read if you want...big english for you...useless, non productive rubbish!!! he is akufool addo's cousin in cocaine withdrawal....
read if you want...big english for you...useless, non productive rubbish!!! he is akufool addo's cousin in cocaine withdrawal....
Kwame Ntim 10 years ago
Hello Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe,
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 ... read full comment
Hello Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe,
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 at the time young 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 and the campus paper.
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. They are as good as Ghanaweb. Your articles are not scholarly enough. Do you think your Ghanaweb articles are scholarly? What rubbish!
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? What impact have they had on South America? What impact have they had in Ghana? Zero!
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. Dare me!
Neither are you known in the field of African literature. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's son who has written a couple of books is well-known in America (and Europe) 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, Jr., one of America's leading public intellectuals,doesn't know you or about your work. I once heard you bragging on Ghanaweb that Gates has threatened to reduce the number of students from your Ivy League Community college from entering Harvard. How stupid of you!
You think this important scholar has time for your foolishness and stupidity. Have you read his books or seen his TV programs educating the world about the African world (though not everything he shows or says about Africa) is right.
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?
Rather than debate your "high-school" Ghanaweb readers, why don't you, Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, quote from your "scholarly" books and essays published in respected peer review journals?
Why don't you use your "scholarly" research and "scholarly" articles in respected peer review to debate your "high-school" critics? Why always rely on Ghanaweb articles to attack your critics? Why do you, Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, show your critics class?
How many respected scholars have used or quoted from your body of work? Could you tell them how your scholarship has impacted society? Look at Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Nuruddin Farah, etc? Even within Africa, your are an intellectual child of the Awoonors, Armahs, etc. 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 to hers. You and I know this.
Ghanaweb readers are more likely to know you than American intellectuals and students in the African/African American Studies field. How many African stidents have read your work? Most Ghanaians who know you are those who read your Ghanaweb articles. Nearly every Ghanaian (I have dealt with) who doesn't use Ghanaweb knows you or heard your name!Forget your work. They don't know them though they know about Achebe, Awoonor, Armah, Chimamanda, Aidoo, etc.
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 in the world will publish your mediocre work!
I hope you are aware that CUNY (City University of New York), 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 or preparation) in the New York area, especially minorities. It was probably why you were able to get admission into it in the first place.
I remember taking an English class with a doctoral student from the English department (the graduate center) who didn't know what "nought" was. He explianed to the class that "nought" was "not nothing." These are the kinds of English professors you sometimes get within the CUNY system.
Moreover, 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. You should not be proud of being a CUNY alumni.
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. Both Lehman and Baruch colleges, both part of the CUNY, has a better program in English than City College.
Lehman College, for instance, has a better English program than City College. High-school students 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 up 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 appellate 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 not the intellctual equal of any of the scholars you mention in your article, My Madiba Moment-part 3. These are scholars whose work are influential and 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 scholars and leaders are proverbial. These are creative scholars who develop theories and apply them on the ground to make human life better. Can you say the same of yourself? Isn't all your scholarship about ethnocentrism, hatred, stupidity, mediocrity, insults, cluelessness, and foolishness?
In fact, City College will not dream of making you the head of any of its programs because there are more accomplished scholars, 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? Isn't community college more like our old secondary school Form 5 (O'LEVEL)? Can you compare a community college to secondary school Sixth Form (a'level)? Hell no. Why are you proud of yourself then? I was a teaching assitant in a community college (Hostos Community College, also part of CUNY system). Among other things, I had to teach new students algebra which involves explaining to students the outcome of adding negative 20 to positive 10, say.
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 and serious 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 review 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 about the respected peer review journals you publish in and give them your citation index( how many scholars/researcers quote or use your work.
Anything short of that is vanity. Most respected scholars in your field put their hyperbolic intellectual biographies in best-selling memoirs/autobiographis. Do the same. Most readers on Ghanaweb don't know you are lying or exagerating your intellectual abilities.
Tell them about renowned Ghanaian intellectuals like Dr. Emmanuel Acheampong, Dr. Daniel Bentil, Dr. Ashitey Trebi-Ollenu, Dr. Ave Kludze, etc. English is not science, mathematics, or engineering. You don't need any special gifts to read English. But no so with mathematics, engineering, or physics.
Fool!
ENOBA 10 years ago
Kwame, this seems like a personal attack on the writer and nothing to do with the substance of his piece that you might have disagreed with.
I have never met you nor read anything that you have posted but you seemed to be ... read full comment
Kwame, this seems like a personal attack on the writer and nothing to do with the substance of his piece that you might have disagreed with.
I have never met you nor read anything that you have posted but you seemed to be a smart person judging from your comments. For that reason I would have expected you to do a lot better than you just did.
Ahoofe might be all that but nowhere in his article did he insult anyone. And even if he did, in a sense, why lower yourself to that standard? I think you could have handled this lot better.
What do you think?
