Kwasi wiredu biography for kids
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Renowned Ghanaian Philosopher Kwasi Wiredu Passes on at 90
Professor Kwasi Wiredu, the renowned African philosopher and academic from Ghana, has passed on, aged 90.
Hailed as one of Africa’s greatest philosophers, Professor Wiredu’s work explored ideas on “logic, language, truth, personhood, ethics, and the nature of philosophy.” His writings argued for “conceptual decolonization” in African philosophy, while calling for the the inclusion of “folk knowledge from African culture” into philosophy.
Born in Kumasi in 1931, Wiredu attended the Anglican-run Adisadel College, where he first discovered philosophy through the works of Plato. Upon graduation in 1952, he enrolled in the University of Ghana, and later the University College, Oxford, earning a bachelors degree in Philosophy in 1960. After a brief position at the University College North Staffordshire, he returned to Ghana and took a position at his alma mater, where he would spend the next two decades lecturing in the depar
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Kwasi Wiredu
Ghanaian philosopher, writer and author (1931–2022)
Kwasi Wiredu (3 October 1931 – 6 January 2022) was a Ghanaian philosopher. Often called the greatest African philosopher of his generation, his work contributed to the conceptual decolonisation of African thought.[1][2][3][4]
Life and career
[edit]Wiredu was born in Kumasi, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), in 1931, and attended Adisadel College from 1948 to 1952. It was during this period that he discovered philosophy, through Plato (which weaned him from his interest in Practical Psychology) and Bertrand Russell. He gained a place at the University of Ghana, Legon. After graduating in 1958, he went to University College, Oxford to read for the B.Phil.[1][5]
At Oxford University, Wiredu was taught by Gilbert Ryle (his thesis supervisor), Peter Strawson (his College tutor), and Stuart Hampshire (his special tutor), and wrote a thesis on "Knowledge, Tr
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On 6 January, Africa lost another of its great thinkers when Ghana’s Professor Kwasi Wiredu died at the age of 90. He was among a very small number who made a major mark in the field of philosophy – a subject considered too advanced for Africans during the colonial days. He succeeded in lifting African traditional thought to the highest world levels during an outstanding career. Cameron Duodu pays tribute to a great son of Africa.
Kwasi Wiredu was one of a duo of brilliant philosophers who impressed President Kwame Nkrumah so much that he sent them to Germany to research the works of William Anton Amo (1703–c. 1759), a Ghanaian who became a well-known philosopher in Germany in the 18th century. The other half of the duo was William Abraham, the first African to be elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, where he studied for a B.Phil.
Abraham and Wiredu were classmates at Adisadel College, Cape Coast, and went to Oxford together after graduating from t