The Reminiscences Of A Colossus: The Kofi Annan Legacy
"Kofi Annan was the United Nations and the United Nations was Kofi Annan.” This was an extract from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, in highlighting the former's contributions to the United Nations after his death on August 18, 2018 in Switzerland. Kofi Annan, the Ghanaian diplomat was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 April 1938. He preceded Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations for two consecutive five-year terms from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan attended Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast and furthered to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. While abroad, he studied at Macalester College, United States, and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Although many had admiration for his time as Secretary General of the UN, others criticised his inability to prevent the Rwandan genocide and massacr