COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

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 ...

Garrett Morgan, inventor of the modern threecolor traffic light ; Marie Van Brittan Brown, coinventor of the home CCTV security camera system ; and Frederick McKinley Jones, creator of the refrigeration system for commercial trucks and vehicles, revolutionizing coldchain transport.

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jul 4, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Dr Kenneth B Clark; Dr Inez Beverly Prosser and Dr Robert Lee Williams

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jul 3, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey and Professor Ali Amin Mazrui

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jul 2, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Carter G. Woodson, James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey and Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

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 ...

Christopher R. Cooper - US Federal Court Judge, Maria Kennedy Shriver and Mike Johnson - Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Name-Changer Gets the Boot from JFK Memorial Center - Part Three

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 ...

Donald Trump (45th and 47th U.S. President), John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President) and James B. Comey (former Director of FBI)

Name-Changer Gets the Boot from JFK Memorial Center - Part Two

Jun 28, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Name-Changer Gets the Boot from JFK Memorial Center - Part One

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 ...

Frantz Omar Fanon was a French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique and Cicely Delphine Williams was a Jamaican physician, most notable for her discovery and research into kwashiorkor.

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 25, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Professor Ayi Kwei Armah, Walter Rodney and Cheikh-Anta-Diop

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 24, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented Students and Youths, in Lieu of ...

Jun 23, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Optically Self-Obsessed Malema Is Hopelessly Wrong on This One

Jun 13, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 11, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Zohran Mamdani - Mayor of New York City, Jessica Tisch - New York City Police Commissioner and Bill de Blasio - Former Mayor of New York City

Mamdani Merely Refused to Endorse Genocidal Zionist Supremacy and Apartheid

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 ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Steve Biko and Frederick Douglass

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 9, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Professors W E B DuBois, Walter Rodney and Eric Williams

Generous Scholarship Opportunities for Talented African Students and Youths, in ...

Jun 7, 2026 | Feature Article

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

Donald Trump 45th and 47th U.S. President, Barack Obama 44th U.S. President and Masoud Pezeshkian President of Iran

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 15

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, 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.