Was descended from tribal chiefs on both sides of his parents. Had a twin sister, Efua Atta, who died in 1991. They shared the middle name Atta, which means twin in the Ghanaian language of Akan. Was ...

Early in 2022, Kofi Annan released "Bull in a China Shop: Evolution of a Racial Activist" (2022). The 237-page book is a brutally honest memoir by the past president of the Fairfax County National ...

Annan spent more than four decades working for the United Nations, including at the World Health Organization and as Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping. He was the author of Interventions: A Life ...

Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, the only black African to hold the post and the first elected from within the ranks of the organization, was laid to rest on Thursday in ...

ACCRA, Ghana – United in sorrow, world leaders and international dignitaries came to Ghana to pay their last respects to the late United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan who was honored with a ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The body of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has received a hero's welcome upon landing at Kotoka International Airport in Ghana's capital. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo ...

The people of Timor-Leste (also known as East Timor) join the world in mourning the death of international diplomat Kofi Annan who died in Switzerland at the age of 80 on August 18, 2018. Annan left a ...

Kofi Annan, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations, will give a lecture entitled "Looking for a New Global Order" at German Foreign Ministry on January 28, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. Kofi Annan was ...

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In an op-ed recently published in Foreign Policy, I write about the legacy of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the United Nations. Kofi Annan, who died last weekend, was arguably the most ...