Ghana: Obituary of Prof Kwasi Wiredu, 'The Philosopher's Philosopher'

18 January 2022

Professor Kwasi Wiredu, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida, who died in January 2022 at the age of 90, was born in Kumase on 3 October 1931.

His close friend classmate and fellow philosopher, the great Prof. William Abraham (author of The Mind of Africa andthe first African to become a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) once saluted Wiredu as "a true intellectual and moral giant, son of Africa."

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