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.

Get Ready For Sleep Well, My Lady–Coming 2021

Sleep Well, My Lady Sleep Well, My Lady (January 2021) In Sleep Well, My Lady, Emma Djan, Private Investigator, returns for another round...

MY TOP TEN GHANA SCENES

My Top Ten Ghana Scenes I have thousands of photos from Ghana, many of them forming backdrops in my novels. Here are some top ten...

LETTER FROM GHANA–1

Letter from Ghana I’ve been in Ghana now for just under a month combining books/family/leisure, although I have to say I’ve had little of...

THE MISSING AMERICAN

The Missing American When American Gordon Tilson joined the Peace Corps in the 1980s, he went to the country of Ghana for his service....

AFRICA’S GREATEST UNSOLVED MURDERS-3

AFRICA’S GREATEST UNSOLVED MURDERS The US has its share of cold cases, unsolved murders, and murder mysteries that have never been...

RELIGION, MARRIAGE, AND MURDER (IN GHANA)

On Tuesday August 29, 2017, my fifth Detective Chief Inspector Darko Dawson novel will go on sale. It’s called DEATH BY HIS GRACE, and...

PLAYTIME IN AFRICA

Every so often, one comes across an extraordinary endeavor that must be talked about and given prominence. This one appears in my...

REALITY BITES IN THE DARK

I wrote about the on-off cycle of electricity in Ghana in my last post. After arriving in Ghana on Jan 6, the lights in my area stayed on...

Travels To The “Dark Country”

The term “Dark Continent” is an antiquated (and to many, offensive) euphemism for Africa that once got veteran NPR broadcaster Jean...