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We’re searching for a 900-mile-long river system that runs through western Africa. The answer is The Volta River. It’s featured in a new detective novel, ?Wife of the Gods.? Anchor Laura Lynch speaks with the author, Kwei Quartey, who grew up in Ghana.

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