Kwame Gyekye is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ghana. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University, specializing in Greco-Arabic philosophy, and has been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution as well as a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Arabic Logic: Ibn al-Tayyib's Commentary on Porphry's Eisagoge, An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme>, and African Cultural Values: An Introduction.