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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.
 
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.
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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,<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, has homes in New York city and near Pennington, in New Jersey, which he shares with his partner, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the New Yorker magazine. (In Pennington, they have a small sheep farm.<ref name="bio">Kwame Anthony [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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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>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Latest revision as of 09:07, 25 October 2016

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.[1]

He lives with his husband, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the New Yorker magazine,[2] in an apartment in Manhattan, and a home in Pennington, New Jersey, where they have a small sheep farm.[3] Appiah has written about what it was like growing up gay in Ghana.[4]

References

  1. "The Reith Lectures: Kwame Anthony Appiah", BBC.
  2. Danny Postel "Is Race Real? How Does Identity Matter?" , The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2002.
  3. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Biography
  4. "Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic", Big Think.