ODO YE 'Wu: Love Is Till Death: Love Is Till Death
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-Yusef Salaam, The New York Amsterdam News
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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ODO YE 'Wu - Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.
ODO YE ’WU
LOVE IS TILL DEATH
KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE, JR.
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ODO YE ’WU
LOVE IS TILL DEATH
Copyright © 2005 by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Seasonal Changes
A Woman’s Hair
Old Flame
Memories (Awo Boatemaa)
Feast of Earth
Old Flames and Haunts
A Matter of Love
Crisis
Jokes and Ghosts
Crape Song
The Smell
Familiarity
Lingering Shadows
Origin of Lust
Devotion
Sister Mwelwa
Lay off My Samba
Fiery Flames
Vercil (Beauty and Truth)
Walking and Chewing (All) at Once
No Place for Romance
I Will Not Be Fucked!
Roadside Motel
Armageddon
Songs
Outercourse
Tennille
Linette
Lucifer’s Sister
Sylvia Lewine
Indian Woman
Eve and Eve
Manhood
Janet
Janet II
Resolutions
Shipwreck
Recovery
House-cleaning
Crush
Annunciation
American Tsunami
Nicole D.
Debbie
Drilling
Quickie
End of Love
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For my wife:
Mama Afua Oye
(a.k.a. Dolly Doris Nyanyo-Mensah)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I should like to recognize the following relatives, friends and colleagues who have enriched my life, in various ways, over the years:
Drs. Nana and Abu S. Abarry, Rev.-Prof. Kofi Asare-Opoku, Messrs. Kwabena Akyeampong, William K. Egyir, Evans Kwaku Owusu Nyama, Kwaku Oduro and Mike Altman, my Publishing Services Associate at iUniverse, Inc.
Also: Dr. Harold Bellinger, Profs. Charles Owusu, Ralph Nazareth, Chris Schw-ertman and Joseph Dowling; Maame Yaa Adowaa and Opanyin Yaw Sarkodie; Mr. And Mrs. Kwasi and Serena Ohene, Mr. And Mrs. Walter and Miatta Smith; Profs. Nicholas Birns and Mary Boe Birns.
And: Adwoa Okoampa-Ahoofe and Dr. Kwame N. Amoh, Abena Y. and Eric Baning, Yaa A. and Frank Sykes and Samuel Odoi-Sykes II, Helen Amoako-Opoku, Frederick Asare-Henaku, Obaapanyin Grace Ofosuaa-Henaku, DSP (Rtd.) Kwame Henaku, Mr. Richard Nyanyo-Mensah and Mrs. Comfort Nyanyo-Mensah, Chief-Inspector Chenard Kwame Sintim-Aboagye, Grace Sin-tim-Aboagye, Rosemund Ahene, Kurt Bromley Sintim, Rev.-Col. (Rtd.) E. B. B. Sintim and Mrs. Beatrice O. A. Sintim.
INTRODUCTION
This book, like all of its predecessors, is a labor of love; it, however, differs strik-ingly from its predecessors in that OdoYe ’Wu: Love Is Till Death highlights the grave conjugal undertaking that is the essence of the well-considered, and well-thought-out, marriage. It is, thus, a cautionary note to those intent on con-jugal embarkation.