Kwame Gyekye is a Ghanaian philosopher, and an important figure in the development of modern African philosophy.

Gyekye studied first at the University of Ghana, then at Harvard University, where he obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on Græco–Arabic philosophy. He has been a Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and is a life-time Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Gyekye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ghana, and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy and African-American studies at Temple University.

Bibliography

• 1975: 'Philosophical relevance of Akan proverbs' (Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy 4:2, pp 45–53)
• 1977: 'Akan language and the materialism thesis: a short essay on the relations between philosophy and language' (Studies in Language 1:1, pp 237 44)
• 1978: 'Akan concept of a person' (International Philosophical Quarterly 18:3, pp 277–87)
• 1987: An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme
  • (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
  • 1995: revised edition (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) ISBN 1-56639-380-9
• 1988: The Unexamined Life: Philosophy and the African Experience (Ghana Universities Press)
• 1991: 'Man as a moral subject: the perspective of an African philosophical anthropology' in The Quest for Man: The Topicality of Philosophical Anthropology edd Joris van Nispens & Douwe Tiemersma (Assen/Maastricht, Netherlands: VanGorcum)
• 1992a: (edd Gyekye & Kwasi Wiredu) Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies 1 (Washington D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy)
• 1992b: 'Person and Community' in 1992a
• 1992c: 'Traditional political ideas and values' in 1992a
• 1995: 'Aspects of African communitarian thought' (The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities)