- Lived:
- Born 1954, London · raised in Kumasi, Ghana · lives in New York
- Tradition:
- Cosmopolitan ethics; philosophy of race and identity; Anglo-American and African philosophy in conversation
- The Big Idea:
- The identities that shape our lives — race, nation, religion, culture — are real in their effects but invented in their essence, and once we see that, we can belong to our own tribe and to humanity at the same time.
- If you remember one thing:
- You don't have to choose between loving your roots and caring about strangers on the far side of the world. "Universality plus difference" — that, in three words, is Appiah's whole project.