YAW 10 years ago
PLEASE RE-READ THE INSULTS HEAPED ON NKRUMAH IN AHOOFE"S ARTICLE.LOOK THE GUY IS A PURVEYOR LIES.IF YOU ANY ADVICE KINDLY GIVE IT TO AHOOFE. KWAME NTIM, IS PERFECTLY NORMAL AND SANE,AHOOFE,IS NOT.THANKS.
PLEASE RE-READ THE INSULTS HEAPED ON NKRUMAH IN AHOOFE"S ARTICLE.LOOK THE GUY IS A PURVEYOR LIES.IF YOU ANY ADVICE KINDLY GIVE IT TO AHOOFE. KWAME NTIM, IS PERFECTLY NORMAL AND SANE,AHOOFE,IS NOT.THANKS.
ENOBA 10 years ago
Point well taken!
Point well taken!
YAW 10 years ago
THANKS FOR YOUR POLITE REPLY.I MADE A FEW TYPOS,BUT AM GLAD YOU GOT THE MESSAGE.AHOOFE,COULD HAVE MADE HIMSELF USEFUL BY HELPING YOUNG WRITERS IN GHANA VIA GHANAWEB,INSTEAD HE HAS RESORTED TO SOPHISM AND TRIBAL HATRED.WHAT SO ... read full comment
THANKS FOR YOUR POLITE REPLY.I MADE A FEW TYPOS,BUT AM GLAD YOU GOT THE MESSAGE.AHOOFE,COULD HAVE MADE HIMSELF USEFUL BY HELPING YOUNG WRITERS IN GHANA VIA GHANAWEB,INSTEAD HE HAS RESORTED TO SOPHISM AND TRIBAL HATRED.WHAT SORT OF PROF IS THAT?
Owuau Kinsley 10 years ago
Dr. Nkrumah’s vision was for the whole Africa and the whole world (black Man). That is why most African-Americans during him time adopted Ghana as their home. Mandela’s journey outside South Africa was to Lagos, Accra, Al ... read full comment
Dr. Nkrumah’s vision was for the whole Africa and the whole world (black Man). That is why most African-Americans during him time adopted Ghana as their home. Mandela’s journey outside South Africa was to Lagos, Accra, Algiers and Dar es Salem. Nkrumah was not imprisoned for 27 year for his course but was overthrown, and died for the same course as Mandela.
My dear tell me what was Madiba’s vision or agenda for the Black race? Show me at least one.
He got the cancer from the Britain and American insighted assassination attack at Kolongugu. Ghanaians with their deep divisions on tribal line which was fanned politically by Anglo-America Empire makes the Twi speaking Ghanaians envious of Dr. Nkrumah and makes Ghanaians not to celebrate him “Akoko besa den ennye Akroma fe da” The spiritual truth is that UGCC/NPP has stayed as and still an oppositions party due to this British-American tribally fuelled sentiments in them. They will never prosper until that is stopped.
Dr. Nkrumah’s period was a period of two factions in the world politics that fueled the COLD WAR between USSR and Anglo-America. It is even known that during the initial stages of the South African struggle, Mandela believed in ideals of socialism thus their alliance with the South African Communist Party. Most of these Asian countries started with socialism so they have developed an inherent discipline that makes them to see corruption as curse: now that they are in democracy, the discipline is in them already for national development. Ghana’s story was not like that. Nkrumah started with democracy in Ghana but due to the secret agendas of the Anglo-America Empire not wanting Africans to prosper as united front, he switched to socialism which was to instill discipline in us. We didn’t allow it to create our own African personality and identity hence our present state of corruption that has killed us.
Dr. Nkrumah did it all for Ghana and united us: look at how sweet Ghanaians blended sweetly with the latter added Volta Region. Think of about 62 well built industries, education, and economy, count it. He warned us not to allow the military to rule for they are there to defend. The Whites came to loot Ghana not to build. But infrastructure, economy, and everything in SA are superb, the Whites built them.
While Dr. Nkrumah thought and planned for the future that will solve Africans’ problems once and for all, Madiba planned for South Africans only. Was He not receiving foreign dignitaries while South Africans were killing other African Nationals in SA? Thanks to President Thabo Mbeki, Bishop Tutu and the President Jacob Zuma. Tell me one thing or statement that Madiba did or said that include the whole continent.
Look at the numerous other African Nationals in Ghana during Dr Nkrumah’s time. One Nigerian old lady told me some time ago: “How is Busia? Eh Busia made us to vote for him and chased us out afterwards. God bless him for his wickedness” Is this a good talk?
Well Madiba united South Africans and sort reconciliation for them which was good leadership. Madiba's legacy is the South African Xenophobic sentiments and their ministers bullying other African leaders at AU conferences. The legacy is their undermining Malawian roads. Nkrumah united blacks throughout the world that led to the present peace Ghana is enjoying. Mandela’s legacy is cancelling death sentence leading to rampant criminal activities with foreign nationals being the target. My brother read to become intellectual being a professor etc does not make you an intellectual rather it is based on your ability to think critically.
Dr. Nkrumah still relied on the White man for the professionals that he does not have for the nation building while to Mandela’s South Africa, things of the white man is abusive meanwhile they don’t have the professionals. Youth must read and become intellectuals.
