Dr. Kunbuor overreached himself on Drill-Ship

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• Repugnant. 12 years ago

  "it has now been clearly and forensically sustainably proven that,"
  
  And what was that? S-O;so m-u;moo so mu gye wo akrantee!!
  
  ADVERBS MODIFY VERBS, USE THE COMPARATIVE TO REFER TO TWO THINGS,THE SUPERLATIVE TO MORE T ...
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  "it has now been clearly and forensically sustainably proven that,"
  
  And what was that? S-O;so m-u;moo so mu gye wo akrantee!!
  
  ADVERBS MODIFY VERBS, USE THE COMPARATIVE TO REFER TO TWO THINGS,THE SUPERLATIVE TO MORE THAN TWO. eg rapidly, more rapidly or most rapidly.

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• Mr. Figure-Out 12 years ago

  Much as I chastised Kwabena Tahir( Tahiru or Tahere, as my Kookoase brethren would say) for hitting below belt as an honorable, the partisan mischief in Kumbour's jingoistic calls of irresponsible comparison was so moot and ...
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  Much as I chastised Kwabena Tahir( Tahiru or Tahere, as my Kookoase brethren would say) for hitting below belt as an honorable, the partisan mischief in Kumbour's jingoistic calls of irresponsible comparison was so moot and repugnant that, as a layman, I would rather endorse more harsher words like 'ofui' or cow-dung for the majority leader. Who among reasonable human beings, if one is not a Trokosi, would support and compare Woyome's gargantuan heist of such colossal magnitude to that of the sale of the drillship on the floor of parliament.

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• K. T. KOTI BOTOR 12 years ago

  So now NPP fools have found a reason to dump K.T. Koti Botor's shit on Kumbour.

  So now NPP fools have found a reason to dump K.T. Koti Botor's shit on Kumbour.

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• GODWIN 12 years ago

  This so called Ph.D. is nothing but a fool who is politically bias and blinded by his own foolishness. How can a matured brain write such a thing for the public to read?

  This so called Ph.D. is nothing but a fool who is politically bias and blinded by his own foolishness. How can a matured brain write such a thing for the public to read?

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• Kwame Ntim 12 years ago

  Dear Empty 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-up ...
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  Dear Empty 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?
  
  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!

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• Nipany3 12 years ago

  To 'dismember' yours truly. Ihope he can muster the courage to respond to your 'sucker punches' which have found the target. Over to you 'Prof',the ball is squarely in your court!

  To 'dismember' yours truly. Ihope he can muster the courage to respond to your 'sucker punches' which have found the target. Over to you 'Prof',the ball is squarely in your court!

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• Bernard 12 years ago

  Today, someone with superior brain power and bravery enough than Ahoofe has had him for breakfast. He's been stripped off naked and left with no dignity to salvage. Let's now wait for his silly response.
  
  Thank Mr. Ntim

  Today, someone with superior brain power and bravery enough than Ahoofe has had him for breakfast. He's been stripped off naked and left with no dignity to salvage. Let's now wait for his silly response.
  
  Thank Mr. Ntim

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• MENSAH ERNEST 12 years ago

  THIS GOVMENT DESERVE TO BE BLAMED MORE THAN NPP GOVMENT BECAUSE NDC IS SO CORRUPT AND MANY PEOPLE TAKES THAT ADVANTAGE TO BE IN THE PARTY.NPP HAVE OBJECTIVE FOR THIS COUNTRY BUT NDC NEEDS TO BE KILLED OUT FROM POWER THEY SHO ...
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  THIS GOVMENT DESERVE TO BE BLAMED MORE THAN NPP GOVMENT BECAUSE NDC IS SO CORRUPT AND MANY PEOPLE TAKES THAT ADVANTAGE TO BE IN THE PARTY.NPP HAVE OBJECTIVE FOR THIS COUNTRY BUT NDC NEEDS TO BE KILLED OUT FROM POWER THEY SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE

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• MENSAH ERNEST 12 years ago

  THIS GOVMENT DESERVE TO BE BLAMED MORE THAN NPP GOVMENT BECAUSE NDC IS SO CORRUPT AND MANY PEOPLE TAKES THAT ADVANTAGE TO BE IN THE PARTY.NPP HAVE OBJECTIVE FOR THIS COUNTRY BUT NDC NEEDS TO BE KILLED OUT FROM POWER THEY SHO ...
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  THIS GOVMENT DESERVE TO BE BLAMED MORE THAN NPP GOVMENT BECAUSE NDC IS SO CORRUPT AND MANY PEOPLE TAKES THAT ADVANTAGE TO BE IN THE PARTY.NPP HAVE OBJECTIVE FOR THIS COUNTRY BUT NDC NEEDS TO BE KILLED OUT FROM POWER THEY SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE

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