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Kwasi Wiredu Quotes

1931–2022

Kwasi Wiredu (3 October 1931 – 6 January 2022) was a Ghanaian philosopher, writer and professor. He was widely regarded as one of the most influential African philosophers of the twentieth century.

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5 quotes

"The careful study of our own traditional philosophies should be combined with insights from the intellectual resources of the modern world."

"The ideal of consensus seeks decisions that all concerned can live with."

"Democracy by consensus is by no means a contradiction in terms."

"Philosophy must be both critical and self-critical."

"By conceptual decolonization I mean the divesting of African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from foreign traditions."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kwasi Wiredu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.