Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan was born on April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Gold Coast (now Ghana), into a family of aristocrats and merchants from the Fante and Asante peoples. His father was a provincial governor and later a director of a major trading company; his twin sister Efua was his closest companion. He was educated at mission schools and the elite Mfantsipim School, then studied economics in the United States and Switzerland. In 1962, he joined the United Nations as a budget officer with the World Health Organization in Geneva, beginning a career that would span four decades and take him to every corner of the organization. He served in peacekeeping, refugee affairs, management, and budget, becoming Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations in 1993, just as the UN faced its darkest hours.

Kofi Annan is best known as a diplomat. Ghanaian diplomat and UN Secretary-General who advanced human rights, development goals, and peacekeeping reform.

Kofi Annan lived 1938-2018 CE, born in 1938 and died in 2018, during the contemporary period.

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