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COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

President John Dramani Mahama; African Union Logo; and  President Vladimir V Putin

Beyond Leadership Incapacity and GIHOC Collapse by Rawlings and the P/NDC Governments

13 hours ago | Feature Article

I read Mustapha Bature Sallama rsquo;s quite interesting news feature with quaint humor closely verging on decided conte ...

Nov 9, 2026 | Feature Article

I did not see or watch the globally renowned CBS-News rsquo; current affairs television magazine program titled ldquo;6 ...

Nov 6, 2026 | Feature Article

Whichever way one looks at the wholesale and the blanket imposition of tariffs on imported goods and commodities by Pres ...

Nov 5, 2026 | Feature Article

Contrary to what the General-Secretary of Ghana rsquo;s presently main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Justin ...

Nov 4, 2026 | Feature Article

As an institutional establishment, the New York Post is not remarkably known for vigorously advocating for the safety an ...

Nov 3, 2026 | Feature Article

It is an interesting but a rather uncircumspect and self-assuredly ethnoracially narcissistic take, by way of a sarcasti ...

Nov 2, 2026 | Feature Article

It was all to be expected that Mayor Zohran ldquo;The Shining Star rdquo; Kwame Mamdani would promptly step up to the p ...

Nov 1, 2026 | Feature Article

I read the news story of Sekou Nkrumah rsquo;s quite interesting, fascinating and insightful appreciation and analysis o ...

Oct 31, 2026 | Feature Article

The sheer and the patently pedestrian pretense that, somehow, more than a quarter-century later, some new and morally ed ...

Oct 31, 2026 | Feature Article

What this author has decided to term as the ldquo;OJ Simpson Funk, rdquo; or ldquo;The Funk of the OJ Simpson rsquo;s ...

Oct 29, 2026 | Feature Article

It is scandalously obvious that Mr. Atitso Akpalu knows infinitesimally little to absolutely nothing about the history o ...

Oct 28, 2026 | Feature Article

The Jason Arday Affair does not pass muster when squarely and wholly predicated on the critical subject of academic comp ...

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 ...

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