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News: February/March 2022

Leading African Philosopher Dies, Aged 90 • Socrates Jazz Opera Opens Off Broadway • Hegel Museum Installs Escape Room — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Kwasi Wiredu Has Died

The philosopher Kwasi Wiredu died on 6 January 2022, aged 90. Born in Kumasi in what is now Ghana, Wiredu studied philosophy at the University of Ghana, then at Oxford, where he was taught by Gilbert Ryle, Peter Strawson and Stuart Hampshire. He became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ghana and later at the University of South Florida. Wiredu also held several guest professorships in the United States and Nigeria.

Often referred to as the greatest African philosopher of his time, Wiredu analysed the concepts of truth and of the mind within the traditional Akan culture of West Africa, and was the author of books including Philosophy and an African Culture and Cultural Universals and Particulars.

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