Kwasi Wiredu 1931 – 2022

Kwasi Wiredu was a Ghanaian philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary African analytic philosophy. Trained at Ghana and Oxford under Strawson, he taught for more than two decades at the University of Ghana before joining the University of South Florida, where he remained until his retirement. His Philosophy and an African Culture and Cultural Universals and Particulars argued for a careful conceptual decolonization of African philosophy and engaged Akan thought as a living philosophical resource. He developed a distinctive consensual model of democracy drawn from traditional Akan political practice and shaped the agenda of African philosophy for half a century.