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    Obaasima: Ideal Woman: Please Assign This Manuscript to Mike Altman
    Obaasima: Ideal Woman: Please Assign This Manuscript to Mike Altman
    Obaasima: Ideal Woman: Please Assign This Manuscript to Mike Altman
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    Obaasima: Ideal Woman: Please Assign This Manuscript to Mike Altman

    By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 29, 2004
    ISBN9780595774555
    Obaasima: Ideal Woman: Please Assign This Manuscript to Mike Altman
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    Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.

    The first recipient of the 1988 John J. Reyne Artistic Achievement Award for English Poetry at New York City College, where he earned his bachelor?s degree (summa cum laude) in English, Communications and African-American Studies, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., was born and raised in Ghana. He teaches English and Journalism at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. A graduate with Master?s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Temple University, Philadelphia, Okoampa-Ahoofe regularly writes political and cultural columns for the Accra Daily Mail, Ghanaweb.com, Africa-Forum.Net, AfricaNewsAnalysis.com, as well as occasional book reviews and commentary for the New York Beacon and the Ghanaian Chronicle. He is married and has a daughter.

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      Obaasima - Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.

      DEDICATION 

      I dedicate this collection to Afua Asieduaa (a.k.a. Margaret Agyemang Duah) for whom it was written; to the memory and living spirit of my mother (Dorothy Tomina Adwoa Ataa Aninwaa Sintim Okoampa-Ahoofe, 1934-1998); to my dear wife Dolly (a.k.a. Doris Afua Oye Mensah); to my beloved daughter and my mother’s incarnation, Abena Aninwaa Okoampa-Ahoofe; to my three favorite nieces and nephew—Afua Birago; Abena and Nana Yaa Amoh; and Kwabena Boapea; Afua (Stacy) Opoku Atuahene and her elder sisters: Nana Frema, Ohemaa and Mamie Abrefa, a delightful company of youngsters; to the Sintim, Okoampa-Ahoofe and Agyemang Duah families, at home and abroad.

      Contents

      DEDICATION

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Akan-Ghanaian Glossary

      Afua Asieduaa

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      About the Author

      Criticai Praise For Okoampa-

      Ahoofe’s Poetry

      Acknowledgments 

      I am grateful to the following friends, colleagues and relatives who have made my working life and private existence quite worthwhile: Ralph and Linda Nazareth, Bruce Urquhart, Bernadine Brown, Marian Parish, Roberta Kramer, Sharon Leder, Michael Anzelone, Norman Spencer, Frances O’Connor, Harold Bellinger, Calvin Andrew, Kenneth Saunders, Alan Baxter, Abu S. and Naana Q. Abarry, Sammy Browne, Charles Owusu, Atta-Poku Agyemang, Godfried Asante, Kwadwo and Diana Owusu-Poku, Augusta Sampong and David Arkorful, Martin and Hilda Okwaning-Aboagye and Mike Altman, my Publishing Services Associate (PSA) at iUniverse, Inc., among a host of others.

      Introduction 

      Introductions are not my thing, as it were, especially where the object of such gesture is art itself. For after all, hasn’t it been said time without number that a picture bespeaks thousands of words. Except that sometimes the rhythmic art of pleonasm is all that one needs to get an interesting message across. This is not to imply that the poems—or one long but segmented poem—gathered herein are interesting; except, of course, if one reckoned the occasion of their birth. It

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