Kwame Gyekye

Kwame Gyekye

human

Sex anaa gender	male
Country wey e be citizen	Ghana
Name in native language	Kwame Gyekye
Given name	Kwame
Family name	Gyekye
Date of birth	10 November 1939
Place dem born am	Ghana
Date of death	13 April 2019
Languages dem dey speak, wrep anaa sign	English, Akan
Occupation	philosopher, university teacher
Field for work	Philosophy
Employer	Temple University, University of Ghana, University of Florida, Howard University, University of Pennsylvania
Position dem hold	chairman of the executive board
Educate for	Harvard University, University of Ghana, Akuafo Hall, Mfantsipim School
Work location	Accra
Member of	Graphic Communications Group Limited
Award dem receive	Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

Kwame Gyekye (10 November 1939 – 13 April 2019) be Ghanaian philosopher, den person wey be important for de development of modern African philosophy. Na Gyegye be emeritus professor of Philosophy for University of Ghana, den Visiting Professor of Philosophy den African-American studies for Temple University. He be known for ein theory de concept of person-hood for de basis of Akan cultural paradigm top plus ein debate plus Kwasi Wiredu, wey dem dey see am as one of de defining moments of modern African philosophy.

Ein education

He go Mfantsipim School. First nu na Gyekye study for University of Ghana, wey he go Harvard University, wer he obtain ein Ph.D. plus thesis for Græco–Arabic philosophy. He be Fellow for de Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center give Scholars, wey he be life-time Fellow for de Ghana Academy of Arts den Sciences.

Bibliography

• 1975: "Philosophical relevance of Akan proverbs" (Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy 4:2, pp. 45–53)
• 1977: "Akan language and the materialism thesis: a short essay on the relations between philosophy and language" (Studies in Language 1:1, pp 237 44)
• 1978: "Akan concept of a person" (International Philosophical Quarterly 18:3, pp. 277–87)
• 1987: An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme
  • (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
  • 1995: revised edition (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) ISBN 1-56639-380-9
• 1988: The Unexamined Life: Philosophy and the African Experience (Ghana Universities Press)
• 1991: "Man as a moral subject: the perspective of an African philosophical anthropology" in The Quest for Man: The Topicality of Philosophical Anthropology, ed. Joris van Nispens & Douwe Tiemersma (Assen/Maastricht, Netherlands: VanGorcum)
• 1992a: (ed. Gyekye & Kwasi Wiredu) Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies 1 (Washington D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy)
• 1992b: "Person and Community" in 1992a
• 1992c: "Traditional political ideas and values" in 1992a
• 1995: "Aspects of African communitarian thought" (The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities)

Secondary literature

• "A Defense of Kwame Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism", Kibujjo M. Kalumba, Philosophical Papers Volume 49, 2020 - Issue 1.
• "Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye", George Kotei Neequaye, The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics.
• "The apparent conflict of transcendentalism and immanentism In Kwame Gyekye And Kwasi Wiredu's interpretation of the Akan concept of God", Ada Agada, Filosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions 6(1):23-38
• A Critical Exposition of Kwame Gyekye's Communitarianism, O. S. Mwimnobi, Master of Arts thesis submitted in the University of South Africa (2003).