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Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghanas Greatest Philosophical Genius 2

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“Anton Wilhelm Amo’s most devoted researcher and biographer, the East German scholar Burchard Brentjes, writes in his generally excellent 1977 study, “Anton Wilhelm Amo: Der Schwarze Philosoph in Halle,” that were it not for the peculiarities of Amo’s life and identity, there would be little reason to study his work… “At the same time, I … Read more

Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghanas Greatest Philosophical Genius 1

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“Our honored Professor Hollman, while he was still in Wittenberg, conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on a Negro [Anton Wilhelm Amo] who proved his great talent both in his writings and in his lectures, and who later came to Berlin as counselor to the King. I have two of his treatises before me, … Read more