The Autobiography of an African Patriot was published in 1990. Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture was inspired by his father's easy cosmopolitanism. Joe Appiah died in Accra after an illness and was buried at the Tafo cemetery at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. His widow would buy and occupy the adjacent plot after her death in 2006. His tomb was vandalised in 2008 by unknown persons. Books References External links Obituary 1918 births 1990 deaths Deaths from cancer in Ghana Ghanaian pan-Africanists Mfantsipim School alumni People from Kumasi Ghanaian activists Ghanaian MPs 1956–1965 Government ministers of Ghana National Liberation Movement (Ghana) politicians United Party (Ghana) politicians Justice Party (Ghana) politicians 20th-century Ghanaian lawyers