Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe

Contrary to what the Deputy Director of Elections and Information Technology (EIT) for Ghana rsquo;s presently ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Rashid Tanko Computer - not sure ldquo;Computer rdquo; is really his last name - would have the rest of his country believe, the August 6, 2026 strategically orchestrated Faux-Commemoration of the ldquo;Mysterious rdquo; Helicopter Conflagration of and the Bonfire Barbecuing of the Two Senior Cabinet Members of the Mahama Government and s

The incident that forms the basis of this ldquo;write-up, rdquo; in local Ghanaian speak or parlance, occurred last November, 2025, at Hofstra University, a privately owned and operated tertiary academy in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, that was once a fledgling subsidiary or adjunct of the globally renowned and highly respected New York University (NYU), an elite but community-oriented and socially responsible academy which two of the three sisters of this author attended and graduated from

The caption of the present article or column was not originally the thematically intended purpose of our present conversation. But since I have increasingly come to the ultimately singular and the unique conclusion that so incorrigibly wicked are the ways of the kleptocratic and the nation-wrecking leadership of the John “God In His Inscrutable Wisdom” Dramani Mahama-led Government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), I just decided that the present headline might just purposively do for the subject-matter presently at hand. In one of my most recent columns, in the heat of rushing to meet the deadline for the publication of the same, I made the critical blunder of “Mis-Accolading” His Excellency Kwame Gonja with an off-key sobriquet; and for such an egregious error or miscalculation, I hereby profoundly apologize for the same.

It is only those cynically fanatic adherents of the self-delusional ideology of “American Exceptionalism,” strikingly and dangerously akin to the apparently intractable pathology of “White Supremacy,” presently recognized as the primitively savage ideology of “Make America Great Again,” the latter itself, a veritable corollary of Proto-Nazism, that ought to be roundly condemned for so facilely and cavalierly supposing that the apocalyptic events of September 11, 2001, occurred totally out of the metaphorical “Blue” or completely in a vacuum, as it were (See “Mamdani Faces Growing 9/11 Backlash As Old Post Resurfaces Ahead of Ground -Zero Ceremony: ‘Is This Real?'” FOX News 9/4/26).

I have said it, times without number, that even given two decades at Jubilee House, President John ldquo;Ford Expedition Payola rdquo; Dramani Mahama would not be able to come up any socioeconomic and politically progressive ideas for the direly needed development of Our Beloved Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana. Once again, Yours Truly could not help but literally fall off his chair and have his chair fall over him, when just a couple, or so, days ago, he came a cross a brief news report

The assertion, coming in the wake of the apparent suicide death of the British and Ghanaian-descended Cambridge University Scholar and Professor of the Sociology of Education, that the then 39-year-old Mr. Jason Arday had been hired by the University solely and purely on the basis of ethnicity or racial background, rather than primarily on merit or on the basis of proven intellectual and academic competence and worthwhile pedagogical/andragogical productivity, by renowned Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins, has always been widely known in both the United Kingdom (UK) and right here in the United States of America (USA) for quite a considerably while (See “Patronizing Condescension” in “Cambridge Chancellor: We Must Uphold Academic Integrity in Wake of Arday Tragedy” Telegraph 8/19/26).

While it cannot be pregnably gainsaid that the Chancellor of Cambridge, Lord Smith of Finsbury, is dead-on-target when the veteran and culturally progressive Member of the British House of Lords - aka Sir Christopher Robert Smith - poignantly observes the imperative need for the Jason Arday Tragedy not be used as either a cheap shot or a lightning rod by cynical and pathologically racist academics and politicians to avoid effectively addressing the indispensable need to ensure the prevalence of racial and cultural diversity among the staff and the faculty of the British Academy as a whole, but especially at the elite and flagship academies, as a salutary means of ensuring the existence of a wholesome and a civilized British Society.

In all the hullabaloo that ricocheted and reverberated around the world, what does not seem to have been directly, constructively and progressively addressed is the fact that the Jason Arday Tragedy is far more about the admittedly critical problem of Academic Qualification and Competence than the mere or the sheer incidence of academic dishonesty. In other words, the question of whether, indeed, the late Ghanaian-descended former Professor of Britain's Cambridge University, one of the two oldest and foremost tertiary academies in the entire erstwhile British Empire, presently strategically redesignated as The Commonwealth of Former British Colonies, Possessions and Protectorates - the Dear Reader may choose his or her pick - and the youngest Black Professor ever hired by the globally celebrated Oxbridge Conglomerate of the Most-Selective Elite Academies in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, produced academic work that was thoroughly riddled with “Plagiarized Material” from a significant number of more experienced and seasoned and far better and/or more competent scholars in the late Professor Arday's disciplinary or subdisciplinary field of the Sociology of Education was, to be certain, only the surface and the most superficial aspect of the problem.

I am almost cocksure that he is blatantly lying through his clinically determined“Goro”-stained oversized teeth - and by the way, “Goro” is a local Ghanaian term for kolanuts - when President John “Yagbonwura Kwame Gonja” Dramani Mahama asserts that he absolutely has no personal or intimate knowledge of Mr. Kevin Baidoo Taylor, the infamous Washington, DC-based rabidly Anti-New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Anti-Akufo-Addo journalist - formerly based in Ghana - presently turned Passionately Pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) Propaganda Podcaster of the oxymoronic program named or titled “Loud Silence.”

In the stereotypical case of Dr. John Thomas, already alluded to in the previous segment of our series, the intellectual and the professional competence of the eventual candidate selected and appointed to teach African American Literature in the English Department by the flagrantly condescending “Sanhedrin” dons at the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY of CUNY) was not the prime aim or the objective here. Rather, it was primarily and doggedly about the religious pursuit of the canonical mantra of “Just About Any Nigger Will Do.”