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COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

What Is So “Disturbing” About This Gospel Truth?

What Is So “Disturbing” About This Gospel Truth?

Feb 7, 2025 | Feature Article

The very notion that, somehow, it is tantamount to the very height of blasphemy and/or an anathema for any bona fide Gha ...

Feb 6, 2025 | Feature Article

Neither the news report announcing his appointment nor the general quality of his political commentaries and, for the mo ...

Feb 5, 2025 | Feature Article

The decision by the Speaker of Ghana rsquo;s 9th Parliament, Mr. Alban SK Bagbin, to immediately suspend the four bipart ...

Feb 3, 2025 | Feature Article

As a personal victim of an enforced culture of tyranny and sycophancy by the erstwhile Agyekum-Kufuor Administration, I ...

Jan 31, 2025 | Feature Article

It is downright infantile and inexcusably simplistic for any key player and operative of the country rsquo;s main opposi ...

Jan 30, 2025 | Feature Article

I did not get the chance to watch the vetting of Defense Minister-Designate Edward Omane-Boamah before the Parliamentary ...

Jan 28, 2025 | Feature Article

As I read the brief news report in which Ghana rsquo;s President John Dramani Mahama called on his fellow Continental Af ...

Jan 28, 2025 | Feature Article

The most memorable picture that I have of the pot-bellied, short and stocky man who is routinely taken to wearing long-s ...

Jan 27, 2025 | Feature Article

If, indeed, there is a funding crisis in the country at the moment, as the newly nonconsecutively reelected President Jo ...

Jan 26, 2025 | Feature Article

Maybe Davis Ansah-Opoku, the main opposition New Patriotic Party rsquo;s Member of Parliament for Okwawu-Mpraeso Constit ...

Jan 25, 2025 | Feature Article

As the legendary Italian-American baseball player Yogi Berra is often quoted whenever the occasion arises, ldquo;It is ...

Jan 24, 2025 | Feature Article

It was the kind of therapeutic and demon-exorcising sermon that a newly, nonconsecutively reelected President Donald Joh ...

Jan 24, 2025 | Feature Article

It was a catastrophic event waiting to happen in the offing. We are, of course, referring to the Sunday, January 19, 202 ...

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.

Should Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) be privatized?

Started: 11-02-2025 | Ends: 11-03-2025