Okoampa tell us about how you marched and was jailed for opposing NPP dialogue policy. By the way Madiba did not look hagard on release . He was not tired . true he looked older than the pictures we had of him but that was ex ... read full comment
Okoampa tell us about how you marched and was jailed for opposing NPP dialogue policy. By the way Madiba did not look hagard on release . He was not tired . true he looked older than the pictures we had of him but that was expected of a man who had reached 72 , the normal life span for males . You are not a progressive and we all know you have conservative views, So please stop trying to confuse people. try rather to educate your NPP followers who have very parochial views about others. Views like they are more Ghanaian than others and they are the only ones who contribute towards GDP and taxes and others are leaches . you will be working along the Mnadela line of bringing about reconciliation and peace. You see the ignorance leads to conflicts
Kwame Ntim 10 years ago
Hello empty professor,
Don't capitalize on igonrant readers to exaggerate "facts." You are not known in the African/African American Studies field.You are not smart as you think.
Moreover, your write-ups on Ghanaweb cl ... read full comment
Hello empty professor,
Don't capitalize on igonrant readers to exaggerate "facts." You are not known in the African/African American Studies field.You are not smart as you think.
Moreover, your write-ups on Ghanaweb clearly tells us you did nothing better or spectacular in "The Jagged Edge." I wonder the kind of articles you wrote for "The Jagged Edge." Remember,you were young at the time and obviously was not as wise as today and did not have the writing skills you have, if any, today.
Even today when you are supposed to be wise as well as improved upon your writing skills, look at the trash and mediocre write-ups you give readers. In fact, there is nothing radically aggressive about your writings.
Most Puerto Rican (Hispanics)college/university graduates barely write or read English very well. About 10-15% of American university graduates read at the level of middle-or high-school.
Your books are not popular or even known in the field. Most of the editors at respected journals in America, people I personally know, are not familiar with your work. I have personally discussed you with some of them. They are not familiar with your work.
In fact, most of your articles will be rejected by nearly all of the journals in the West. Your articles are not scholarly enough. Do you think your Ghanaweb articles are scholarly?
Writing 20 books does not make you an important teacher in the field. What impact have they had on the world? What impact have they had on America? What impact have they had on Africa?
Most of the leading intellectuals in the field of African/African American Studies don't know you or even heard your name. Stop giving ignorant readers the impression that you are important in the American Academia. You are not.
Neither are you known in the field of African literature. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's son who has written a couple of books is more well-known than you.
The Nigerian-American Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a few books. Yet she is a force in the American academy while you are not. She is more popular with American intellectuals than you. She has even won MacArthur "genius" Award ($500,000).
Henry Louis Gates doesn't know you or your work. No respected anthology of African literature has entries for your work. Could you provide your ill-informed and ignorant readers a citation analysis as far as your work is concerened?
How many respected scholars have used or quoted from your body work? Could you tell themm how your scholarship has impacted society? Look at Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Nuruddin Farah, etc? Even within Africa, your are a child. How many schools in Africa use your books?
Ama Ata Aidoo, for instance, taught at Brown University, an Ivy League, in fact, one of America's top universities, an institution you can never get to teach because the quality of your work does not measure up ti hers. You and I know this.
Ghanaweb readers are more likely to know you than American intellectuals and students in African/African American Studies field. How many African stidents have read your work? Most Ghanaians who know you are those who read Ghanaweb articles. Nearly every Ghanaian (I have dealt with) who doesn't use Ghanaweb knows you or heard your name!Forget your work.
You spend a lot of quality time writing junk for Ghanaweb and other mediocre websites because you know in your heart that no respected journal will publish your work!
I hope you are aware that CUNY, of which City College is part, is not even rated amongst the top 100 best univeristies/colleges in America. CUNY was, more or less, designed for
poor Americans (with poor pre-university skills) in the New York area, especially minorities. It was probably why you were able to get admission into it in the first place.
CUNY has one of the lowest admissions requirements in America. CUNY also recordS one of the highest dropout rates in the country. And its community colleges are some of the worst in North America.
