Kwasi Wiredu

In honour of Kwasi Wiredu (1931 - 2022)

He was a Ghanaian, considered one of the greatest pillars in African philosophy. After elementary education in his native country, he attended Oxford University and studied under the renowned British philosopher of mind Gilbert Ryle. The studies under Ryle significantly influenced his mature philosophical writings in that, he exhibits thoroughly the tenets of analytic philosophy (see, The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy, 61).