possibly to prevent him sowing dissent amongst the people. The exact date, place, and manner of his death are unknown, though he probably died in about 1759 at the fort in Shama in Ghana. Legacy Amo is cited in Abbé Grégoire's De la littérature des nègres (1808). In August 2020, in a context of "decolonization" of place names following the murder of George Floyd, the German capital Berlin decided to rename its Mohrenstraße to "Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße" in his honour. On 10 October 2020, Google celebrated him with a Google Doodle. Works Dissertatio inauguralis de iure maurorum in Europa, 1729 (lost). Dissertatio inauguralis de humanae mentis apatheia, Wittenberg, 1734. Disputatio philosophica continens ideam distinctam eorum quae competunt vel menti vel corpori nostro vivo et organico, Wittenberg, 1734 (Ph.D. thesis). Tractatus de arte sobrie et accurate philosophandi, 1738. References Further reading Herbjørnsrud, Dag (2017) The African Enlightenment, edited by Sam Dresser, AEON, 13 December 2017 Smith, Justin E. H. (2013). "The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours" External links An extensive archive of materials by and about Amo can be found at TheAmoproject.org. The Latin original of Amo's Dissertatio inauguralis de humanae mentis apatheia, Wittenberg (On the Impassivity of the Human Mind), 1734 (Berlin State Library) Amo scholar Dwight Lewis provides a concise account of Amo's life and work which can be found on the American Philosophical Association blog: APA Online. The Oxford University Press translation and biography, by Stephen Menn and Just EH Smith: 1703 births 1759 deaths 18th-century Ghanaian people 18th-century Latin-language writers 18th-century philosophers Academic staff of the University of Halle Academic staff of the University of Jena German people of Ghanaian descent German philosophers Ghanaian male writers Ghanaian philosophers Ghanaian writers Nobility of Brunswick-Lüneburg People from Western Region (Ghana) University of Halle alumni University of Helmstedt alumni University of Wittenberg alumni