COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

Cambridge University Chancellor Christopher Robert Smith aka Lord Smith of Finsbury; Professor Wole Soyinka; Oxford University Professor Emeritus Richard Dawkins

The Problem With DEI Is White-Supremacist Perpetration and Perpetuation of Enforced Black Inferiority - Part 2

Sep 18, 2026 | Feature Article

The assertion, coming in the wake of the apparent suicide death of the British and Ghanaian-descended Cambridge Universi ...

The Problem With DEI Is White-Supremacist Perpetration and Perpetuation of Enfor...

Sep 16, 2026 | Feature Article

The problem of what is presently known as the Official Policy of Diversity, Equity/Equality and Inclusion (DEI) of Acces ...

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Current New York City Mayor Zohran kwame Mamdani

Capitalist Killers Versus the Social Democratic Protectors

Sep 15, 2026 | Feature Article

If my spiritual and ideological nephew, namely, Mayor Zohran ldquo;The Shining Satr rdquo; Kwame(-Atoapoma) Mamdani, is ...

Value-for-Money “Ministry” Reeks of an Akufo-Addo Redivivus

Sep 11, 2026 | Feature Article

I have said it, times without number, that even given two decades at Jubilee House, President John ldquo;Ford Expeditio ...

Scapegoating Kwame Mamdani Cannot Erase the Painful Truth of September Eleventh

Sep 7, 2026 | Feature Article

It is only those cynically fanatic adherents of the self-delusional ideology of ldquo;American Exceptionalism, rdquo; s ...

Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah, President John Dramani Mahama and Dr. Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed

Trust Me, Brother Rashid Tanko, NPP Did Not Kill Omane-Boamah Et Al. - Part 2

Aug 31, 2026 | Feature Article

With the singular exception of the late Chairman Jeremiah ldquo;Jerry rdquo; John Rawlings, subsequently, the twice con ...

Dr. Edward K Omane-Boamah, President John Mahama and Mr. Rashid Tanko-Computer

Trust Me, Brother Rashid Tanko, NPP Did Not Kill Omane-Boamah Et Al. - Part 1

Aug 30, 2026 | Feature Article

The caption of the present article or column was not originally the thematically intended purpose of our present convers ...

City College of New York Political Scientist, Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Hofstra University President, Dr Susan Poser

Who Said This Is a Purely Domestic Jewish “Word Salad” Dispute Underlain by Neo-...

Aug 30, 2026 | Feature Article

What is most especially rankling, unspeakably annoying and deeply irritating about the Himelfarb-Slabodsky Hofstra Unive ...

Professor Jason Arday, of Cambridge University; Hofstra University Professors Santiago Slabodsky and Richard Himelfarb

Who Said This Is a Purely Domestic Jewish “Word Salad” Dispute Underlain by Neo-...

Aug 28, 2026 | Feature Article

The incident that forms the basis of this ldquo;write-up, rdquo; in local Ghanaian speak or parlance, occurred last Nov ...

NDC Killed the Judges, Not the NPP, Tanko Computer - Part 2

Aug 27, 2026 | Feature Article

It is quite fascinating to hear Rashid Tanko Computer, the Deputy Director of Elections and Information Technology (EIT) ...

Dr. Edward Kofi Omane-Boamah and Mr. Rashid Tanko Computer

NDC Killed the Judges, Not the NPP, Tanko Computer - Part 1

Aug 26, 2026 | Feature Article

Contrary to what the Deputy Director of Elections and Information Technology (EIT) for Ghana rsquo;s presently ruling Na ...

President John Dramani Mahama, Late President John Evans Atta-Mills and Mr. Samuel Koku Sitsofe Anyidoho

Walk Like Atta-Woyome? Wallahi!

Aug 25, 2026 | Feature Article

If all that he really wanted to tell Ghanaians on the 14th Commemorative Anniversary of the seismic, the epochal and the ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; and Rama Duwaji-Mamdani (Mrs.)

Mamdani’s Criticism of the NYPD Should Not Be Taken Out of Context

Aug 24, 2026 | Feature Article

If, indeed, it is true that Foggy Bottom or the United States rsquo; Department of State, the equivalent of the Ministry ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa; late Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia; late President Shehu Shagari

African Unity Must Be Based on a Mutuality of Reciprocal Leadership Responsibili...

Aug 21, 2026 | Feature Article

Now, contrary to what Ghana rsquo;s President John ldquo;2014 Brazil World Cup Money Laundering rdquo; Dramani Mahama, ...

Ghana President John Dramani Mahama; South African Political Activist Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma; and South Africa President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

African Unity Must Be Based on a Mutuality of Reciprocal Leadership Responsibili...

Aug 20, 2026 | Feature Article

Until Yours Truly chanced across a news bulletin captioned ldquo;Jacinta Ngobese Fires Back at President Mahama Over Co ...

The Abandoned Barekese Hospital - Part 2

Aug 19, 2026 | Feature Article

There are more than several ways of going about the solution of the criminally abandoned Asante- or Kumasi-Barekese Muni ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor; former President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and President John Dramani Mahama

The Abandoned Barekese Hospital - Part 1

Aug 19, 2026 | Feature Article

The videoclip was dispatched to me via the platform of my Asante-Juaben elder relative by the name of Asonaba Said Kwasi ...

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.

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