http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com After a long absence, Kwei Quartey returned to Ghana for a two-week visit in February 2008. Here are the blogs from his trip Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:48:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=19#comment-328 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:42:03 +0000 http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=19#comment-328 Hi Kwei, Congrats on your new novel, I can't wait to read it. just saw you profile on facebook and wanted to say hello. I moved to Accra from the USA last August and am also a published author from the USA. Now I just launched my own management development and executive coaching firm based in Accra called, Kakrakakra Consulting LLC. I love Ghana, it has made me step out of my skin and to get more intouch with myself and the world around me. African people need so much of everthing that we take for granted living in the states, but they also have things that we don't realize we are missing. So I am gonna do my thing moving forward on this side of the Atlantic. I will be back in the USA for business and vacation later in April and it will be interesting to see how it feels in the age of Obama.... Anyway wishing you the best......and let me know if you are back in Accra. 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I was in a very happy mood the day I came across your work over the internet. I quickly scrolled down the web page and at the bottom posted three congratulatory compliments without reading the report. The look of the whole thing immediately put in my mind that this is one serious person somewhere who in spite of so many daily life influences is still mindful of the Accra Academy. You are a complete and dedicated academician. I was very busy at the time of coming across your report and decided to save the webpage and read it later on the very day---Which I did. I was however expecting the long list of problems the head master made mention of, regardless of that I admit that you have done very well to make such news available. This is good work and I would personally make it available to as many alumni as possible as well as hyperlink the sites address to some other sites. While I was in the Accra Academy I really didn’t partake in active sports, and not for any particularly good reason to, I was therefore very sad and embarrassed with myself when I decided to look into the performance of Accra Academy in the 28th ANNUAL ZONAL AND SUPERZONAL ATHLETICS COMPETITION. I tell you solemnly, if I were still a student in the Accra Academy I would certainly devoted 60% of my time in school to active spots. I think there should be a board somewhere in the school where the students can go to view the schools performance in the zonals and super-zonals games if it is not already in place. I am sure had there been such a thing when I was still in school, I would certainly have contributed successful in a sports------wait a minutes not all excuses are for losers. I friend of mine once said “whenever something goes wrong, apportion blame”. This is just by the way I am not reiterating this statement, please. I must reemphasize that I am impressed with your work particularly because it seems to be the first of its kind I have come across. May be some day I would walk the fine line that you have walked, hopeful by that time, having to report fewer or no problems concerning the school. However I would rather doubt that the assistant head master would recount good stories about me unless of cause he has forgotten that back in school I was if not the only one, one of few students who faced the Disciplinary committee of the school with a serious allegations levelled by a head of department and in the end walking away scot free. ---you see in the end I was right, but it didn’t go down well with the assistant head and I don’t take pride in what happen either. http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=11#comment-4 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:27:25 +0000 http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=11#comment-4 Congratulation, congratulation, congratulations http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=19#comment-3 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:09:50 +0000 http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=19#comment-3 Nice blog Kwei. I know exactly how you feel as I have been to extremely poor places such as Mali, the jungles of Peru, etc. My dream is to go back to places like this on a long-term basis. I also echo your sentiment about that lady in the supermarket as I compare it to people in our Urgent Care who complain about waiting for 15 minutes. They need to go to these places where there are hardly any hospitals or clinics with even a less than 33,000:1 ratio of patients to providers. When I went to Peru, I went to the jungle areas where if they have any emergency, the only means of getting to a nearest hospital is a boat that takes 3 hours long and to a not-so-high quality hospital. And if there is too complicated of a case, they have to fly by plane for at least another hour to the capital city Lima where there are more advanced hospitals. http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=19#comment-2 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:17:46 +0000 http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=19#comment-2 I also attended Accra Aca,I completed in 1980. I now reside in Maryland, US where I graduated with an MBA in Finance from the Delaware State University. I did my Bsc. in accounting at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Every dream is achievable if one sets his mind, soul and heart to accomplishing a set of goals in life. Ghanaians can do better at home but the people need to re-dedicate their minds toward repairing the economy. In this way , we can achieve a common goal of making Ghana a betyter place to live in.