Even within CUNY, City College has never been known to have strong English programs. It's noted more for its science and engineering programs than for its liberal arts/humanities. Its liberal arts programs are not rated among the best in the country.
Lehman College, for instance, has a better English program than City College. High-school who have serious and writing problems are more likely to get into City College than, say, New York Univesity. City College is not even counted among the best in New York. Stop exaggerating your views about City College.
I have personally known nearly all the black professors you mention in your article here. We have met at various conferences. Dr. Leonard Jeffries is not a published scholar. The late Bernal Martin, author of the controversial Black Athena, once took him on this. Edward Scobie used to publish in Ivan Van Sertima's "The Journal of African Civilizations."
Dr. Jeffries got into trouble primarily for introducing "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," a book published by the Nation of Islam. This books deals with the role Jews played in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
He successfully sued City College for violating his first amendment rights only for an appelate court to reverse the decision. The late Dr. Tony Martin of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, got into a similar problem with Jews when he used the same book in his class.
Please don't make the controversy simplistic for your ignorant readers. Yet you are the intelelctual equal of any of the scholars you mention in your article. These are scholars whose work are influential known the world over. In fact, Dr. Jeffries is noted for his influential consultancies with public high-schools in New York and New Jersey. His work with African scholar and leaders are proverbial. These are creative scholars who develop theories and apply them in on the ground to make human life better. Can you say the same of yourself? Isn't all your scholarship about ethnocentrism, hatred, insults, and foolishness?
In fact, City College will not dream of making you the head of any of its programs because there are well-published and better researchers who will qualify for the post. You are an intellectual kid as far as quality research is concerned.
Finally, why do you teach at a community college? Tell your readers that community colleges, unlike senior colleges, don't require much from their professors? That work loads at community colleges are not as heavy as those at senior colleges? In effect, community colleges have low expectations of their professors in terms of university work. It's why you get time to write junk for Ghanaweb. Any scholar worth his/her salt will write for respected peer-reviewed journals. We know all the Ghanaian scholars who do this even as they write for Ghanaweb.
Don't give your ignorant readers the impression that you are important in the American academia. Tell them all the respected peer-reviewed journals you publish in and give us your citation index( how many scholars/researcers quote or use your work. Anything short of that is bragging)You are not. Most respected scholars in your field put their hyperbolic intellectual biography in best-selling memoirs/autobiographis. Do the same. Most readers on Ghanaweb don't know you are lying or exagerating your intellectual abilities.
OKATAKYIE 10 years ago
Kwame Nti, you've poked your finger into Ahoofe's eye and deflated his ego and put him in his place with your articulate, polite and intelligently presented comment.
Okoampa-Ahoofe actually thinks he's a prominent academic/i ... read full comment
Kwame Nti, you've poked your finger into Ahoofe's eye and deflated his ego and put him in his place with your articulate, polite and intelligently presented comment.
Okoampa-Ahoofe actually thinks he's a prominent academic/intellectual by writing those denigrating articles on Ghanaweb with his pomposity, razor-tongued and cheese-grater personality.
I wonder if Okoampa-Ahoofe will come out fighting.
Kwame Ntim 10 years ago
Dear good friend,
I will find the opportunity to tell you who I really am.
There's more to the story but let me say just a little here for now. I was educated in the CUNY system myself. I have a few professor friends wh ... read full comment
Dear good friend,
I will find the opportunity to tell you who I really am.
There's more to the story but let me say just a little here for now. I was educated in the CUNY system myself. I have a few professor friends who teach in the CYNU system.
I have many friends who received their degrees from CUNY. Some of my immediate relatives received their degrees from CUNY.
I have visited some black professors in the African/African American fields and sat in their class though I was not a student at City College. I did that for curiosity sake.
I am familiar with many of the heavyweights in the field (US) where this guy who calls himself Ahoofe works.
I simply hate it when people use scholarship to deceive others. Don't try to paint who you obviously are not. I know so much about him and his work in America.Intellectually, he's not half what he claims to be.
I am not in this Ahoofe's field but I surely can take him on and treat him as he should be treated. Let him bring on the challenge. I am waiting.
I shall probably say more later.
Thanks.
