ATTEMPTINGETHICS.US - the results of an art/life research project
Description: The site of ethicist, author, lecturer, New York Times columnist, Kwame Anthony Appiah, born in London, raised in Ghana.
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Family Background
Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah was born on Saturday, May 8 1954 in London, where his Ghanaian father was a law student, but moved at the age of six months, with his parents , to Ghana. (You know it was a Saturday because “Kwame” is the Akan name for a boy born on a Saturday.) His father, Joseph Emmanuel Appiah , a lawyer and politician, was also, at various times, a Member of Parliament, a political prisoner, an ambassador, and a President of the Ghana Bar Association; his mother, the novelist, Akan
ATTEMPTINGETHICS.US - the results of an art/life research project