1999:
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A discussion about the Encarta Africana CD-ROM
with Kwame Appiah and Henry Louis Gates on Jan 26, 1999
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with Kwame Appiah and Henry Louis Gates on Jan 26, 1999
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Appiah is a philosopher whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. He is currently the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He was born in London, raised in Kumasi, Ghana, and educated at Bryanston School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. His father was the Ghanaian politician and barrister Joe Appiah, and his mother was Peggy Cripps, a children’s-book author and a daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps.