Goodreads asked Kwei Quartey:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kwei Quartey GOLD OF OUR FATHERS is my most recent novel. As you know, it's the 4th in the series set in Ghana and follows the life and career of Chief Inspector Darko Dawson. Via Google Alerts one day, I learned about a violent incident between some Chinese illegal gold miners and Ghanaians in the Ashanti Region. Then I began to read on how multiple tens of thousands of Chinese men (mostly men) had invaded Ghana looking for gold. That said STORY to me, and that's where I began research into it all.

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