Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghana’s Greatest Philosophical Genius 2

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Readers,
  
  See Part 3 for what another Western scholar, writer and philosopher (an academic in France) has to say about some of the possible reason (s) some of Amo's important work (s) may have disappeared.
  
  Thanks

  Dear Readers,
  
  See Part 3 for what another Western scholar, writer and philosopher (an academic in France) has to say about some of the possible reason (s) some of Amo's important work (s) may have disappeared.
  
  Thanks

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• ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

  I can't simply get it, why this bloody fool Kwarteng will be posting direct stuff copied from the internet for us to read.
  
  Can't that lunatic realize that we as people with much higher I.Q. than his 5,5% (modicum) I.Q., c ...
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  I can't simply get it, why this bloody fool Kwarteng will be posting direct stuff copied from the internet for us to read.
  
  Can't that lunatic realize that we as people with much higher I.Q. than his 5,5% (modicum) I.Q., could equally google from the internet to read all those stuff? ...What an idot!!!

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• kweku trouble 9 years ago

  You are the smartest creation with the highest I.Q who also happens to know it all, but some of us are not like you. It's the first time I am hearing of Amo thanks to Kwarteng. I can now read more on the Internet because some ...
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  You are the smartest creation with the highest I.Q who also happens to know it all, but some of us are not like you. It's the first time I am hearing of Amo thanks to Kwarteng. I can now read more on the Internet because someone has introduced me to the subject matter through this article. The purpose of the article has been achieved; awareness has been created. Knowledge is supposed to be shared.

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• Prof Lungu 9 years ago

  Another great post, by Francis Kwarteng.
  
  Still in travel, we would be remiss if we did not take time to provide a hurried but more notable comment on account of the information in Part 2, this time.
  
  For us, a larger que ...
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  Another great post, by Francis Kwarteng.
  
  Still in travel, we would be remiss if we did not take time to provide a hurried but more notable comment on account of the information in Part 2, this time.
  
  For us, a larger question is how we get matters like Professor Appiah's presentation to the masses: - the simple, but practical ideas that can inform, inspire, and infuse the mind with critical reflection on important matters of history.
  
  READ: "....notable forces of opposition. The Abbé Grégoire, the great French revolutionary Catholic priest and anti-slavery campaigner, published a survey of the cultural achievements of black people in 1808,...He subtitled it, “researches on their intellectual faculties, their moral qualities and their literature,” and he offered up Amo, among others, as evidence for the unity of the human race and the fundamental equality of black people. He sent a copy of this book to Thomas Jefferson, who had remarked in his “Notes on the State of Virginia” that he could never “find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration.” Grégoire, with Amo in hand, urged him to think again...".
  
  From what we've found, around the time Thomas Jefferson received Abbé Grégoire's book, he had most likely retired and was deeply involved with establishing the Univ. of Virginia, having already sold thousands of books to the US Library of Congress. By that time, Jefferson had fathered 3 children with Sally Hemmings, a black woman (daughter Harriet and sons Beverly and Eston).
  
  So, with reference to our para 2, it is important the masses to appreciate even more that Abbé Grégoire's book was actually a critique of Jefferson, who himself borrowed a lot of the ideas about the American Constitution from the French.
  
  On checking, we also found out that the presentation of Abbé Grégoire's book to Jefferson is not mentioned in the Wiki page for Abbé Grégoire - not to date, anyway.
  
  But it should!
  
  So What?
  
  So that this type of information is available to the masses, it might be about time for scholars to acquire some training and skill in creating, editing, and preserving Wiki and other online information, again, for the consumption of the masses.
  
  So, how else will the masses also know that, "...Grégoire also coined the term vandalism in reference to the destruction of property that occurred during the Revolution, both that which was ordered by the National Convention and that which occurred at the hands of the French people. In a series of three reports issues to the National Convention in 1794, Grégoire advocated for additional protection of art works, architecture, inscriptions, books, and manuscripts. He is credited by scholars, such as Joseph Sax and Stanley Izerda as one of the founders of the idea of preservation of cultural objects...".
  
  Theory and practice meet in language, substance and form ---- that Abbé Grégoire's example in Anton Wilhelm Amo, and the record sent to Thomas Jefferson to demonstrate the humanity of the African from Axim, is most likely the greatest gift ever given to Ghana, the former Gold Coast, the former Portuguese colony, by a French man or woman, or France, possibly equal in importance to the Statue of Liberty that was donated to the US by France almost 80 years later.
  
  But, Ghanaians (and Africans, African-Americans included) must know not only what, but what to do with Anton Wilhelm Amos as preserved in culture for posterity by the likes of Abbé Grégoire.
  
  And Kwame Nkrumah, as we learned from Part I, did his part, already!
  
  Peace!
  
  Signing off!
  
  //\\
  Prof Lungu/@theClifs/4550SoGC/Nev/LV!
  12-11-16

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• francis kwartent 9 years ago

  Great inputs there Pro Lungu.
  
  Thanks.

