When we boast of this kind of “intellectuals”

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• Justice 12 years ago

  in the Same soup

  in the Same soup

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• Nii Tettey Mettle 12 years ago

  OKOAMPA ASKE AKANS TO KILLED GAS AND EWES. THE MAN IS AN UGLY HATE-FILLED COWARD. PLS DONT WASTE UR TIME ON THIS IGNORAMUS.

  OKOAMPA ASKE AKANS TO KILLED GAS AND EWES. THE MAN IS AN UGLY HATE-FILLED COWARD. PLS DONT WASTE UR TIME ON THIS IGNORAMUS.

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• Kwesi Odoom 12 years ago

  Since when did Okoampa become an intellectual? The guy is as dumb as an ox.

  Since when did Okoampa become an intellectual? The guy is as dumb as an ox.

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• Yaw 12 years ago

  Tony, you have responded appropriately to somebody who claims he has a PhD and always flaunting before anybody. I think he is suffering from the sickness of inferioty comples. He thinks America is heaven and the last time he ...
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  Tony, you have responded appropriately to somebody who claims he has a PhD and always flaunting before anybody. I think he is suffering from the sickness of inferioty comples. He thinks America is heaven and the last time he was rating the Voice of America as the number one radio station in the world. His quick association with Nelson Mandela is appalling to say the least.He always writes in circles and thinks that is intellectualism.If people like him continue to be the frontline communicators of Akufo Addo, then the latter would continue to be in the political wilderness till thy kingdom come

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• Charle 12 years ago

  There are African intellectuals who are respected by their peers in America. Okoampa is not one of them. He teaches in a JSS/SSS and and believes he is king in tht Ghnaian commuity. Ghanaweb is the only place where he has a v ...
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  There are African intellectuals who are respected by their peers in America. Okoampa is not one of them. He teaches in a JSS/SSS and and believes he is king in tht Ghnaian commuity. Ghanaweb is the only place where he has a voice. Elsewhere in the intellectual world, Okompa is zero, nothing, nada. This is part of his inferiority complex.

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• Kwadwo 12 years ago

  From your arguments, it sounds like you are as immature as a college frat boy after a weekend of bing drinking. If you afraid of getting your feelings hurt, don't engage a prolific writer like Kwame.

  From your arguments, it sounds like you are as immature as a college frat boy after a weekend of bing drinking. If you afraid of getting your feelings hurt, don't engage a prolific writer like Kwame.

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• pink sheet president 12 years ago

  Kwadwo,
  Are you one of those who worship okoampah and his useless articles ? Then tell hin to stop having sexual encounters with women in the bush.It is un-Ghanaian.Animals would not even do that.

  Kwadwo,
  Are you one of those who worship okoampah and his useless articles ? Then tell hin to stop having sexual encounters with women in the bush.It is un-Ghanaian.Animals would not even do that.

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• Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

  It is only for those with small minds to stand down when Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Margaret Jackson and or Rockson Adofo speak or write but there are more of us with sanity and wisdom. Ghana is backwards be ...
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  It is only for those with small minds to stand down when Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Margaret Jackson and or Rockson Adofo speak or write but there are more of us with sanity and wisdom. Ghana is backwards because its majority under-educated souls allow the few with infantile abrasive provoking personalities with doctorate degrees in meaningless subjects to assert themselves as intellectuals.
  Ghana cannot develop under their collective disciplines of study yet Ghana continues to equate doctorate degrees with wisdom while we continue to fight over who was the greatest Ghanaian and or tribe. If the fight is about the greatest tribe and or politician that ever roamed Ghana's bush lands then we lost long ago because most Ghanaians continue to use outhouses while these "intellectuals" enjoy indoor plumbing and pipe/tap water in civilized nations.

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• Glandular, Surrey 12 years ago

  Well done Tony! You made my day!
  But please, write a book - your sense of humor, your style and everything will make you most readable. Thank you!!

  Well done Tony! You made my day!
  But please, write a book - your sense of humor, your style and everything will make you most readable. Thank you!!

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• Frank Twumasi 12 years ago

  Tony,you are too a human being to be responding to primitive species/ animal like Okoampah.Why waste your precious time on such nonentity stupd fool? Isn´t it suprising? Is it a joke to boast of having sex with somebody´s m ...
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  Tony,you are too a human being to be responding to primitive species/ animal like Okoampah.Why waste your precious time on such nonentity stupd fool? Isn´t it suprising? Is it a joke to boast of having sex with somebody´s mother in the bush? And he said is a professor! Good gracious! This is the thing waiting to become a minister or so,should his cousin or whatever he is to him, becomes the president of this country. You see, majority of we Ghanaians have no problem per se with Nana Akufo Addo becomig president of this ccountry, but those idiots and lunatics like this Ahoofe and others who may be part of his government is the reason why we shall do everything possible to prevent him from becoming president.It is not this fooish and irresponsible Ahoofe alone.There are hundreds of them there.
  I am very sorry for the Ewe woman who has given himself to this bush dog called Ahoofe,even with all the insults against the Ewes. I can only believe that the woman has nowhere to go.A grown up who refused to grow up.You had sex with somebody´s mother in the bush! And you are happy saying that! And you called yourself a human being!And you want your Akufo Addo to become president so that you can be part of his government with such dubious character foooool of tribalism.The end of you and your irks like Mensama Akadu will be terrible.Reason you foolish grwon up idiot!

