Martin Luther University

Oct. 29-31, 2018: International conference on the Ghana-born philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703-1758) at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany. Anton Wilhelm Amo (Afer) was born in today’s Ghana. He grew up in today’s Germany, and he taught philosophy at the universities of Halle, Wittenberg, and Jena in the 1730s. Amo wrote books in Latin. More in Dag Herbjørnsrud’s Aeon essay on Amo and the Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob, 1599-1692 […]