Videos of a three-year-old girl braiding the hair of people in her community have surfaced on social media The young girl, identities as Lordina from Kumasi-Abuakwa in the Ashanti Region ...

Novelist Kwei Quartey navigates this predicament deftly in “Last Seen in Lapaz,” which takes the author’s Ghanaian private investigator into the unsettling world of sex trafficking.

In Dr. Kwei Quartey's debut novel, Wife of the Gods: An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery, Inspector Darko Dawson leaves the bustling Ghanaian capital city of Accra to investigate the murder of a ...

The stench of that water puts off Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, the protagonist of writer Kwei Quartey's murder mysteries set in Ghana. In 2011's Children of the Street, Quartey's second ...

Kwei Quartey has been doing that for years with his superior series about Chief Inspector Darko Dawson set in Ghana, where the author was born to a Black American mother and a Ghanian father.

Quartey’s mastery of the art of misdirection serves him well in his third mystery featuring Accra, Ghana, homicide detective Darko Dawson (after 2011’s Children of the Street). At dawn one ...