YAW 10 years ago
GREAT REBUTTAL,THE ONLY DOWNSIDE IS YOUR CONSTANT REF TO GHANAIAN READERS AS IGNORANT...WE ARE NOT.THIS WAS MY OWN RESPONSE TO AHOOFE"S MADIBA PART2.AHOOFE,AN EXECRABLE PROFESSOR.MR AHOOFE,THE PREENING POPINJAY OF AKYEM,CAN N ... read full comment
GREAT REBUTTAL,THE ONLY DOWNSIDE IS YOUR CONSTANT REF TO GHANAIAN READERS AS IGNORANT...WE ARE NOT.THIS WAS MY OWN RESPONSE TO AHOOFE"S MADIBA PART2.AHOOFE,AN EXECRABLE PROFESSOR.MR AHOOFE,THE PREENING POPINJAY OF AKYEM,CAN NEVER EVER WRITE AN ARTICLE WITHOUT SUBTRACTING FROM THE ENTIRE SUM OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.THE MORE I READ HIS ARTICLES,THE MORE I LOVE MY PARROT.TODAY"S ARTICLE IS A COMPLETE PYRAMID OF PIFFLE, THAT IS BEING GENEROUS.WE KNOW FOR A FACT,IF AHOOFE,WORE STILTS WITHIN THE ACADEMIC FIELD IN GHANA,HE WILL STILL BE A FUCKING MIDGET.BY THE WAY,THANKS FOR DEFLATING HIS SUPER EGO,BRAVO!
Kwame Ntim 10 years ago
Dear friend,
I did not mean that in a negative way.
I was only making a reference to issues like the one which nearly destroyed Dr. Jeffries' academic career.
That happened so long ago that most Ghanaians I persona ... read full comment
Dear friend,
I did not mean that in a negative way.
I was only making a reference to issues like the one which nearly destroyed Dr. Jeffries' academic career.
That happened so long ago that most Ghanaians I personally know who read Ahoofe regularly and have read this particular piece don't know these facts.
As I said my earlier comment to OKATAKYIE, authoriing 20 books and junk articles on Ghanaweb do not make you an important scholar anywahere in the world. It's the impact of one's work that matters.
For instance, Taiye Selasi's single book "Ghana Must Go" has made impacted the reading republic more than Ahoofe's 20 books and 20 million Ghanaweb articles combined.
I have personally met Dr. Jeffries on several occassion. I know nearly all the others he mentioned. Ahoofe does not belong in that class. He's merely boasting here.
Moreover, City College is not an institution to boast about. There are many respected Ghanaian scholars who teach at some of America's most respected institutions but are socially modest.
Dr. Emmanuel K. Acheampong, for instance, is well-respected in the American academy. He played an important role in creating the African/African American Studies program at Harvard University. The quality of his work is well known in the American academy.
Dr. Acheampong has been involved in some of the most important work on the black world.Yet you don't see him on Ghanaweb talking about or writing trash trash like this guy, Ahoofe, does.
Do we think insults, hatred, ethnocentrism, and poor writing by Ahoofe would have gotten Dr. Acheampong where he's today? The work of good scholars speak for themselves.
Finally, Taiye Selasi or Dr. Acheampong doesn't have to appear on Ghanaweb with a litany of his achievements. Let someone else do that job. In fact. Dr. Acheampong and Selasi can do that on Ghanaweb because their work is well known.
Please forgive me for my joice of words.
Thanks.
kk 10 years ago
Dont be discouraged Dr Ahoofe, keep writing. am inspired to read and write more anytime i read ur articles.
Dont be discouraged Dr Ahoofe, keep writing. am inspired to read and write more anytime i read ur articles.
YAW 10 years ago
thanks for your courteous and polite response.
thanks for your courteous and polite response.
KK 10 years ago
Eiiii, Okoampah can blow his horns!!!!
Geee! I was this, I did that, I am this, I have done this, This is me...
Well, this is the agama lizard falling down from the iroko tree. If no one will praise him, he will praise ... read full comment
Eiiii, Okoampah can blow his horns!!!!
Geee! I was this, I did that, I am this, I have done this, This is me...
