Paa: A Tribute

About the Book

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.

About the Author

Winner 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, Journalism 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 writes weekly political and cultural columns, as well as occasional book reviews, for The New York Beacon.