Professor, once again I'm at a loss to decipher what it is you want to address.
One thing though, that pervades your writing is an effort to lump all NDC folks with Macbeth Rawelings, but you never associate your Dankwa folk ... read full comment
Professor, once again I'm at a loss to decipher what it is you want to address.
One thing though, that pervades your writing is an effort to lump all NDC folks with Macbeth Rawelings, but you never associate your Dankwa folks with the bomb-throwers of the 60's; both perpetrated evil. I don't know if you yourself vote in the US where you live at. If you did, and voted for either Democrats or Republicans, you would have voted for a party with racist history: though Lincoln the Republican emancipated slaves in the face of the opposing gauntlet thrown in the dust by Democrats, Democrats elected the first Black American president while Republicans use code words to instigate white backlash.
If you did vote one way or other, does that necessarily make you a bed-fellow of racism. You, professor, must still learn to judge individuals on their own merit. It's not all Ewes or Asantes, nor all Akyems or all Dagombas. But it is all individual "shit bombers" and bomb throwers that must be condemned
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 9 years ago
Well said Nero, but the risible side of it all is Okoampa's selective fallacy of comparing a revolution by JJ RAWLINGS to a terrorist act recently in France which occurred in the premises of the Satirical Magazine of Charlie ... read full comment
Well said Nero, but the risible side of it all is Okoampa's selective fallacy of comparing a revolution by JJ RAWLINGS to a terrorist act recently in France which occurred in the premises of the Satirical Magazine of Charlie Hebdo.
And in Addition, this author's crystal clear lack of knowledge of the FRENCH revolution from which their modern system was built is similar to that of Ghana. Even the French one was more brutal and was to the extent that Popular Philosopher, JJ ROUSEAU, made the comment 'MAN IS BORN FREE BUT IN CHAINS EVERYWHERE'.
The Ghana Revolution whether you like it or not was the basis for the forth Republic. And has come to stay, what a GREAT FEAT?
Esi Brooke 9 years ago
This confused Ahoofe chap again,
I am baaaaaaaaaaack!
Who told CMB was Danquah's seminal idea? Even Nkrumah whose government radically transformed the regulatory structure CMB and made it more efficient never claimed any ... read full comment
This confused Ahoofe chap again,
I am baaaaaaaaaaack!
Who told CMB was Danquah's seminal idea? Even Nkrumah whose government radically transformed the regulatory structure CMB and made it more efficient never claimed any credit. Like I told you before, the 1951 Amendment Ordinance changed everything.
Therefore the CMB you see today owes more to Tetteh Quarshie (and Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah) than to your village champion, Dr. JB Danquah. Give that credit to Tetteh Quarshie! Quarshie and Nkrumah made it all possible. You see how childishly shallow your grossly dislocated thinking is?
If JB Danquah did so much for Ghana's economy through his affiliation with cocoa, what should you then say of Tetteh Quarshie who actually brought samples of cocoa seeds to the Gold Coast? Now, it is clear you are stealing the credit that should have rightly gone to Tetteh Quarshie to Danquah who had nothing to do with cocoa coming to the Gold Coast! This is one of the egregious errors you make in your shallow writings.
Next, my contacts at the New York Times have confirmed for me, revealing to me just today that the article which the Nassau Community College helped you publish in the New York Times is "When Human Dignity is Besieged: An Afrocentric Critique of the Diary of Anne Frank," a piece published in the "letters to the editor" column of the New York Times.
I gave my contacts your name and asked them to give me some information on anything you have written which may have appeared in the New York Times at any time, and they came up with only one. Thank Nassau Community College. You did not fare well in other notable places (zero, zero, zero, and zero). That is a topic for another day, when the Danquah Institute, NPP New York, and NPP Ghana re-admit you!
This section of the New York Times have seen published works from the general public, high school kids, professors, college students, members of the clergy, activists, writers, that is, ordinary citizens (and others from abroad). Nothing extraordinary if you ask me. Remember also that Nassau Review, a name you no longer use for whatever reason, has had some relationship with the New York Times and the folks there assisted you. I have long been in New York when you published this little article.
I have contacts at the Nassau Community College and Nassau Review. I am in the know of most of the happenings there. I am still surprised at your hypocrisy when you turn around to dissociate yourself from the theory of Afrocentricity, yet appropriate the same theory to analyze the diary content of Anne Frank, a casualty of the Holocaust, giving you instant fame in the process, a nine days' wonder of fame if you like! Let me remind you, an essay or article can come in the form letters.
Last but not least, Mr. Hypocrite, you have not told us anything about your Columbia-educated nuclear physicist, bearing in mind that being trained as a nuclear physicist does not make one intelligent, great, or smart. Yes, your sibling went to Columbia, but where did you have your education? And what has my conversation with you got to do with Columbia University and your sibling?
Are you your sibling’s nuclear physics? Has he invented a cure for cancer that your family is keeping from the world? Has he invented solar energy blueprint to solve the energy problems of the world? Has he developed nuclear energy plant yet? Is he or she a theoretical or applied nuclear physicist? Is he a member of CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) and/or ICPT (The International Center for Theoretical Physics)? Has he won a Nobel Prize in Physics? What have been his major contributions to rectifying your mental dislocation?