Well, this is the agama lizard falling down from the iroko tree. If no one will praise him, he will praise himself and go his way...
So Okoampah has to sing his own songs since no one will do it for him. Certainly not Kwame Ntim.
Ei, the day one of Okoampah's novels will get shortlisted (even longlisted) for the Booker or Pullitzer, that will be the day. Much younger writers with African origins have had that honour - Chimamanda with her first book, Esi Edugyan last year, Noviolet Bulawayo this year, Taiye Selasie's only novel mentioned by The Economist as one of the major novels of 2013, Teju Cole and many others. I look, from my European hideout, for Okoampah's name and never find it.
I also find it strange that professors in the US have so much time on their hands to be writing on silly issues for ghanaweb ON A DAILY BASIS (Okoampah and Bokor). Don't they have other things to do?
Well, Okoampah will sing his own songs...
NAKED 10 years ago
Upon all Sampson foolishness we still blame Delilah that is how the world is people always put blame on one other, even it was in existence when Adam sinned he blamed God for given him Eve, Eve also blamed God for creating th ... read full comment
Upon all Sampson foolishness we still blame Delilah that is how the world is people always put blame on one other, even it was in existence when Adam sinned he blamed God for given him Eve, Eve also blamed God for creating the snake and the snake should also blamed who? If your parents are fools does that means that you are a fool? Only black Africans I repeat only black Africans won't learn sense from the past so always fooling themselves why am I saying so? Since the time immemorial black Africans has been victimized to Europeans sinister but still never learn sense and always following their ways, from slavery to colonization, genocide, tribal wars, etc are there to teach us lessons.
J.E. Kwegir Aggrey said something about African, I quote: “My people of Africa, we were created in the image of God, but men have made us think we sare chickens, and still we think we are, but we are Eagles. Don't content with the food for chickens! Stretch forth your wings and fly!" J.E Kwegir Aggrey was speaking to Africans and for that matter Ghanaians as well, he was speaking as one who have vision for his people, he was speaking as one who knew the westerners way of thinking about Africans but yet still we encomium them we still called them our friends but in their minds they see us as their worst enemies.
Kwegir Aggrey said that Ghanaians and Africans as a whole, don’t content with the food for chickens because we are not chickens but rather humans created by YHWH, and my question is are we not content with the food for chickens? The answer is big yes with capital (B), if we are content with the food for chickens, then it means we as people of Africa and Ghana to be precise are chickens yes with capital (Y), why should it happened upon all our resource we are still chickens to the Europeans? After they abolished the slave trade they replaced it with colonization and after independence, they introduce war, upon all those mishaps and, the chaos they have caused in Africa the continent cannot rise on its own so African leaders seek something called foreign AID from western countries and remember, if the Devil promise to give you 10 percent of something, there are two things involve either he will demand 20 percent from you or you will succumb to his decisions so anything he tells you, you will do it or you give out your property and this is what is going in Africa or Ghana.
This is how the world market is about, in the world market the more you destroy your opponent the more your things are been purchase on high prices ever since the Europeans came in contact with black Africans they have found many ways to tarnish their image, example is the Evolution of Charles Darwin and his bogus scientist propounded, the idea behind the evolution simple means black people are not humans they are less evolved, so they started publishing books that can destroy the image of Africans, the more they tried to tarnish our image the more YHWH intervene for us. In their various meetings they planned how to destroy black people but our God is God who never allowed their plans to succeeded in Akan language they called Him Onyankr)pong, in Ewe language they called Him Mawu, in Ga language they called Him Attaanyomo is true that our ancestors knew God, so God also never allowed their evil purpose to succeeded. These entire unscrupulous acts happened when you and I were not born, how it is reflecting in our lives today? The evolution theory led to something called race and racism came out of race, racism is the last weapon to defeat the blacks, but this time they are not doing it alone but have got support from the east, the reason been that the east who never came to contact with Africans copied everything from the west and have lied about it and are saying that is their history now you see how the trend is going, so whom to trust east or west?