OSAGYEFO LIVES
YAW 10 years ago
DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME MY GOOD FRIEND.AHOOFE,HAS A CONCRETE MIND WHICH IS PERMANENTLY SET.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME MY GOOD FRIEND.AHOOFE,HAS A CONCRETE MIND WHICH IS PERMANENTLY SET.
Left Critic 10 years ago
The illiterate moron strikes again
The illiterate moron strikes again
KOFI 10 years ago
HE IS MORE THAN LITERATE.HIS FAVOURITE THEORY IS HIS ABILITY IN DISTORTING FACTS...BUT GHANAIAN ARE SAVVY ENOUGH FOR THIS LECTURER OF DETRITUS TO DECEIVE.
HE IS MORE THAN LITERATE.HIS FAVOURITE THEORY IS HIS ABILITY IN DISTORTING FACTS...BUT GHANAIAN ARE SAVVY ENOUGH FOR THIS LECTURER OF DETRITUS TO DECEIVE.
Kojo Essuman 10 years ago
Ahoofe,whether you like it or not Kwame Nkrumah was declared the greatest African who lived within the past 1,000 years in a BBC poll in December 1999 when Mandela was alive.The opinion of the misinformed American President B ... read full comment
Ahoofe,whether you like it or not Kwame Nkrumah was declared the greatest African who lived within the past 1,000 years in a BBC poll in December 1999 when Mandela was alive.The opinion of the misinformed American President Barrack Obama,who was only four and half years old when Nkrumah was overthrown,and his ignorant Speech writer cannot trump that BBC poll.
Yaw 10 years ago
I sometimes wonder if you realy have a PhD. You always insult people in your articles and I think an academic must always use superior logic to make his point. I do not think you are well versed in global affairs eventhoung y ... read full comment
I sometimes wonder if you realy have a PhD. You always insult people in your articles and I think an academic must always use superior logic to make his point. I do not think you are well versed in global affairs eventhoung you claim you live in America. If you are really living in America kindly go out tomorow and ask anybody white or black if they know Dr. J. B. Danquah? I promise you, you will not get even one person saying he or she knows J. B. Danquah. But try asking any Tom, Dick, Harry and Nancy and the reponse will blow your mind.Nana Akufo Addo should be wary of people like you who are doing a lot of political damage to his(Akufo Addo) presidential ambition. Argue like the academic you claim to be.You flaunting your academic credential is what makes a person an intellectual?
Frank Appiah 10 years ago
Ahoofe,please contact Kojo Essuman for some lessons.You will gain a lot of wisdom.Thank you,Kojo.
Ahoofe,please contact Kojo Essuman for some lessons.You will gain a lot of wisdom.Thank you,Kojo.
read if you want...big english for you...useless, non productive rubbish!!! he is akufool addo's cousin in cocaine withdrawal....
Hello Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe,
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 ...
read full comment
Kwame, this seems like a personal attack on the writer and nothing to do with the substance of his piece that you might have disagreed with.
I have never met you nor read anything that you have posted but you seemed to be ...
read full comment
PLEASE RE-READ THE INSULTS HEAPED ON NKRUMAH IN AHOOFE"S ARTICLE.LOOK THE GUY IS A PURVEYOR LIES.IF YOU ANY ADVICE KINDLY GIVE IT TO AHOOFE. KWAME NTIM, IS PERFECTLY NORMAL AND SANE,AHOOFE,IS NOT.THANKS.
Point well taken!
THANKS FOR YOUR POLITE REPLY.I MADE A FEW TYPOS,BUT AM GLAD YOU GOT THE MESSAGE.AHOOFE,COULD HAVE MADE HIMSELF USEFUL BY HELPING YOUNG WRITERS IN GHANA VIA GHANAWEB,INSTEAD HE HAS RESORTED TO SOPHISM AND TRIBAL HATRED.WHAT SO ...
read full comment
Dr. Nkrumah’s vision was for the whole Africa and the whole world (black Man). That is why most African-Americans during him time adopted Ghana as their home. Mandela’s journey outside South Africa was to Lagos, Accra, Al ...
read full comment
DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME MY GOOD FRIEND.AHOOFE,HAS A CONCRETE MIND WHICH IS PERMANENTLY SET.
The illiterate moron strikes again
HE IS MORE THAN LITERATE.HIS FAVOURITE THEORY IS HIS ABILITY IN DISTORTING FACTS...BUT GHANAIAN ARE SAVVY ENOUGH FOR THIS LECTURER OF DETRITUS TO DECEIVE.
Ahoofe,whether you like it or not Kwame Nkrumah was declared the greatest African who lived within the past 1,000 years in a BBC poll in December 1999 when Mandela was alive.The opinion of the misinformed American President B ...
read full comment
I sometimes wonder if you realy have a PhD. You always insult people in your articles and I think an academic must always use superior logic to make his point. I do not think you are well versed in global affairs eventhoung y ...
read full comment
Ahoofe,please contact Kojo Essuman for some lessons.You will gain a lot of wisdom.Thank you,Kojo.