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About the Book

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

About the Author

The first recipient of the 1988 John J. Reyne Artistic Achievement Award for English Poetry at New York City College, where he earned his bachelor?s degree (summa cum laude) in English, Communications and African-American Studies, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., was born and raised in Ghana. He teaches English and Journalism at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. A graduate with Master?s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Temple University, Philadelphia, Okoampa-Ahoofe regularly writes political and cultural columns for the Accra Daily Mail, Ghanaweb.com, Africa-Forum.Net, AfricaNewsAnalysis.com, as well as occasional book reviews and commentary for the New York Beacon and the Ghanaian Chronicle. He is married and has a daughter.