At times I asked myself so many question concerning black Africans upon all what these people are doing to us we still follow them, we still trade with them, upon all what they did and what they’re doing to us, another question also popped my mind why African leaders perform poorly when they elected as president, ministers, mps etc, African leaders steals the nation money and deposited in western countries, why they don’t care about their citizens? The new slavery system has taken over in our modern era, in this era is not about selling your follow human being to them, but selling your conscience to them. Then if modern slavery is about selling one conscience to the westerners then it means many Africa leaders have sold their conscience to them? Apparently yes. What I’m saying it takes critical thinkers and nature incliners to understand and know that am speaking the truth. Now Africans leaders have sold their conscience to the westerners, so the leaders are enemies to their citizens, so now Ghanaians or Africans are still slaves to west through their leaders. They have set our leaders as billboard but in reality they are still operating their slavery system and at this time with our prominent people of which some people consider them as literate in our society, that is why in my early written I stated that Ghana education is pseudo education with pseudo intellectuals it will be hard for any educational elites in Ghana to identify this if am lying.
Someone will tell me that, what I’m saying is rhetoric because there is no evidence. In United State of America system of government if you’re a governor and you refused to go by some secret society in USA constitution then definitely you will be assassinate example is J.F. Kennedy, if you want more information read this book, THE SECRET TERRORIST, the Author of the book name is BILL HUGHS. These people have the upper hand in all the biggest institution in the world talking of IMF, WORLD BANK, etc the one and the only governor who never succumbed to their decision is Kwame Nkrumah but he too was a power drunk. So immediately the poor citizens elect their leaders from then, the leaders becomes enemy to them by taking them back to slavery but at time is a conscience slavery or I called it slavery by conscience, poor citizens is not your fault to elect people to lead you as a nation but the fact is those leaders are slaves to their western masters so they take advice from their masters more than their citizens, they serve in the interest of their master but not the interest of their citizens.
When one becomes president in Africa and he/she is going for loan this is what they asked him/her are you going to use our constitution to rule? because they are slaves already they agree to them and after collecting it they begin to sell out the nation assets to them and devalue some valuable things in the nation, some of our leaders sold some nation assets to the Europeans for them to have power again in our nation, some of them devalued the education system, the currency etc on what grounds can Africa country buy a national assets in western countries? But when you come to Ghana you see the western countries buying our national assets oh what a moron country with moron people, anyone who doesn’t believe in slave trade, this form of slave trade is there for you to see. Now in the olden day’s slavery, they were selling humans but at this time our billboard leaders are selling the national assets and have devalued our valuable things such as our education system and our currency. The back bone of any country is education; any countries which have good education system develops so as it currency as an economic factor, now how can we say about Ghana? Poor education system and poor currency oh Ghana why? Now the nation is financially handicap and the leaders have filled their tummy with the national money corruption has become a canker among our leaders.
Condoleezza Rice, US general secretary in former President Bush administration once attended AU meeting and addressed our leaders not to trust east or west because they are coming for their own interest but not the interest of Africa, but what do we see because our puppet or billboard leaders have sold their conscience to them they still follow them, no wonder we are still slaves. We are still slaves my brothers and sisters, let’s not deceived ourselves that we are in the 21st century so everything has changed, it’s still going on, our national assets are been sold to them now they have say in our affairs oh God have mercy on poor Africa Ghana, you’re not in chains so you think is not true but it is happening day in and day out right in front of your nose. When our leaders come as president ministers and mps, they only think about themselves and how to sell a nation asset to their master. How can a president after looting and sold the national assets through dubious means and upon all the money he looted still demanding for an ex-gracias? How a president can kill some people because they have some little amount of money in their accounts and also have borrowed money from the bank and this same president sold national assets to his wife, looted the state, devalued our educational system and then sent his children to school in abroad? How a president can increased his salary 100% and are paying huge amount of judgment debts to some people? How a president can devalue our currency, sold national assets and sent away his follow Africans to their country? So you see the list can go on and on without endless, they all puppet or billboard leaders who are serving and were served the interest of the west by sending us to slavery.
