COLUMNIST: KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR., PHD

Dr. Edward Kofi Omane-Boamah and Mr. Rashid Tanko Computer

NDC Killed the Judges, Not the NPP, Tanko Computer - Part 1

13 hours ago | Feature Article

Contrary to what the Deputy Director of Elections and Information Technology (EIT) for Ghana rsquo;s presently ruling Na ...

President John Dramani Mahama, Late President John Evans Atta-Mills and Mr. Samuel Koku Sitsofe Anyidoho

Walk Like Atta-Woyome? Wallahi!

Aug 25, 2026 | Feature Article

If all that he really wanted to tell Ghanaians on the 14th Commemorative Anniversary of the seismic, the epochal and the ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; and Rama Duwaji-Mamdani (Mrs.)

Mamdani’s Criticism of the NYPD Should Not Be Taken Out of Context

Aug 24, 2026 | Feature Article

If, indeed, it is true that Foggy Bottom or the United States rsquo; Department of State, the equivalent of the Ministry ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa; late Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia; late President Shehu Shagari

African Unity Must Be Based on a Mutuality of Reciprocal Leadership Responsibili...

Aug 21, 2026 | Feature Article

Now, contrary to what Ghana rsquo;s President John ldquo;2014 Brazil World Cup Money Laundering rdquo; Dramani Mahama, ...

Ghana President John Dramani Mahama; South African Political Activist Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma; and South Africa President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

African Unity Must Be Based on a Mutuality of Reciprocal Leadership Responsibili...

Aug 20, 2026 | Feature Article

Until Yours Truly chanced across a news bulletin captioned ldquo;Jacinta Ngobese Fires Back at President Mahama Over Co ...

The Abandoned Barekese Hospital - Part 2

Aug 19, 2026 | Feature Article

There are more than several ways of going about the solution of the criminally abandoned Asante- or Kumasi-Barekese Muni ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor; former President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and President John Dramani Mahama

The Abandoned Barekese Hospital - Part 1

Aug 19, 2026 | Feature Article

The videoclip was dispatched to me via the platform of my Asante-Juaben elder relative by the name of Asonaba Said Kwasi ...

Lupita ONyango, Winnie Mandela, Christopher Nolan and Elon Musk

Winnie Mandela Is No Longer Here With Us; So Let’s Make Do With Lupita O’Nyang...

Aug 18, 2026 | Feature Article

The renowned Hellenic-Classicist Denise McCoskey is smack on target, when the affiliate of Black World Studies at the Un ...

Tucker Carlson, formerly of CNN and the FOX Network; Nicholas Nick Fuentes, the MAGA Right-Wing Fascist Apologist; President Donald John Trump

Is Arabophobia and Anti-Palestinianism More Acceptable than Antisemitism?

Aug 16, 2026 | Feature Article

Not very long ago, when former FOX-News Television Host (or FOX-Television News Host) and Arch-MAGA Propaganda Ideologue ...

Professor Laurence Henry Tribe of Harvard University Law School, US Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Clarence Thomas

How Does Birthright Evisceration Benefit Enslaved African Builders of The United...

Aug 14, 2026 | Feature Article

I knew right off-the-bat, as it were, that the harebrained attempt to revoke the 14th Amendment of the Federal Constitut ...

President Mahama, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, Akufo-Addo and Mr. Boakye Agyarko

The Criminal Past of President Mahama Comes Back to Haunt Him, Big Time! - Part ...

Aug 13, 2026 | Feature Article

I often tell my wife of some 22 years now, Dolly Doris Afua Oye Mensah-Nyanyo, of Abutia-Kloe, in the Volta Region, and ...

President Mahama, Mr. John Abu Jinapor and Dr. Kwabena Donkor

The Criminal Past of President Mahama Comes Back to Haunt Him, Big Time! - Part ...

Aug 12, 2026 | Feature Article

Yes, the metaphorical cat is, finally, smack out of the stinky, raw and dried fermented cocoa-bean sack, as those of us ...

Dr Kwabena Donkor, former Minister of Power, and Asante Kwaku Berko, former TOR and Goldman Sachs Executive

The Criminal Past of President Mahama Comes Back to Haunt Him, Big Time! - Part ...

Aug 11, 2026 | Feature Article

The banner news headline story was captioned as follows: ldquo;Defendant Asante Kwaku Berko Paid More than $1 Million B ...

General Charles Quinton Brown, US Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti and US Secretary of Defense Peter Pete Brian Hegseth

It Would Have Been Infra-Dig for Gen Brown to Have Served Under Hegseth, Trust M...

Aug 10, 2026 | Feature Article

At the time of his widely reported dismissal by the tattoo-graffitied, fascist Norwegian-descended Trumpian- rdquo;misap ...

Minnesotas US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Mayor Nadia Mohamed of St Louis, Minnesota

Mayor Nadia Mohamed Wallops the MAGA Fascist Apostolate

Aug 9, 2026 | Feature Article

Ordinarily, it ought not to have made the banner news headlines, except for the fact of the Somali nationality of the in ...

Is Chairman Asiedu-Nketia Calling for a Return to PNDC Junta Dictatorship?

Aug 8, 2026 | Feature Article

Johnson ldquo;The Mosquito rdquo; Asiedu-Nketia, truth be told, is unarguably the least credible and qualified leader o ...

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before he boards Air Force One for his first flight aboard the Boeing 747-8 that Qatar gifted the United States to use for executive travel, at Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, July 1, 2026. -- AFP

View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 16

Aug 6, 2026 | Feature Article

It is obviously what Sir William Shakespeare, the globally famous and immortalized Bard-of-Avon, UK, would have either c ...

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.