Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe

The renowned Hellenic-Classicist Denise McCoskey is smack on target, when the affiliate of Black World Studies at the University of Miami emphatically asserts that the Ancient Greeks - and I suppose Contemporary Greeks as well - would have been more flabbergasted to envisage or perceive the epic role of Helen-of-Troy played by an English-speaking blonde, than have the same played by an Indigenous Continental African Woman like the legendary Mexican-born Kenyan actor (or actress, the Dear Reader may choose their pick) Lupita Nyang'o of the movie “Twelve Years a Slave” fame (See “Elon Musk Is Furious that Lupita Nyang'o Is Playing Helen of Troy. I Asked a Classicist How She really Looked” Slate 7/17/26).

The videoclip was dispatched to me via the platform of my Asante-Juaben elder relative by the name of Asonaba Said Kwasi Adu, a professionally trained doctor of homeopathy, and it is narrated by M C Ishmael. The subject of the videoclip is one that is patently pedestrian and nauseatingly Ghanaian in both rampancy and its perennially routine and cyclically obtuse and scandalously verging on primitive bestiality and politically and ideologically self-defeating, if also because it rancidly reeks of the sort of chuckleheaded and mischief-making game of musical chairs of the kind that most of Ghanaian-born and raised adults of this author's age, that is, the children and the youths of the 1960s and the 1970s grew up playing on moonlit nights. Which means that it has been with us for as long as any of us can remember in the post-independence or the postcolonial era.

Until Yours Truly chanced across a news bulletin captioned “Jacinta Ngobese Fires Back at President Mahama Over Comments on Xenophobia” ( Ghanaweb.com 7/24/26), he had never heard the name of Ms.

If, indeed, it is true that Foggy Bottom or the United States' Department of State, the equivalent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in most

If all that he really wanted to tell Ghanaians on the 14th Commemorative Anniversary of the seismic, the epochal and the ldquo;mysterious rdquo; passing of a then-Incumbent President John Evans Atta-Mills, was that he had been studiously treading in the ldquo;footprints rdquo; - he was actually quoted to have said ldquo;The Footsteps rdquo; - of the man who brazenly looked Ghanaians smack in the eye and straight up and smugly lied to us about Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome rsquo;s having been liter

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