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	<title>Kwei's Trip to Ghana</title>
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	<description>After a long absence, Kwei Quartey returned to Ghana for a two-week visit in February 2008. Here are the blogs from his trip</description>
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		<title>On Diasporan Guilt</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	I feel it. To varying degrees we all feel it at some time or another, and in my case, all the time. I call it diasporan guilt. The word &#8220;diasporan&#8221; will light up on any decent spell-check. Consider it hereby coined. Diasporan Guilt is a feeling of remorse, discomfort or conflict over having left one&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite pics</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=18</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	ACCRAFEBRUARY 15, 2008
	These are my favorite photos on my Ghana trip
	Nana (the younger one) &#38; Victoria - two friends Imade
	You sense some of the strain on the face of this street vendor.Like others of his kind, he walks up and down between traffic lanes selling anything from pencils to shampoo.  After 12 hours of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School day</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=15</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	February 13, 2008
	Every morning in Accra, you can see hundreds of children headed to school. They are Ghana&#8217;s future. There&#8217;s something hopeful embodied in these kids with their backpacks.
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		<title>Ghana, place of contrasts</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=16</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	February 14, 2008
	In Ghana, as in many emerging countries, the juxtaposition of old and new, poverty and plenty, can be startling. Here are some photos I took in Ghana representing these kinds of contrasts.
	&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; Transport for the masses &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Accra to the hinterland</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=14</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	February 9, 2008
	With my driver Newton at the controls, we started out early Saturday the 9th to the Eastern and Volta Regions of Ghana. 
	That&#8217;s Newton.
	Many of the scenes in my novel Wife of the Gods take place in Ghana&#8217;s Volta and Eastern regions, so this journey was going to be like tracing the path [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fancy buildings</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=13</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Accra
	February 6, 2008
	There is an impressive number of buildings going up in and around Accra. Ghana now has around a very decent 6.2% real growth rate (2007 est.) The U.S. est. 2007 growth rate was 2.2%, Hong Kong&#8217;s was 8%. Unfortunately Ghana&#8217;s deficit was a whopping 7.8% of GDP in 2006. 
	I snapped pics of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Madina</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	There&#8217;s a throat-clutching scene in Wife of the Gods set in Madina, a teeming suburb of Accra about 8 miles from downtown. I paid Madina a visit on a hot Saturday afternoon. The air was hot and filled with noise and traffic exhaust.The market was teeming.
	I wondered how you could find anything in this literal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=11</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Accra Academy is the secondary school I went to in Ghana. I met many wonderful schoolmates and teachers there. The level of education was high, and the school was well kept up. But over the years, Accra Academy has had some very mixed fortunes, some of them not so good. In general it has not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting down to business</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=10</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	February 5, 2008
	ACCRA
	I&#8217;ve been getting in touch with a few contacts pertinent both to medicine and to my novel, &#8220;Wife of the Gods&#8221;. Fortunately I have made connections with some alumni of my secondary school, Accra Academy. One of them, Dr. Osei (for privacy considerations, some names in this section have been changed) had told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNIVERSITY</title>
		<link>http://whatsnew.kweiquartey.com/?p=8</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	ACCRA
	Off to the University of Ghana Legon campus some 10 miles out or so from central Accra, and after that to Madina, a teeming town bordering Legon and sprawling over the sides. For the two weeks I&#8217;m staying in Ghana, I hired a rental car with a chauffeur (in Ghana you have the option of [...]]]></description>
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