The African Who Taught Europe to Think; The Wilhelm Amo Story

The African Who Taught Europe to Think; The Wilhelm Amo Story

I stumbled onto the story of Wilhelm Anton Amo Afer by accident, and then it became a rabbit hole I couldn't climb out of.

He was an intellectual giant who earned his doctorate in 1734, the same year that European ships were pillaging the African coast, chaining human beings into cargo holds to work plantations in the New World.

He came from the Nzema people of present-day Ghana. Taken to Europe as a child, likely as a "gift" to the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel as a curiosity piece.

Instead, he became one of the sharpest philosophical minds on the continent. His doctoral dissertation, ''On the Impassivity of the Human Mind'' engage European dualism.

Here is a short story about him.

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