Kofi Annan- Ghanian Diplomat

Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan, the first dark African to lead the United Nations, has died at age 80. He filled in as Secretary-General when tensions over the Cold War were supplanted by dangers of worldwide fear-mongering, and his endeavors to battle those dangers and secure a more serene world presented to him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Annan, born in Ghana in the year 1938, was first appointed as the seventh UN Secretary-General. From 1997 to 2006, he was the first to ascend from inside to the positions of the United Nations staff.
He had likewise been a part, since 2007, of The Elders, a philanthropic gathering of twelve pioneers and activists of overall stature framed by Nelson Mandela. In 2013, Annan turned into its administrator.
Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros area of Kumasi in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Atta, who passed on in 1991, shared the center name Atta, which in the Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were naturally introduced to one of the nation's Ashanti and Fante privileged families; both of their granddads and their uncle were ancestral chiefs.

Kofi Annan

In the Akan names convention, a few youngsters are named by the day of the week on which they were conceived, as well as in connection to what number of kids go before them. Kofi in Akan is the name that relates to Friday. Annan has said his surname rhymes with "gun" in English.
During the period from 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the Mfantsipim school, a Wesleyan education school situated in Cape Coast that got established in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school showed him "that anguish anyplace concerns individuals everywhere". In 1957, Annan moved on from Mfantsipim to the Gold Coast where he was picked up for the autonomy from the UK and started utilizing the name as "Ghana".
In 1958, Annan went to study economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, which is now known as the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He got a Ford Foundation to give, empowering him to finish his undergrad ponders in financial matters at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961. During the period from 1961-1962, he received his degree in International Relations at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. After a few long stretches of work understanding, he learned at the MIT Sloan School of Management(1971– 72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a graduate degree in administration.  Annan was conversant in English, French, Akan, some Kru dialects, and other African languages.