Columnist Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, both of whom were university lecturers. He lives in Pasadena, California where he runs a wound care clinic and is the lead physician at an urgent care center. He is the author of two novels, Wife of the Gods and Children of the Street, with Murder at Cape Three Points due out in 2012. His website is www.kweiquartey.com.
The slaughter in the DRC is intricately linked to electronic components carried by millions of people in the United States and Europe.
As pope, an African could provoke a subtle but important change in global attitudes toward Africa and focus more attention on a rising continent rich with promise and challenges alike.
British objections to how Algeria handled its hostage situation and a recent visit by one of its boy bands to Ghana highlight U.S. and European condescension towards Africa.
One longs for the heyday of ancient Timbuktu, when African scholars pored studiously over learned manuscripts in quiet libraries.
China portrays Africa as a partner in common prosperity, rather than a “doomed continent” requiring aid.
The declared loser in the Ghana presidential election is not going gently into the electoral good night.
Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that a natural disaster could quickly, if temporarily, downgrade a rich country to third-world status.
The United States should take a lesson from Africa in dealing with its AIDS epidemic.
The Second World War’s Eurocentric history must be widened to give sub-Saharan Africans and many other world peoples their due.
Can Ghana make its nascent oil industry work for the 99 percent?
Will Ghana’s new oil industry provoke civil, economic, and environmental conflict?
The price of gasoline is determined by world commodity markets, not President Obama.
Africa’s most populous nation has a unique history of fighting against injustice.
When it comes to attitudes toward gays and lesbians in Africa, donor countries need to conjure up all their skill to walk the tightrope between mindfulness and meddling.
The politics and socioeconomics of chocolate and why it is still a guilty pleasure.
Ghana is the latest focus of oil companies. Can it escape the resource curse?
Three women are sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace.