Entry Personal Name

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: n 79102257

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: (OCoLC)oca00334339

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Description conventions: rda
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: DHU-MS
• Modifying agency: NN
• Subject heading/thesaurus conventions: lcna

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

• Birth date: 1931-10-03
• Source of date scheme: edtf

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Wiredu, Kwasi

368 ## - OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF PERSON OR CORPORATE BODY

• Other designation: Authors, Black
• Source: lcdgt

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Associated country: Ghana
• Source of term: naf

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

• Field of activity: Postcolonial African philosophy

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

• Field of activity: Philosophy
• Field of activity: Colonization--Philosophy
• Source of term: lcsh

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Philosophers
• Occupation: Authors
• Source of term: lcsh

375 ## - GENDER

• Gender: Males
• Source of term: lcdgt

377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE

• Language code: eng

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Philosophy and an African culture, 1980:
• Information found: title page (Kwasi Wiredu; prof. of philos., Univ. of Ghana)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Cultural universals and particulars, 1996:
• Information found: CIP title page (Kwasi Wiredu) data sheet (b. 3 Oct. 1931)

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• Source citation: The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed September 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
• Information found: (Wiredu, Kwasi; philosopher; b. Oct. 3, 1931 in Ghana; institutionalized postcolonial African philosophy as an academic field of study; his work covers all areas of the discipline-epistemology, metaphysics, and moral, political, and social philosophy; explored historical viewpoints of certain concepts in the Akan language and culture and compared them with that of Western philosophical concepts; contributed enormously to the understanding of African philosophical conceptual schemes; inaugurated a new discursive strategy in African philosophy)