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Africa
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Birth Date
1931
Death Date
2022
Birthplace
Kumasi, Ghana
Primary Sources
Wiredu,<i> </i>K. (2007). The Need for Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy, in Ramose, M.B and Boatamo Mosupyoe. B. (eds.), <i>The Development of Thought in Pan Africanism</i>, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 76–82.<br /><br />Wiredu, K. (2006). (Ed.). <i>A Companian to African Philosopher, </i>Wiley, Blackwell. <br /><a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+African+Philosophy-p-9781405145671 ">https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+African+Philosophy-p-9781405145671 </a><br /><br />Wiredu, K. (2001). Tradition, democracy and political legitimacy in contemporary Africa, In Kurimoto Eisei, K. (Ed)<i> Rewriting Africa: toward renaissance or collapse? </i>Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies, 161-172<br /><br />Wiredu, K. (1997). The need for conceptual decolonization in African philosophy." In <i>Philosophy and Democracy in intercultural Perspective/Philosophie et démocratie en perspective interculturelle</i>, pp. 11-22. Brill.<br /><br />Wiredu, K. (1996). <i>Cultural Universals and Particulars : an African perspective,</i> Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. <br /><a href="https://iupress.org/9780253210807/cultural-universals-and-particulars/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://iupress.org/9780253210807/cultural-universals-and-particulars/</a><br /><br />Wiredu, K. (1995). <i>Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy: Four Essay</i>. <i>Ibadan:</i> Hope Publication.<br /><br />Wiredu, K. (1990). An Akan perspective on human rights, In An-Naim., A.A, Deng, F.M.,(Eds) <i>Human rights in Africa: cross-cultural perspectives,</i> Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 243-260.<br /><br />Wiredu, K. (1983). The Akan Concept of Mind, Ibadan: <i>Journal of Humanistic Studies</i>, 3.<br /><br />Wiredu, K. (1980).<i> Philosophy and an African Culture</i>, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Secondary Sources
<p><span>Burley, M. (2025). Conceptual Decolonization, Conceptual Justice, and Religious Concepts, </span><em>Mind</em><span>, 134 (533), 60–84. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzae053" data-google-interstitial="false">https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzae053</a><br /><br />Molefe, M., & Allsobrook, C. (2018). Editorial: African Philosophy and Rights. <em>Theoria: A Journal of Social & Political Theory</em>, 65(157), v–vii. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2018.6515701">https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2018.6515701</a><br /><br /></p>
<p>Eze, M. O., & Metz, T. (2015). Emergent Issues in <br />African Philosophy: A Dialogue with Kwasi Wiredu. <br /><em>Philosophia Africana</em>, 17(2), 75–87.<br /><br />Osha, S. (2005). <em>Kwasi Wiredu and beyond: <br />The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa.</em> <br />Dakar, Seegal: Codeseria, <a href="https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.228">https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.228</a></p>
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Extra Resources
Osha, S.(2022). Kwasi Wiredu and the question of decolonisation. 20 Oct, <em>HUMA Institute for Humanities in Africa,</em> The University of Cape Town: Doctoral Seminar Series, Accessed Dec 10 2022, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbdk5rqmMm0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbdk5rqmMm0</a><br /><br />Osha, S. "Kwasi Wiredu", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (n.d). Accessed Dec 10 2022.<br /><a href="https://iep.utm.edu/wiredu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://iep.utm.edu/wiredu/</a>.<br /><br />Osha, S. (2020). 'Kwasi Wiredu cleared the way for modern African philosophy', The Conversation, January 19, 2022. Accessed Dec 3 2022. <br /><a href="https://theconversation.com/kwasi-wiredu-cleared-the-way-for-modern-african-philosophy-17491" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://theconversation.com/kwasi-wiredu-cleared-the-way-for-modern-african-philosophy-17491</a>
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Kwasi Wiredu
African Knowledges
African Philosophy
Decolonising Thought
Epistemology
Sociology of Knowledge