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COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

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Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in Lieu of Reparations - Part 20

Jul 5, 2026 | Feature Article

Ultimately, one cannot open up the critical question of Post-Slavery and Post-Colonial Reparatory Justice without also w ...

Jul 4, 2026 | Feature Article

I, personally, would have worded Number Ten or the penultimate resolution of CARICOM rsquo;s Reparatory Justice Program ...

Jul 3, 2026 | Feature Article

The more critically that one examines the issue or the question of Reparative/Reparatory Justice, the more the seemingly ...

Jul 2, 2026 | Feature Article

The kind of societally inevitable corruption and geopolitical and cultural distortion that attended the seismic and the ...

Jul 1, 2026 | Feature Article

Number Six of the 10-Point CARICOM Reparatory Program Proposal definitely stands a good chance of being implemented or p ...

Jun 29, 2026 | Feature Article

In the wake of US Federal Court Judge Christopher Cooper rsquo;s bold and unimpeachably righteous order for the prompt r ...

Jun 28, 2026 | Feature Article

It is quite certain that a hopelessly egomaniacal and politically narcissistic President Donald John Trump had absolutel ...

Jun 28, 2026 | Feature Article

A June 14, 2026, New York Times rsquo; report captioned ldquo;Trump at 80: A President lsquo;Really Uncomfortable rsqu ...

Jun 25, 2026 | Feature Article

The two most critical areas of woeful human-resource underdevelopment in the Caribbean Community of Nations (CARICOM) hi ...

Jun 24, 2026 | Feature Article

The CARICOM Reparatory Justice Program/Project (CRJP) significantly recognizes the imperative need for the establishment ...

Jun 23, 2026 | Feature Article

Unarguably, the Third of the 10-Point CARICOM Proposal for Reparatory Compensation for the descendants of the victims of ...

Jun 13, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Jun 11, 2026 | Feature Article

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

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 ...

Jun 9, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Jun 7, 2026 | Feature Article

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

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 ...

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.