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| − | 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, | + | 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, 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 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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Revision as of 09:03, 25 October 2016
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.
He lives with his husband, Henry Finder,[1] in an apartment in Manhattan, and a home in Pennington, 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.[2] Appiah has written about what it was like growing up gay in Ghana.[3]
References
- ↑ Danny Postel "Is Race Real? How Does Identity Matter?" , The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2002.
- ↑ Kwame Anthony Appiah, Biography
- ↑ "Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic", Big Think.
