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Mmaa
In this threnodic and filial homage to his late mother, Okoampa-Ahoofe wistfully depicts the matriarch as an all-pervading spirit of boundless generosity and warmth. It is a solemn and loving conversation between the poet and his creator-mother and esthetic muse.
The New Scapegoats
Debunks the widespread and seemingly indelible myth of Africa's blind and facile complicity in the massive uprootment and enslavement of its own in the Americas between the Fifteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates the Transatlantic Slave Trade to have been the primary product of Western Europe's industrial revolution.
Dr. J. B. Danquah: Architect of Modern Ghana
PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK: "Highly educative! Dr. J. B. Danquah: Architect of Modern Ghana brings early post-colonial Ghanaian politics full circle, the way it ought to be. Indeed, it is most appropriate that the Doyen of the Ghanaian independence movement should get this treatment at a time when the Danquah-Busia tradition is on the ascendancy in Ghana." -Roger Gocking, historian, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York, author of The History of Ghana and Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities Under Colonial Rule.
Odo Ye 'wu
Critical Praise for Okoampa-Ahoofe's Poetry "Okoampa-Ahoofe...has a profound respect for language and the use of words. His works reflect a very patient craftsman choosing words to express his thought, chiseling and re-chiseling to get to the right meaning, tone, color, etc..." --Yusef Salaam, The New York Amsterdam News
We Are Worth Fighting For
The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgen...
Obaasima
Obaasima: Ideal Woman exults in the beauty of romance and womanhood. The poet pays homage to a lady who once captured, for him, the essence of reciprocal love. It is an unforgettable feast of the psyche.
Atumpan: Drum-Talk
In Atumpan: Drum-Talk, Okoampa-Ahoofe evokes the primal and visceral essence of rhythm in words. The poetic voice captured in this ebullient anthology is at once poignant and perfusive.
Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms
Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune explores the complexities of human existence. It highlights the lability or existential lack of constancy in fortunes.
Paa: a Tribute
Notable critical praise for Okoampa-Ahoofe's poetry: "Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe is a poet whose aunt once aptly called him a 'son of drums.' Poetry is his drum, on which he beats contrapuntal polyrhythms of praise and criticism, joyous celebration and bitter defeat, sexual exultation and existential despair. His poems are passionate in the fullest sense of the word like sheet music for percussion" -Bobbie Kramer, literary critic and scholar.
Nananom
PRAISE FOR OKOAMPA-AHOOFE'S POETRY: "Okoampa-Ahoofe...has a profound respect for language and the use of words. His works reflect a very patient craftsman choosing words to express his thoughts, chiseling and re-chiseling to get to the right meaning, tone, color, etc...." -Yusef Salaam, The New York Amsterdam News
