Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the corecipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world. He is the founder and the Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as being the chairman of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela.
Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi in the Gold Coast onApril 1938. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in the Akan means twin. Annan and his sister were born into one of the countrys Ashanti and Fante aristocratic families both of their grandfathers and their uncle were part of the Akan aristocracy.
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