African scientists notified the WHO that they had detected a new variant of...
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kweiquartey
- Nov 22, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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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