Kofi Annan

The Beginning Kofi Annan was a diplomat from Ghana who served as the secretary general of the United Nations. As a young child Kofi Annan loved to learn. He was born on April 8, 1938 in Kumasi, Gold Coast. There he attended Mfantsipim boarding school. Ironically he graduated in 1957 which is the same year…

Rita Orji

Rita Orji was one of nine children born to a farming family in Owelli, Nigeria. When Orji was in her adolescence, she applied to and was admitted to study at Nnamdi Azikiwe University. She received excellent marks, graduating at the top of her class. From here, she attended a masters program at the Middle East…

Kofi Annan

The seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan was a model leader with intellect and vision. Annan was born on April 8, 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana (Gold Coast) and died on August 18, 2018 in Bern, Switzerland. He studied at the Kumasi University of Science and Technology before moving to the US where…

Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is from Kumasi, Ghana. “Kofi Annan was born on April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Ghana, which was, at the time, part of the British Empire and known as the Gold Coast. Kofi had a twin sister named Efua Atta, who lived to be 53 years old. Living to be 80…

Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan was born on April 8, 1938, in Ghana. As the grandchild and nephew of tribal chiefs, he was raised in an aristocrat family (“Kofi Annan Biography“). During his younger years, he attended an elite Methodist boarding school called Mfantsipim (“Kofi Annan Biography“). It was here that he learned the important idea that “suffering…

Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan was born April 8, 1938 in Kumasi, Gold Coast, or present day Ghana. Annan would take his discipline and determination on to become the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations, joint recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and one of the most preeminent international civil servants of his generation. Kofi and his twin…

Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan was born in 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana.  He is a part of a rather prominent family of the Ghanaian Aristocracy and is also the grandson and nephew of three tribal chieftains.  In his early to mid-teens, he attended several schools until finally settling on the Methodist boarding school of Mfantsipim, it was here…