Who was the pioneering eighteenth-century Ghanaian philosopher from Axim who earned a doctorate in Germany and lectured at the Universities of Halle, Wittenberg, and Jena?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Anton Wilhelm Amo
- Step 1: Anton Wilhelm Amo was taken to Europe as a child in 1707. Step 2. He defended his philosophical dissertation on the rights of Africans in 1729 and taught Enlightenment philosophy before returning to Ghana. Answer: Anton Wilhelm Amo. Why not the others: Philip Quaque was the first African ordained in the Church of England; Mensah Sarbah was a 19th-century lawyer; Aggrey was an educator.
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