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COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

James de Jongh and Raymond Patterson

The Problem With DEI Is White-Supremacist Perpetration and Perpetuation of Enforced Black Inferiority - Part 7

Oct 9, 2026 | Feature Article

In the stereotypical case of Dr. John Thomas, already alluded to in the previous segment of our series, the intellectual ...

Oct 8, 2026 | Feature Article

The patently degenerate apocryphal fallacy that, somehow, against the sacred rules of common sense and fair play, the or ...

Oct 7, 2026 | Feature Article

As usual, I read Atitso Akpalu rsquo;s characteristically pedestrian and desultory rehashing of the trite, jaded and pat ...

Oct 6, 2026 | Feature Article

It is not clear to any deep-thinking bona fide Ghanaian citizen or resident, precisely what he means when an apparently ...

Oct 6, 2026 | Feature Article

I am almost cocksure that he is blatantly lying through his clinically determined ldquo;Goro rdquo;-stained oversized te ...

Oct 1, 2026 | Feature Article

Oftentimes, the grievances advanced against Affirmative Action (AA) Hires, unlike the stereotypically pedestrian tragic ...

Sep 28, 2026 | Feature Article

Between 1996 and 1997, when this writer was hired, initially, as a Temporary English Composition and Literature Instruct ...

Sep 26, 2026 | Feature Article

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Sep 23, 2026 | Feature Article

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Sep 18, 2026 | Feature Article

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Sep 16, 2026 | Feature Article

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Sep 15, 2026 | Feature Article

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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 ...

Sep 7, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Aug 31, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Aug 30, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Aug 30, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
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.

Trust in Ghana’s Judiciary: Which recent case most influenced your view?

Started: 01-09-2026 | Ends: 30-11-2026