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Kwei Quarty

Kwei Quarty - CAST OF CHARACTERS

Adwoa: female resident of Dunkwa.
Armah, Daniel: retired policeman, Darko Dawson’s mentor.
Asase: officer assisting Darko Dawson.
Bediako, Frank: commander, Ghana Armed Forces Northern Command, Kumasi.
Brave: one of the workers at the Aniamoa dredging site.
Chikata, Philip: inspector, Darko Dawson’s junior partner at CID Accra Central Headquarters.
Dawson, Christine: Darko Dawson’s wife.
Dawson, Darko: detective chief inspector, Criminal Investigations Department in Accra, Ghana.
Dzamesi, Prosper: director-general, Criminal Investigations Department.
Dzigbodi, Gbedema, Kwame, and Kweku: Kudzo Gablah’s fellow mine workers.
Ekaw: Kudzo Gablah’s friend.
Gablah, Kudzo: alluvial mine worker who discovered the dead body.
Gifty: Christine Dawson’s mother; Darko Dawson’s mother-in-law.
Granger, Chuck: American owner of gold mines next to the Lieu site.
Helmsley, Akua: environmental reporter for The Guardian (UK).
Huang, Leonard: Chinese miner/merchant acting as interpreter for Darko Dawson.
Kobby: a constable in Dunkwa.
Kwapong, Phyllis, MD: forensic pathologist.
Lartey, Theophilus: assistant commissioner of police (ACP); Inspector Chikata’s uncle.
Liu, Bao: Chinese illegal alluvial miner and murder victim.
Liu, Lian: Bao’s wife.
Liu, Wei: Bao’s younger brother.
Manu, Deborah: deputy commissioner of police, regional commander, Ghana Police Service, Ashanti Region.
Nkrumah: pathology technician.
Obeng, Augustus: detective sergeant; Darko Dawson’s junior partner at Obuasi Divisional Headquarters.
Okoh, Amos: brother of Yaw Okoh.
Okoh, Yaw: worker in a local mine, murder suspect.
Longdon, Ata: assistant commissioner of police, commander, Obuasi Divisional Headquarters.
Queenie: flirtatious Dunkwa resident, a.k.a. Smoothie.
Sackie: inspector, Dunkwa Police Station supervisor.
Samuels, Joshua: freelance photographer for Akua Helmsley.
Tanbry, Beko: American gold investor.
Thompson, Tommy: director of Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC).

AUTHOR NOTES
• Police jurisdictions: For purposes of the story, the police station at Dunkwa is depicted as being under Kumasi Regional Headquarters in the Ashanti Region. In fact, Dunkwa is in the Central Region on its border with the Ashanti Region. Therefore, its head office is actually at Cape Coast Regional Headquarters.
• Opposite to Europe and the USA, June to August is the coolest season in Ghana due to rainfall during those months.
• Ghanaian languages such as Ga, Twi, Ewe, and Fante are distinct, not “dialects” of each other.”

September 10 - Gold of Our Fathers

Gold of Our Fathers (2016) by Kwei Quartey

AngloGold Ashanti
Kudzo Gablah - Ekaw
Dzigbodi
Kweku
Kwame
Bao Liu - Lian - Wei Liu - Mr Feng

CID Headquarters, Accra
Asst Com Theophilus Lartey
Chief Superintendent Oppong
Insp Philip Chikata

Obuasi Divisional Headquarters, Ashanti Region
Commander Ata Longdon - Mr. Michael
Chief Insp Darko Dawson - Christine, Sly (10), Hosiah (8) - Gifty- Daniel Armah, Mercy
Lance Corporeal Dodu
Det Sgt Augustus Obeng
Deputy Com Police Deborah Manu
Dunkwa-on-Ofin
Insp Sackie
Constable Kobby
Lance Corporal Asante
Kofi’s taxi
Akua Helmsley - Joshua Samuels
Shanglin Gang - galamsey
Ofin Gold Trading Compny - George Danquah - Effua - Leonard Huang
PMMC - Precious Minerals Marketing Company - Tommy Thompson
KATH - Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital - Nkrumah - Dr Prempeh - Dr Phyllis Kwapong
Chief Nana Akrofi
Brave
Mr. Chuck Granger, Explorer Channel, Tropical Gold - Godson
Amos Okoh - Comfort - Yaw Okph - M/M Oooh
Adwoa

Kumasi
Uncle Joe - Gifty’s guesthouse - Haruna - Mr. Nyarko


English - Twi - Fante - Ewe

Dead - Dao Liu - Amos 0koh

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