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.

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 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.

"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.

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

"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.

"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.

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.

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"

"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 Trade to have been the primary product of Western Europe's industrial revolution.

Praise for Okoampa-Ahoofe's Work:

"Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe's analyses always expand the frontiers of our knowledge. He challenges what is taken for granted and in the process pushes us to reflect critically on...