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Makemba 'Kem' Likasu is a fictional character portrayed by Thandiwe Newton in the TV series ER.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Freefall (season 10), they were 31 years old.
They appear in 14 episodes out of a total of 331 aired

Makemba 'Kem' Likasu

by Thandiwe Newton

character

Episodes14

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    Freefall
    episode S10.E8 november 2003
    On Thanksgiving Day, a helicopter crash outside the ER leaves several injured. Alex tries to bring Sam and Luka together.
  • 7.6
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    Makemba
    episode S10.E10 december 2003
    Dr. Carter celebrates Christmas at a clinic in the Congo dealing with low supplies and anti-Americanism, but in the meantime, falling for an AIDS worker named Makemba.
  • 7.5
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    Touch & Go
    episode S10.E11 january 2004
    Carter returns from Africa full of surprises including a new love, Makemba ("Kem"). Pratt accidentally breaks a patient's neck while doing an unsupervised intubation. A whole nursing shift cannot go home until they find one missing Valium.
  • 7.6
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    Get Carter
    episode S10.E13 february 2004
    Dr. Carter's girlfriend makes an impression as she observes ER operations. Dr. Gallant is almost shot during a domestic incident. Dr. Weaver dedicates a center to the memory of Dr. Romano.
  • 7.7
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    Impulse Control
    episode S10.E14 february 2004
    Sam treats an abused, pregnant teen. Dr. Carter introduces African girlfriend Makemba to wintertime. ER chaos shocks a risk-assessment expert. Dr. Pratt and Abby restrain a man who has tuberculosis.
  • 7.7
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    Blood Relations
    episode S10.E15 february 2004
    Carter misses his pregnant girlfriend who has returned to Africa. A family of four is rushed to the emergency room after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from their faulty furnace--forcing the claustrophobic Neela to accompany a newborn baby into an extremely uncomfortable hyperbaric chamber.
  • 7.8
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    Abby Normal
    episode S10.E20 april 2004
    Carter greets the returning Kem, but their meeting with his father, Jack, gets tense after Carter announces plans for his grandmother's estate.
  • 8.4
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    Midnight
    episode S10.E21 may 2004
    Carter takes Kem to the hospital to check on their baby since it's not kicking anymore.
  • 7.8
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    One for the Road
    episode S11.E1 september 2004
    After being shot at, Pratt, Jing-Mei and Elgin are trying to get out of their sinking car. Sam took Alex with her while fleeing from Steve. Kovac is considering going after them. Abby wants to go to bed since tomorrow is her first day as a doctor, but is thwarted by Weaver, whose custody battle might take a dramatic turn. A young drug dealer is brought in with "a foreign object" in her tunnel of life.
  • 7.6
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    Damaged
    episode S11.E2 october 2004
    Neela is still struggling with her decision not to continue becoming a doctor. We discover that Ray is in a band. Kovac and Sam are in love, but where does that leave them?
  • 7.6
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    Twas the Night
    episode S11.E9 december 2004
    Abby has a dialysis patient in critical condition, but she cannot find his physician, who does not want to be bothered during the holidays.
  • 7.4
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    Refusal of Care
    episode S11.E18 april 2005
    A woman on a hunger strike refuses treatment until the INS give her son another deportation hearing. Abby searches for proof when she suspects a patient is the victim of elder abuse.
  • 7.5
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    Carter est Amoureux
    episode S11.E21 may 2005
    After Carter finds out Kem's mother is hospitalized in Paris he decides to go there to tell Kem how he feels about her. Meanwhile, Ray makes a fatal error.
  • 9.2
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    And in the End...
    episode S15.E22 april 2009
    As Carter prepares to open a new facility for the underprivileged, some old friends/colleagues gather. Rachel Greene, Mark Greene's daughter, applies for an internship at County.