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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 in...
Kwasi Wiredu was a philosopher from Ghana, who had for decades been involved with a project he termed “conceptual decolonization” in contemporary African systems of thought.
Dr. Wiredu argued for an understanding of African concepts of the person and mind that respected them as genuinely philosophical ideas and alternatives to Western ones rather than anthropological curiosities.
Prof. Wiredu remained at the University of Ghana until 1984, when he joined the Department of Philosophy in University of South Florida as Professor. From 1987 until his death, he remained Emeritus Professor at this U...
Jun 25, 2023 · 主要著作包括《哲学与非洲文化》（1980）、《个人与社区：加纳哲学研究》（1992）、《文化的共性与细节：非洲视角》（1996），从7个方面汇集了各种观点，即非洲哲学史，方法论问题，逻辑、认识论和形而上学，宗教的哲学，伦理和美学，政治学，以及其他 ...
Feb 11, 2022 · Kwasi Wiredu (1958, B.Phil), often called the greatest living African philosopher, passed away on 5 January 2022. Wiredu is most well-known for advocating for the decolonisation of African philosophy an...
While recognising the central roles precolonial African cultures have towards the development of African philosophy, Wiredu maintains that African folk-beliefs and world views must be treated as heritages for the prac...
Kwasi Wiredu (3 October 1931 – 6 January 2022) was a Ghanaian philosopher whose work centered on advancing African philosophy through "conceptual decolonization," a methodical critique of Western philosophical imports...
Feb 22, 2022 · The death of Professor Kwasi Wiredu has created a deep lacuna in the world’s intellectual heritage that will take a long time to fill. He will be greatly missed both by his own and others.
Wiredu takes issue with Europeans elevating the traditional folk beliefs of Africans to the status of philosophy, which historically has been used to justify and legitimise the racist belief in the inferiority of blac...
