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[[File:Kwame Anthony Appiah by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|Kwame Anthony Appiah]]'''Kwame Anthony Appiah''' (born 1954) is a philosopher and novelist.

He was born in London, raised in Ghana, and educated at [[Bryanston School]] and [[Clare College, Cambridge]]. His father was a Ghanaian lawyer and politician, and his mother was an author and daughter of the Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps. He has taught philosophy and African-American studies in Ghana and the United States. He has American citizenship.

In 2016 he delivered the BBC's Reith Lectures.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2sM4D6LTTVlFZhbMpmfYmx6/kwame-anthony-appiah "The Reith Lectures: Kwame Anthony Appiah"], ''BBC''.</ref>

He lives with his husband, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the ''New Yorker'' magazine,<ref>Danny Postel [http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Race-Real-How-Does/35485 "Is Race Real? How Does Identity Matter?" ], ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', April 5, 2002.</ref> in an apartment in Manhattan, and a home in Pennington, New Jersey, where they have a small sheep farm.<ref name="bio">Kwame Anthony Appiah, [http://appiah.net/biography/ Biography]</ref> Appiah has written about what it was like growing up gay in Ghana.<ref>[http://bigthink.com/videos/ghanaians-like-sex-too-much-to-be-homophobic "Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic"], ''Big Think''.</ref>

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