COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

Optically Self-Obsessed Malema Is Hopelessly Wrong on This One

Jun 13, 2026 | Feature Article

As a ldquo;Squealer rdquo; avatar of a latter-day ldquo;Animal Farm rdquo; plantation propagandist, South Africa rsquo ...

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 11, 2026 | Feature Article

As already discussed in the previous segment of our series, the idea of ldquo;Repatriation rdquo; of Diaspora/Diasporan ...

Zohran Mamdani - Mayor of New York City, Jessica Tisch - New York City Police Commissioner and Bill de Blasio - Former Mayor of New York City

Mamdani Merely Refused to Endorse Genocidal Zionist Supremacy and Apartheid

Jun 10, 2026 | Feature Article

The recent decision by New York City Mayor, Zohran ldquo;The Shining Star rdquo; Kwame Mamdani, not to partake in the a ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Steve Biko and Frederick Douglass

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 9, 2026 | Feature Article

Regrettably, among the 10 Points of the CARICOM rsquo;s Reparatory Justice Program (CRJP), the least practically realiza ...

Professors W E B DuBois, Walter Rodney and Eric Williams

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 7, 2026 | Feature Article

The very first procedural requirement for the valid process of Reparatory Justice, in the critically and the unimpeachab ...

Donald Trump 45th and 47th U.S. President, Barack Obama 44th U.S. President and Masoud Pezeshkian President of Iran

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 15

Jun 5, 2026 | Feature Article

It has often been studiously observed that citizens who make a mischievous, as well as a self-centered, habit of Gaming ...

Anderson Cooper, Abby Phillip and Cornel West

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 14

Jun 3, 2026 | Feature Article

Cable News Network rsquo;s 10pm (New York Time) flagship or primetime current affairs program titled ldquo;CNN NewsNigh ...

Scott Jennings, American strategist and commentator

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 13

Jun 2, 2026 | Feature Article

In the May 18, 2026 Edition of the Robert Edward ldquo;Ted rdquo; Turner, III,-founded Cable News Network (CNN) 10pm fl ...

Barack Obama 44th U.S. President and Donald Trump 45th and 47th U.S. President

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 12

Jun 1, 2026 | Feature Article

On February 28, when President Donald John Trump and his ldquo;Bad-Ass rdquo; Buddy and Israel rsquo;s Prime Minister B ...

W. E. B. Du Bois: American sociologist and writer, Kwame Nkrumah: Former President of Ghana and Derrick Bell: American lawyer and legal professional

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

May 31, 2026 | Feature Article

Now, what is especially fascinating about the Caribbean Community of Nations rsquo; Proposal for the Reparatory and the ...

Ali Mazrui - Kenyan academic and professor and George Padmore - Journalist and author

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

May 30, 2026 | Feature Article

Another highlight that is unimpeachably emphasized by the authors of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) 10-Point P ...

Generous Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in Lieu of Repa...

May 28, 2026 | Feature Article

While, indeed, it cannot absolutely in any way be gainsaid that during the approximately Four Centuries of the vulgar an ...

Cole Tomas Allen, Leon Panetta - Former United States Secretary of Defense and Pope Leo XIV - Head of the Catholic Church

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 11

May 28, 2026 | Feature Article

In the wake of the widely alleged recent assassination attempt on the life of President Donald John Trump - actually the ...

Donald Trump (45th and 47th U.S. President), Pete Hegseth (United States Secretary of War) and Timothy Naftali (American historian)

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 10

May 27, 2026 | Feature Article

In the wake of the third, presumably, and the most recently alleged assassination attempt on the life of a rhetorically ...

President Trump and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a staff writer from the New York Times

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 9

May 8, 2026 | Feature Article

The single most-damning Achilles Heel of the Donald John Trump-chaperoned US-MAGA Republican Government is the curious f ...

Eric Williams, First Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante ONH GBE PC, First Prime Minister of Jamaica

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

May 6, 2026 | Feature Article

As the perennial struggle for Reparatory or Reparative Justice reaches high dudgeon in its procedural and processional a ...

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 8

May 1, 2026 | Feature Article

In the wake of or, rather, amidst the patently scandalous, inexcusably depraved and unspeakably barbaric gangster-style ...

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD, taught Print Journalism at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City, for more than 20 years. He is also a former Book Review Editor of The New York Amsterdam News.. More He holds Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude) in English, Communications and Africana Studies from The City College of New York of The City University of New York, where he was named a Ford Foundation Undergraduate Fellow and the first recipient of the John J. Reyne Artistic Achievement Award in English Poetry (Creative Writing) in 1988.

The author was part of the "socially revolutionary" team of undergraduate journalists at City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY), who won First-Prize certificates for Best Community Reporting from the Columbia University School of Journalism, for three consecutive years, from 1988 to 1990.

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.