Kwei quartey biography of donald

Add New. Bruce Coffin. Sreejith Panicker. Robert Justice. Dennis Cardiff. George Lichman. Margaret Wilkins. Kwei Quartey Goodreads Author. Fiction , Crime , Mystery. Learn more. To ask Kwei Quartey questions, please sign up. I have been a part time missionary in Accra area for 5 years. Your books are so interesting to me because I have been there.

I am appalled by the wealth of people like H-M when his congregates often don't have money to feed their families. Kwei Quartey Hi, Mary Thanks for your interesting question. In all the years I have written about scenarios in Ghana that are close to the reality, I've never heard …more Hi, Mary Thanks for your interesting question.

In all the years I have written about scenarios in Ghana that are close to the reality, I've never heard back from any party that might have been shown in poor light. The reason is that there isn't a prevalent novel-reading tradition in Ghana and indeed sub-Saharan Africa in general, and as such, the novel carries little if any stature as a conveyance of criticism.

Newspapers, radio, and TV, certainly. Indeed, I have even given my novels to police officials at Ghana's CID as gifts, and have never received any feedback, positive or negative. I'm pretty certain none of them have read any of them! On the one hand it's disappointing, but on the other, it means I can probably go on writing freely about issues without any obstructions from the police or other entities.

The novel I'm writing now, introducing Mabel Safo, PI, is even more critical, going right up to the top. Talk about playing with fire. Write a comment Will there be more Inspector Darko books? Both my parents were university lecturers, and we lived on the campus of the University of Ghana on the outskirts of the city. Did you have the opportunity to visit the States when you were growing up?

The extra perk the university granted my mother in her official status as an "expatriate" was a fully paid trip to the States for her and her children every two years. So we spent many happy summers in New York. Travel was easy because, born to an American mother, my brothers and I were U. Do you think the university environment as you grew up had a lot to do with your interest in writing?

Our house was a treasure trove of books. There were hundreds of books, both Richard Crompton. Richard Crompton has lived and worked in East Africa since He has worked as a producer and journalist for the BBC and other international broadcasters. In Richard won the Daily Telegraph ghost story If you enjoyed: Wife of the Gods. John Le Carre.

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Kwei quartey biography of donald

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