

COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD
What Is So “Disturbing” About This Gospel Truth?
Feb 7, 2025 | Feature ArticleThe very notion that, somehow, it is tantamount to the very height of blasphemy and/or an anathema for any bona fide Gha ...

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.
Should Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) be privatized?
Started: 11-02-2025 | Ends: 11-03-2025