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Hailing from Newark, New Jersey, Kwame Teague is the award winning, critically acclaimed, and Essence #1 bestselling author of the street classic Dutch trilogy. His other novels include The Adventures of Ghetto Sam and the Glory of My Demise, and Thug Politics under the pseudonym Dutch. With a passion for writing, Kwame is hard at work on his next novel. Kwame Teague has been in a North Carolina prison inmate since 1996 when he was convicted of kidnapping and murdering two people in a field outside Goldsboro. The 45-year-old from Newark, N.J., also has been lobbying for the past six years for the North Carolina prison system to recognize humanism as a faith group.