No matter how you will vote for NPP or NDC they are all puppet or billboard leaders whose aim is to send us to slavery so citizens be careful don’t let these people ideologies entice you to fall a victim they have done and have succeeded. So why are you worry about these stomachticians who called themselves politicians whiles we can kick them off? So why are you worry about our puppet or billboard leaders while we can kick them off? I try to let my people understand the reality of 1800 theory from Charles Darwin, it fresh in their memory and when copy east who also copied read it, is the same thing but the victimization is upon my people back the more foolish they become oh God save your people. Now let’s answer the few questions are we not chickens? We are because we are getting AID, second hand clothes, fake things etc. I do not hate east or west neither do I hate Africans but the truth is the truth, stand for the truth always stand alone. Stay tune with me, more things are coming to explode your mind. E-mail wellsbrains2000@yahoo.com, whatsapp 008613566124757
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago
THE S AFRICANS WILL BURY MANDELA IN HIS HOMETOWN, HIS BIRTHPLACE. IN GH, THEY WILL BURY HIM IN ACCRA. U SEE OUR PRIMITVE, STUPID MENTALITY. WE MUST CHANGE!
THE S AFRICANS WILL BURY MANDELA IN HIS HOMETOWN, HIS BIRTHPLACE. IN GH, THEY WILL BURY HIM IN ACCRA. U SEE OUR PRIMITVE, STUPID MENTALITY. WE MUST CHANGE!
Kofi Nsia 10 years ago
Okoampa- Ahoofe,what a stupid name.My message to you is simple.You did not grow on trees,so for the sake of mankind...stop swinging on trees.
Okoampa- Ahoofe,what a stupid name.My message to you is simple.You did not grow on trees,so for the sake of mankind...stop swinging on trees.
... unless someone stops him.
Okoampa tell us about how you marched and was jailed for opposing NPP dialogue policy. By the way Madiba did not look hagard on release . He was not tired . true he looked older than the pictures we had of him but that was ex ...
read full comment
Hello empty professor,
Don't capitalize on igonrant readers to exaggerate "facts." You are not known in the African/African American Studies field.You are not smart as you think.
Moreover, your write-ups on Ghanaweb cl ...
read full comment
Kwame Nti, you've poked your finger into Ahoofe's eye and deflated his ego and put him in his place with your articulate, polite and intelligently presented comment.
Okoampa-Ahoofe actually thinks he's a prominent academic/i ...
read full comment
Dear good friend,
I will find the opportunity to tell you who I really am.
There's more to the story but let me say just a little here for now. I was educated in the CUNY system myself. I have a few professor friends wh ...
read full comment
GREAT REBUTTAL,THE ONLY DOWNSIDE IS YOUR CONSTANT REF TO GHANAIAN READERS AS IGNORANT...WE ARE NOT.THIS WAS MY OWN RESPONSE TO AHOOFE"S MADIBA PART2.AHOOFE,AN EXECRABLE PROFESSOR.MR AHOOFE,THE PREENING POPINJAY OF AKYEM,CAN N ...
read full comment
Dear friend,
I did not mean that in a negative way.
I was only making a reference to issues like the one which nearly destroyed Dr. Jeffries' academic career.
That happened so long ago that most Ghanaians I persona ...
read full comment
Dont be discouraged Dr Ahoofe, keep writing. am inspired to read and write more anytime i read ur articles.
thanks for your courteous and polite response.
Eiiii, Okoampah can blow his horns!!!!
Geee! I was this, I did that, I am this, I have done this, This is me...
Well, this is the agama lizard falling down from the iroko tree. If no one will praise him, he will praise ...
read full comment
Upon all Sampson foolishness we still blame Delilah that is how the world is people always put blame on one other, even it was in existence when Adam sinned he blamed God for given him Eve, Eve also blamed God for creating th ...
read full comment
THE S AFRICANS WILL BURY MANDELA IN HIS HOMETOWN, HIS BIRTHPLACE. IN GH, THEY WILL BURY HIM IN ACCRA. U SEE OUR PRIMITVE, STUPID MENTALITY. WE MUST CHANGE!
Okoampa- Ahoofe,what a stupid name.My message to you is simple.You did not grow on trees,so for the sake of mankind...stop swinging on trees.