SOUNDS OF SIRENS

About the Book

Sounds of Sirens: Essays in African Politics & Culture critically examines the political and cultural landscape of the putatively primal continent since the advent of the post-colonial era. It is a scholarly but non-academic critique, thus rendering its contents readily accessible to the general reader. In the final analysis, Okoampa-Ahoofe concludes that there is an urgent need for altruistic and constructive leadership on the continent, in order to promptly lift Africa out of the raging morass of abject materialism and crass corruption in official circles.

About the Author

Winner of the 1999 Best Essay Award by the Nassau Review for his controversial essay ?When Human Dignity is Besieged: An Afrocentric Critique of the Diary of Anne Frank,? Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., was born and raised in Ghana. He is also an award-winning poet who has published seven volumes of poetry. A graduate with master?s and doctor of philosophy degrees from Temple University, Philadelphia, Okoampa-Ahoofe teaches English and Journalism at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He has also taught Global African History at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York, and at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. As a pet avocation Okoampa-Ahoofe writes weekly political and cultural columns, as well as occasional book reviews, for The New York Beacon.