Invitation to the Kwame Gyekye Memorial Lecture

Date: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 16:00
Venue: 
Great Hall,UG

 

INVITATION TO THE KWAME GYEKYE MEMORIAL LECTURE

 

The Department of Philosophy and Classics in collaboration with the Gyekye family is organizing the first Kwame Gyekye Memorial Lecture on 16th April, 2024 at 4:00pm. The Memorial Lecture has been instituted to celebrate the life of, and reflect on the intellectual legacy of, Emeritus Prof. Kwame Gyekye – one of the foremost African philosophers of our time. This first public lecture marks the 5th Anniversary of his passing on April 13, 2019. 

Below are details of the lecture:

 

Guest Speaker: Prof. Martin Odei Ajei, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

Host: Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana

 

Chairperson: His Lordship, Justice Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, Justice of the Supreme Court

Special Guest of Honour: His Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

Guest of Honour: His Excellency, John Agyekum Kufuor, Former President of Ghana

Venue: Great Hall    

 

We humbly invite the university community to this maiden lecture in honour of Emeritus Prof. Kwame Gyekye on Tuesday, 16th April, 2024 at 4pm

 

Thank you.