Alexander Osei Adum Kwapong (1927–2014) was a notable classical scholar who studied at the renowned Achimota School of Ghana, and gained a PhD in Ancient History from King’s College, Cambridge. He subsequently became the first African Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, and went on to a career in several institutions of higher education. As with some other African Classical scholars, the attitude towards the Classics represented in his writings repays examination, especially on the following issues: to what extent does he see his professional activity as ‘decolonizing’? To what extent are the Classics within his work already unmoored from any significantly European identity? Drawing on his autobiography and several more or less formal texts about the Classics in Africa, I shall tease out the possible complexities of Kwapong’s positions. Although ‘decolonizing’ does not necessarily mean the same in his writings as in our current preoccupations, his version of Classics as a discipline is geared towards promoting a usable history of Africa, a productive account of Africa’s place in the world, and an open dialogue among cultures.

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非洲经典非殖民化：Alexander Kwapong 的作品

亚历山大·奥塞·阿杜姆·夸蓬（Alexander Osei Adum Kwapong，1927-2014）是一位著名的古典学者，曾就读于著名的加纳阿奇莫塔学院，并获得剑桥大学国王学院古代史博士学位。随后，他成为加纳大学的第一位非洲副校长，并继续在几所高等教育机构工作。与其他一些非洲古典学者一样，他的著作中表现出的对古典的态度值得检验，尤其是在以下问题上：他在多大程度上认为自己的专业活动是“非殖民化”的？他作品中的经典在多大程度上已经脱离了任何重要的欧洲身份？借鉴他的自传和几本或多或少关于非洲经典的正式文本，我将梳理 Kwapong 立场可能的复杂性。