My Madiba Moment - Part 6

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• insight to the bone 12 years ago

  ah well, to each their own...this sick guy is still churning out his garbage...that no-one reads but love to comment on...showering insults...oko, you made your bed-enjoy! as for me, I didnt even read the article...I hope thi ...
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  ah well, to each their own...this sick guy is still churning out his garbage...that no-one reads but love to comment on...showering insults...oko, you made your bed-enjoy! as for me, I didnt even read the article...I hope this stench you have created for yourself does not follow your loved ones...hmmm npp stooge!

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• Kwame Ntim 12 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 ...
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  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!

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• Mark (UK) 12 years ago

  Kwame, your name sake is on ego trip again, couldn't help telling the world what good marks he got in class. This particular article is all about Okoampa's grades when doing his under-grad studies. What a sad guy.

  Kwame, your name sake is on ego trip again, couldn't help telling the world what good marks he got in class. This particular article is all about Okoampa's grades when doing his under-grad studies. What a sad guy.

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• YAW 12 years ago

  Okoampa Ahoofe,has nothing important to say...trouble is,we have to read all these idiotic and useless articles riddled with archaic English words just to find out. NCC should have put a brighter head on their matchstick.

  Okoampa Ahoofe,has nothing important to say...trouble is,we have to read all these idiotic and useless articles riddled with archaic English words just to find out. NCC should have put a brighter head on their matchstick.

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• Francis C. Quainoo 12 years ago

  Kwame Okoampa-Ahofe, glad to say you have always made your mark on the international stage and you'll NEVER be forgotten on your achievements and struggles for the Liberation of our African Continent.
  
  Arguably, there are I ...
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  Kwame Okoampa-Ahofe, glad to say you have always made your mark on the international stage and you'll NEVER be forgotten on your achievements and struggles for the Liberation of our African Continent.
  
  Arguably, there are IDIOTS on this fora who may die with their ENVY after realising they may NOT get to the bottom of your achievements.
  
  KEEP STAYING ALIVE AND KICKING!!!!
  
  Best Regards,
  
  Francis C. Quainoo
  Western Australia

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• YAW 12 years ago

  KWAME ,GENIUS! SURELY NOT IN THE STRICTEST SENSE OF THE WORD.

  KWAME ,GENIUS! SURELY NOT IN THE STRICTEST SENSE OF THE WORD.

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• Frank Appiah 12 years ago

  This Western Australian man must be dreaming.Who doesn't know that Ahoofe is an IDIOT?

  This Western Australian man must be dreaming.Who doesn't know that Ahoofe is an IDIOT?

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• Dungeon Master 12 years ago

  Long time no see on ghanaweb. By the way, your comment is dead on accurate. That envious twerp, a ghanaweb columnist who is masquerading as kwame ntim, does not even know the distinction between writing for a peer-review jour ...
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  Long time no see on ghanaweb. By the way, your comment is dead on accurate. That envious twerp, a ghanaweb columnist who is masquerading as kwame ntim, does not even know the distinction between writing for a peer-review journal versus a cyber publication like ghanaweb. I advised Dr. Okoampa here on ghanaweb to treat his type as flies flocking to his excrement. Why the crazy fascination with Dr. Okoampa, I don't know. Why he goes that extra mile to ask others about Okoampa, some one he claims he does not respect, is beyond me. He is fascinated with Okoampa. Period. He is all talk, I told him the other time becaus I can see through the masquerade to the fellow behind it. That attention seeker should provide us with a phd if he has one, or a book if he has published one. He has neither, trust me. Don't pay anymore attention to that groupie.

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• KOFI 12 years ago

  Okoampa, has a phd in sophism which is of no use to any Ghanaian.Kwame Ntim never claimed to be phd holder.Get your facts right.

  Okoampa, has a phd in sophism which is of no use to any Ghanaian.Kwame Ntim never claimed to be phd holder.Get your facts right.

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• Dungeon Master 12 years ago

  Groupie, how did you get to know about Okoampa's background in Black Studies if you weren't/aren't trying to do the same? This is the last time I will respond to you. Get a life and rid yourself of that virulent strain of jea ...
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  Groupie, how did you get to know about Okoampa's background in Black Studies if you weren't/aren't trying to do the same? This is the last time I will respond to you. Get a life and rid yourself of that virulent strain of jealousy.

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• Mr. Wisdom Abodakpi 12 years ago

  Hi Mr. Francis C. Quainoo,
  
  Your name sounds like a classmate of mine--Mfantsipim, 1974-1979. Did you go to Mfantsipim? The Quainoo I know was a Fanti, a nice guy.
  
  Anyway, I live in Queensland. I have been living here si ...
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  Hi Mr. Francis C. Quainoo,
  
  Your name sounds like a classmate of mine--Mfantsipim, 1974-1979. Did you go to Mfantsipim? The Quainoo I know was a Fanti, a nice guy.
  
  Anyway, I live in Queensland. I have been living here since the early 1980s. It's interesting you mention the US professor, Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe.
  
  He's a brilliant writer though he's not known in Australia. Googling him does not reveal much. It does not sound like he's a known figure in the US.
  
  However, most Ghanaian scholars in the US have a lot of useful information on them when googled. Not so with Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe. This is unfortunate.
  
  Most Ghanaian scholars in Australia who don't read Ghanaweb happen yo know him either. His work, if he has any, is not published in any of the African (or Australian) journals here in Australia. He's not known in African studies, like African literature or politics, here in Australia. Courses on European or American studies don't mention him either.
  
  Could you review his work on Ghanaweb for those of us who, thanks to Ghanaweb, know we have such a brilliant writer in our midst?
  
  Because most African writers/scholars whom I regularly interact with at conferences in Australia know next to nothing about this US professor.
  
  In fact, most have not heard of him or his work. One or two intellectuals among my friends here in Australia know him only through Ghanaweb.
  
  Wole Soyinka, Kofi Awoonor, Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ben Okri, etc., are household names in this part of our world.
  
  And please if you know of any journals in Australia which publishes his work, then let me know. I am interested.
  
  You are also saying Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe has done a lot in the international field for Africa? Could you elaborate? Could you give us references? Could you tell us exactly what he has done in liberating the continent? Has he published any of these in books, and, if so, give us titles so that those of us who love him can read them? Was he a guerilla or freedom fighter like Mugabe? In fact, who is he?
  
  I hope your answres will shed more light on this reclusive US profesor.
  
  I look forward to your response.
  
  My nickname was Melos Boggie.
  
  Thanks.

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