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• Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

  I don't know why people thing that they are right and someone is wrong when they are just trading opposite opinons! I don't like everything Okoampa says, but he is bold and fearless and that is what Ghana needs!

  I don't know why people thing that they are right and someone is wrong when they are just trading opposite opinons! I don't like everything Okoampa says, but he is bold and fearless and that is what Ghana needs!

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• Nii Tettey Mettle 12 years ago

  OKOAMPA IS NOT BOLD AND FEARLESS. HE IS A TRIBAL BIGOT. LUMPING A WHOLW TRIBE OR ETHNIC GROUP TOGETHER AND HATING ON THEM IS NOT BOLD AND FEARLESS, IT IS SPINELESS AND IGNORANT.
  
  THERE IS NOTHING BOLD AND FEARLESS ABOUT THE ...
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  OKOAMPA IS NOT BOLD AND FEARLESS. HE IS A TRIBAL BIGOT. LUMPING A WHOLW TRIBE OR ETHNIC GROUP TOGETHER AND HATING ON THEM IS NOT BOLD AND FEARLESS, IT IS SPINELESS AND IGNORANT.
  
  THERE IS NOTHING BOLD AND FEARLESS ABOUT THE KKK OR THE NEO-NAZIS OR ALQAEDA. THESE ARE HATERS WHO SPEW BILE BECAUSE THEY CANNOT ADDRESS THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL DEMONS.
  
  GHANA DOES NOT NEED COWARDS LIKE OKOAMPA. WHEN KEN AGYAPONG CALLED FOR AKANS TO KILL GAS AND EWES, OKOAMPA SUPPORTED HIS CALL. IS THIS COURAGE? GHANA NEED PEOPLE LIKE THIS?
  
  MADIBA JUST LEFT US. HE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT I CALL BOLD AND COURAGEOUS.
  
  OKOAMPA IS NOTHING BUT A SPINELESS COWARD.

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• Kwesi Odoom 12 years ago

  , but he is bold and fearless and that is what Ghana needs!
  
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  Ghana needs tribal idiots? Ghane needs divisive bigots? Are you praying for civil war or something? OKoampa does not speak his ...
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  , but he is bold and fearless and that is what Ghana needs!
  
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  Ghana needs tribal idiots? Ghane needs divisive bigots? Are you praying for civil war or something? OKoampa does not speak his mind, he speaks from a place of hatred and that is not bravery. When you are infested with hatred you have no curage . You are blind, like Dr King said. Okoampa is a dangerous person.

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• Paa Joe 12 years ago

  WHO IS AN INTELLECTUAL AND WHAT ROLE DOES HE PLAY IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF A COUNTRY.
  
  INTELLECTUALS IN THE MIDST OF UNDERDEVELOMENT AND EXTREME POVERTY IN GHANA.
  
  WE MUST FIRST QUESTION WHAT WE HAVE ACH ...
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  WHO IS AN INTELLECTUAL AND WHAT ROLE DOES HE PLAY IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF A COUNTRY.
  
  INTELLECTUALS IN THE MIDST OF UNDERDEVELOMENT AND EXTREME POVERTY IN GHANA.
  
  WE MUST FIRST QUESTION WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED WITH OUR SO CALLED ACCUMULATED TITLES ACQUIRED AT HOME AND ABROAD BEFORE BEING NOISY WITH THEM.

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• Ntsiful 12 years ago

  What an idiot. What did u want Okoampa to do after attacking him without any provocation from him. Go fucck yourself and momma.
  
  If you were brought up by wise parents, they would have counselled you to pick up fights you c ...
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  What an idiot. What did u want Okoampa to do after attacking him without any provocation from him. Go fucck yourself and momma.
  
  If you were brought up by wise parents, they would have counselled you to pick up fights you can win. Or, as a monkey, they would have advised you to play with your size.
  
  I don't like Okoampa one bit, but I dislike the attitude of some of you NDC members who think you have constitutional and God's right to attack others without being paid back with your own coin.
  
  Kwasia...don't start a fight in cyber space if you are afraid of insults...

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• Adjeteyfio 12 years ago

  What an idiot. What did u want Okoampa to do after attacking him without any provocation from him. Go fucck yourself and momma.
  
  AHA ! I CAN BET MY LAST DOLLAR, U R OKOAMPA, THE BIGOT AND RABID TRIBALIST.

  What an idiot. What did u want Okoampa to do after attacking him without any provocation from him. Go fucck yourself and momma.
  
  AHA ! I CAN BET MY LAST DOLLAR, U R OKOAMPA, THE BIGOT AND RABID TRIBALIST.

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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.

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