Why don’t you ask him or her to discuss his inventions on Ghanaweb? Haven’t you told your sibling you write for Ghanaweb? A nuclear physicist can be an average person in terms of IQ or academic performance. I can also assure that you do not have to be a genius to be a nuclear physicist, if you care to know.
You Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe could easily have become a nuclear physicist if you had put in a little effort! Have heard the name Dr. John Michael Finn (he is late), a well-known nuclear physicist and one of my former professors in the late 1980s (at Virginia’s College of William & Mary), also a poet? Have you seen his excellent collection of poems and short stories, “The Butterfly Girl” and “Flashback: A Journey in Time”? See how a nuclear physicist is associated with powerful poetry and prose. In fact go and read him! I wish I could tell the world Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe is a poet-turned nuclear physicist! How do you like it, Mr. Hypocrite?
You need to know that there are nuclear physicists walking around in Ghana and our own New York doing practically nothing, let alone contributing to society. Some nuclear physicists are also ordinary workers in radiology departments in hospitals doing what a regular community college-trained radiology technologist does. Therefore, you may want to tell us more about your sibling, his cutting-edge inventions, publications and names of peer-reviewed journals, etc.
Attending any of the Ivy Leagues does not mean you smart either. George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard; sometimes it is power and money that take people to top universities, not brains. In other words, the ability to pay matters a lot in most of these American universities. Let us ask this simple question: How does your sibling's achievements compare with the late Dr. Menes Atipin Ohene Owusu-Afriyie’s, a former reviewer for the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and a Principal investigator for the US FDA (phase 2 trials in the USA), and the mathematical physicist Dr. Francis Allotey?
Finally, you did not address my question regarding Skip Gates and Appiah! Don't run away from them. Also answer the question about Soyinka and Achebe! Have you found out yet whether Adolf Hitler (and Idi Amin) had not been cited in the Vanderbilt Law Review? Call the editors and confirm it! And who cares if you are post-Nkrumah? NPP Ghana sacked you. NPP New York sacked you.
The Danquah Institute sacked you. All these three organizations have never seen you as intelligent, so what makes you think your being post-Nkrumah should be anybody's headache? They all see you as a liability and unintelligent! On the contrary, haven't it crossed your sleeping mind there is a great possibility these organizations might take you back once you have told the world you are past post-Nkrumah?
There is a great danger there however. Being past post-Nkrumah is a debilitating symptom of intellectual shallowness, don't you think? In any case are you pre-Danquah?
You can shoot me an email Esibrooke23@ymail.com. Can we date, Mr. Shallow Hypocrite? I just want to be sure if you are straight because your attitude doesn't look like you are. Stop insulting ladies!
Have a good day.
Baffour Agyemang 9 years ago
What a wash.
What a wash.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago
Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe should come off the fallacy associated with either a global acceptance or interpretation of freedom of speech and put speech freedom in its proper perspective, context and cultural requirement.
Ameri ... read full comment
Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe should come off the fallacy associated with either a global acceptance or interpretation of freedom of speech and put speech freedom in its proper perspective, context and cultural requirement.
America celebrates its freedom of speech but curtails that very freedom if false and can lead to chaos and or mass panic and hysteria as would be the case in public places like a crowded movie theater. This should give pause to wing nuts that throw freedom of speech rights around like it is universal; it may have limitations based on culture and community. Why would those freedoms not extend to what people do or say do without societal moral standards?
The educated Ghanaians and ex-Ghanaians in the Diaspora tend to advocate a copy and paste ideology that is beneath reasonable intellectual exercises or reasonable thought processes.
DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago
Your responses always present a deep-seated stupidity akin to this cocaine infested orangutan himself.
Discuss how freedom of speech is tempered by existing law, and you will see here that you are using mere words to propose ... read full comment
Your responses always present a deep-seated stupidity akin to this cocaine infested orangutan himself.
Discuss how freedom of speech is tempered by existing law, and you will see here that you are using mere words to propose Nkrumahist despotic ideology of democratic silence.
Nobody on earth can beat Okoampa in arrant stupidity, but you obviously equalize him in all respects! Congrats.
his doctors told him
Professor, once again I'm at a loss to decipher what it is you want to address.
One thing though, that pervades your writing is an effort to lump all NDC folks with Macbeth Rawelings, but you never associate your Dankwa folk ...
read full comment
Well said Nero, but the risible side of it all is Okoampa's selective fallacy of comparing a revolution by JJ RAWLINGS to a terrorist act recently in France which occurred in the premises of the Satirical Magazine of Charlie ...
read full comment
This confused Ahoofe chap again,
I am baaaaaaaaaaack!
Who told CMB was Danquah's seminal idea? Even Nkrumah whose government radically transformed the regulatory structure CMB and made it more efficient never claimed any ...
read full comment
What a wash.
Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe should come off the fallacy associated with either a global acceptance or interpretation of freedom of speech and put speech freedom in its proper perspective, context and cultural requirement.
Ameri ...
read full comment
Your responses always present a deep-seated stupidity akin to this cocaine infested orangutan himself.
Discuss how freedom of speech is tempered by existing law, and you will see here that you are using mere words to propose ...
read full comment