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Wiredu, Kwasi

LC control no.n 79102257
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Personal name headingWiredu, Kwasi
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Associated countryGhana
Birth date1931-10-03
Field of activityPostcolonial African philosophy
Philosophy Colonization--Philosophy
Profession or occupationPhilosophers Authors
Found inPhilosophy and an African culture, 1980: title page (Kwasi Wiredu; prof. of philos., Univ. of Ghana)
Cultural universals and particulars, 1996: CIP title page (Kwasi Wiredu) data sheet (b. 3 Oct. 1931)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed September 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Wiredu, Kwasi; philosopher; b. Oct. 3, 1931 in Ghana; institutionalized postcolonial African philosophy as an academic field of study; his work covers all areas of the discipline-epistemology, metaphysics, and moral, political, and social philosophy; explored historical viewpoints of certain concepts in the Akan language and culture and compared them with that of Western philosophical concepts; contributed enormously to the understanding of African philosophical conceptual schemes; inaugurated a new discursive strategy in African philosophy)
Associated languageeng