Jacques Strap said:
Always interesting when foreigners get involved with telling us who and who is not a traitor to America
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Appiah was born in London, England, to Peggy Cripps Appiah (ne Cripps), an English art historian and writer, and Joe Appiah, a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from Ashanti Region, Ghana. For two years (19701972) Joe Appiah was the leader of a new opposition party that was made by the country's three opposing parties. Simultaneously, he was the president of the
Ghana Bar Association. Between 1977 and 1978, he was Ghana's representative at the United Nations.
Kwame Anthony Appiah was raised in
Kumasi, Ghana, and educated at
Bryanston School and
Clare College, Cambridge, where he earned his
BA (
First Class) and
PhD degrees in philosophy. As a child, he spent a good deal of time in England, staying with his grandmother Dame
Isobel Cripps, widow of the English statesman Sir
Stafford Cripps.]