William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi (Kabina Sekyi) of Ghana, (1892-1956): Theory of Politics, Development and Cultural Identity

Abstract

Background: For a number of important reasons I would be remiss if I did not bring an African perspective to bear on a conference on Philosophy and Race and on the contribution of Professor Alain Locke, a true renaissance man and one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, to the freedom, and literally and aesthetic achievements of the African American. The subject of this paper, William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi or Kabina Sekyi as he was popularly known by his contemporaries in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), was like Alain Leroy Locke born in the latter part of the nineteenth century.