Kwame Anthony Appiah London, UK, 1954
Born in London, where his father, a native of Ghana, studying law, KA Appiah grew up in Kumasi, Ghana, and educated at Bryanston School as an intern and then at Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy. He has taught philosophy and African and African American studies at the universities of Ghana, Cambridge, Duke, Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and has lectured at numerous institutions in the United States, Germany, Ghana and South Africa, as well as at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. It is since 2002 member of the faculty at Princeton University, where a member of the Department of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values​​. Anthony Appiah published numerous cultural and literary studies on African and African-American issues. In 1992, Oxford University Press published In my father's house, a work that has become a classic of cultural studies and which has received the Herskovitz Prize for the best African American study published in English. His research is related to African and African American history, literary studies, ethics, and philosophy of mind and language. He has regularly taught courses on African traditional religions. His main interests are currently twofold: first, the philosophical foundations of liberalism and, second, methodological issues related to the knowledge of the values​​.