Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe: 12 books

The New Scapegoats: Colored-On-Black Racism debunks the widespread and seemingly indelible myth of Africa's blind and facile complicity in the massive uprootment and enslavement of its own in the Americas between the Fifteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates the Transatlantic Slave...

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...

Critical 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 thought, chiseling and re-chiseling to get to the right meaning, tone, color, etc " -Yusef Salaam, The New York Amsterdam News

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

In this lyrical volume of poetry, Okoampa-Ahoofe joyously celebrates the magnificent and splendid diversity of global womanhood. It is a sumptuous, musical feast of our common humanity.

In this threnodic and filial homage to his late mother, Okoampa-Ahoofe wistfully depicts the matriarch as an all-pervading spirit of boundless generosity and warmth. It is a solemn and loving conversation between the poet and his creator-mother and esthetic muse.

In Atumpan: Drum-Talk, Okoampa-Ahoofe evokes the primal and visceral essence of rhythm in words. The poetic voice captured in this ebullient anthology is at once poignant and perfusive.

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...

PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK: "Highly educative! Dr. J. B. Danquah: Architect of Modern Ghana brings early post-colonial Ghanaian politics full circle, the way it ought to be. Indeed, it is most appropriate that the Doyen of the Ghanaian independence movement should get this treatment at a time...

Obaasima: Ideal Woman exults in the beauty of romance and womanhood. The poet pays homage to a lady who once captured, for him, the essence of reciprocal love. It is an unforgettable feast of the psyche.

Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune explores the complexities of human existence. It highlights the lability or existential lack of constancy in fortunes.

Ama Sefa: Unrequited Love celebrates attempted love and the challenging emotional complexities involved in the art of loving and being loved. It is at once passionate, exciting and harrowing.