AUTHOR: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR.

Jazmine Hughes Reminds Me of My Younger Self at CCNY – Part 2

Dec 8, 2023 | Feature Article

We shall shortly come to this metaphorical bridge, which has to do with the fact that since the October 7, 2023, globall ...

Jazmine Hughes Reminds Me of My Younger Self at CCNY – Part 1

Dec 7, 2023 | Feature Article

As I recently told a staff member or associate at the New York City Headquarters of the Modern Language Association (MLA ...

Unfortunately, Mr. Showdown’s $800 Million Bribery Claim Has Some Teeth and Logi...

Dec 6, 2023 | Feature Article

Most Ghanaians may be well aware of the fact that making grandiose claims that make him seem like a hero par-excellence, ...

Fatwa-Seeking Captain Hate Would Not Survive in America

Dec 3, 2023 | Feature Article

The widely publicized memorandum or written piece of official communication announcing the suspension of the operational ...

Why Bawumia Must Sideline Kennedy Agyapong

Dec 1, 2023 | Feature Article

In the best of worlds, I would have decided to let the proverbial sleeping dogs take their peaceful and needful rest, no ...

Afenyo-Markin Needs to Hit the Campaign Trail on Real Cause of Energy Crisis

Nov 30, 2023 | Feature Article

I read the brief news report on his smack-on-target contribution to the Parliamentary Debate on the 2024 Budget Presenta ...

Speaker Bagbin’s 2024 Electioneering-Campaign Hoax Royally Exposed

Nov 28, 2023 | Feature Article

I knew right off the bat, as it were, that it was only within a couple of days before Ghana rsquo;s Speaker of Parliamen ...

A NABCO Showdown Will Not Faze Bawumia

Nov 27, 2023 | Feature Article

It is really a ldquo;Shakedown, rdquo; not a ldquo;Showdown, rdquo; if the widely reported to be disgruntled NABCO Tra ...

Can Any Responsible Ghanaian Citizen Really Trust John Mahama?

Nov 26, 2023 | Feature Article

It was rather absurd to hear Mr. Daniel Ohene Agyekum, the Atta-Mills-appointed former Ghana rsquo;s Ambassador to the U ...

Ghanaian Voters Are Much Smarter than Kennedy Agyapong the Shakedown Artist

Nov 24, 2023 | Feature Article

Kennedy ldquo;Akom-Prigozhin rdquo; Ohene Agyapong has spent virtually the past two decades intensely engaged in active ...

A Resonant Success Just the Way It Ought to Be

Nov 23, 2023 | Feature Article

It has taken nearly a quarter century, finally, for the Appeal for Funds geared towards the major renovation of the land ...

Madness and Self-Delusion Equal(s) 24-Hour Economy Policy

Nov 22, 2023 | Feature Article

Somebody once said that in Ghana, these days, when acute political desperation collides with clinical depression and pla ...

The United Party Was Decreed into Existence by Kwame Nkrumah

Nov 20, 2023 | Feature Article

Historically, only two political party establishments qualified to have been designated or described as ldquo;National/ ...

Nana Akufo-Addo Needs to Level Up with the Ghanaian People

Nov 19, 2023 | Feature Article

He may very well be right to assert the fact that President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would probably have made himself rich ...

Poisonous Mahama Must Not Be Allowed Back to Jubilee House

Nov 18, 2023 | Feature Article

It has been more than three years since the epically and catastrophically failed Akufo-Addo-appointed First Independent ...

Yo, Ayisha Modi, Let’s Talk about Your Made-Up Butts and Boobs for a Split-Secon...

Nov 17, 2023 | Feature Article

Ordinarily, Yours Truly would not deign to plunge down the lurid and slimy ghetto gutters where unruly street-girl socia ...

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

Author has 6638 publications published on ModernGhana.com

Born April 8, 1963, in Ghana; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Kwame (an educator) and Dorothy (maiden name, Sintim) Okoampa-Ahoofe; children: Abena Aninwaa, Kwame III. Ethnicity: "African." Education: City College of the City University of New York, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1990; Temple University, M.A., 1993, Ph.D., 1998. Politics: Independent. Religion: "Christian—Ecumenist." Hobbies and other interests: Political philosophy.

CAREER: Ghana National Cultural Center, Kumasi, poet, 1979–84; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, worked as instructor in English; Technical Career Institutes, New York, NY, instructor in English, 1991–94; Indiana State University, Terre Haute, instructor in history, 1994–95; Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, member of English faculty. Participant in World Bank African "Brain-Gain" pilot project.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, National Council of Teachers of English, African Studies Association, Community College Humanities Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Essay award, Nassau Review, 1999.