Kwame Anthony Appiah
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, 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.[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 Biography
- ↑ "Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic", Big Think.
