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AUTHOR: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR.

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dec 3, 2023 | Feature Article

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nov 24, 2023 | Feature Article

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

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 ...

Nov 22, 2023 | Feature Article

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

Nov 20, 2023 | Feature Article

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

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 ...

Nov 18, 2023 | Feature Article

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

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.
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.