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Kofi Atta Annan (/ ˈ k oʊ f i ˈ æ n æ n / KOH-fee AN-an, [1] US also /-ˈ ɑː n ɑː n /- AH-nahn; [2] 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. [3] Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. [4]
Lagergren was the mother-in-law of Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the UN, who was married to her eldest daughter Nane Lagergren Annan. [16] [17] Lagergren was also the niece of painter Nils Dardel. She was part of the opening of the exhibition of his art work at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2014. [18]
Kojo Annan was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 25 July 1973. [1] Kojo Annan and his sister Ama Annan are from Kofi Annan's first marriage with Titi Alakija, a Nigerian. The couple separated when Kojo Annan was six years old and divorced two years later. After his parents separated, he lived with his father and spent holidays with his mother and ...
Kobina Annan (born 1944) is a retired Ghanaian diplomat, economist and business consultant. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was Ghana's Ambassador to Morocco from 2002 to 2009. He is the brother of Kofi Annan and the uncle of Kojo Annan .
The list of Akan people includes notable individuals of Akan meta-ethnicity and ancestry; the Akan people who are also referred to as (Akan: Akanfo) are a meta-ethnicity and Potou–Tano Kwa ethno-linguistic group that are indigenously located on the Ashantiland peninsula near the equator precisely at the "centre of the Earth".
In 2007 Carter became a part of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela for elder global leaders who no longer hold public office, along with Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt and Mary Robinson. [Getty ...
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) – the first black man to head the United Nations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize; Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) – started the pan-African movement, which liberated many states from European colonialism. Arthur Wharton (1865–1930) – the first black professional footballer in the world. [42]
Nader Mousavizadeh is a businessman, author, geo-political advisor and commentator, [1] and former senior United Nations official who was an advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan from 1997 to 2003. [2]