  Great inputs there Pro Lungu.
  
  Thanks.

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• ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

  Kwarteng, why would you keep dragging yourself in the filt? ...It has come to the point that you can't write your own name correct, let alone a simply class 3 pupil English! ...What do you fool mean by by "Great inputs" Wh ...
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  Kwarteng, why would you keep dragging yourself in the filt? ...It has come to the point that you can't write your own name correct, let alone a simply class 3 pupil English! ...What do you fool mean by by "Great inputs" Where did you twerp learn that silly English???
  
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  Author: francis kwartent
  Date: 2016-11-13 16:19:04
  Comment to:Re: To All My Readers
  
  
  Great inputs there Pro Lungu.
  
  Thanks.

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• ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

  Let's be our own watch dog to the polluting English Grammatical and misleading internet copied bogus stuff from the "semi-educated" and "quarter literate", attention seeker, Francis Kwarteng.
  
  Oh! Yes! ...And of course, It' ...
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  Let's be our own watch dog to the polluting English Grammatical and misleading internet copied bogus stuff from the "semi-educated" and "quarter literate", attention seeker, Francis Kwarteng.
  
  Oh! Yes! ...And of course, It's an undisputable fact that a black stupid man like FRANCIS KWARTENG, can only say stupid things.
  
  Here we go with some of his usual dangerous English grammatical to poisoning the ignorant reader.
  
  >>> ...that were it not for the peculiarities of Amo's life and identity, there would be little reason to study his work.
  
  >>> For another, the idea of distinguishing between our biological and our non-biological features was still in the intellectual future. > ...we could be classified, like other animals and plants, by genus and species.
  
  >>> ...every European was capable of works of philosophical genius.
  
  >>> ...It is, perhaps, worth insisting that even if you could show that every single Negro wasn’t much good at philosophy, it would not have justified black slavery.
  
  (Kwarteng, you stupid foolish amputated brain! What has philosophy got to do with slavery???)
  
  AS YOU CAN SEE, KWARTENG HAS COPIED SERIES OF DIFFERENT PARAGRAPHS FROM THE INTERNET BUT AMALGAMATED THEM IN HIS SENSELESS AND USELESS ARTICLE.
  
  Obviously, Francis Kwarteng is only seeking attention but unfortunately we are not in here to watch the likes of BOB OKALA, KUMCHACHA, AGYA KOO etc.

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• BERNARD 9 years ago

  ARE (0540527508) YOU A STUDENT,GOVERNMENT
  WORKER,
  OR UNEMPLOYED LOOKING FOR A BUSINESS TO DO ON PART TIME / FULL TIME.

  ARE (0540527508) YOU A STUDENT,GOVERNMENT
  WORKER,
  OR UNEMPLOYED LOOKING FOR A BUSINESS TO DO ON PART TIME / FULL TIME.

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• BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

  But he argued in favor of slavery and said that slavery is compatible with Christianity!

  But he argued in favor of slavery and said that slavery is compatible with Christianity!

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Don't confuse Jacobus Capitein with Anton Wilhelm Amo.
  
  It was actually Capitein, also a "Ghanaian" who defended slavery in his dissertation as being compatible with the tenets of Christianity. He was born around 1717 and ...
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  Don't confuse Jacobus Capitein with Anton Wilhelm Amo.
  
  It was actually Capitein, also a "Ghanaian" who defended slavery in his dissertation as being compatible with the tenets of Christianity. He was born around 1717 and died around 1747.
  
  I will say no more. Read more about Capitein and then come back. You will then cure yourself of "ignorance" if you take up this challenge to read more about Capitein.
  
  The interesting thing is that I have already discussed Capitein in some of my earlier articles on Ghanaweb (and elsewhere). You will have done a greater service to mankind if you religiously followed my articles.
  
  Anton Wilhelm Amo was and is not not the same person as Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein. The latter was mostly educated in the Netherlands (acquiring various degrees).
  
  I will not discuss Capitein's contributions to education (educating children of the Asante royal family etc, for instance), proselytizing, spreading literacy and reading (contributed to translating the Bible into...)
  
  Please go and read more.
  
  Thanks.

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• Fiwisintin 9 years ago

  Love your tenacity, Francis!
  
  We are still in your corner; silently loud.
  
  Be safe and protected! Jah hears your call, Jah listens, and Jah answers!
  One love, Ghana!

  Love your tenacity, Francis!
  
  We are still in your corner; silently loud.
  
  Be safe and protected! Jah hears your call, Jah listens, and Jah answers!
  One love, Ghana!

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Yes Fiwisintin.
  
  I know you have my back.
  
  Thanks.

  Yes Fiwisintin.
  
  I know you have my back.
  
  Thanks.

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• BOY KOFI 9 years ago

  We have had many great men that we don't know much about them.God bless you.

  We have had many great men that we don't know much about them.God bless you.

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Thanks BOY KOFI.
  
  I will get in touch!

  Thanks BOY KOFI.
  
  I will get in touch!

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