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Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, served from 1997 to 2006. The first black African to hold the position, Annan was also the first appointee to emerge from within the ranks of the organization. 

Early Life

Kofi Atta Annan was born on April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Gold Coast, the West African nation that became Ghana after independence in 1957.

His parents, Henry Reginald and Victoria Annan, followed African tradition in naming him Kofi Atta and his twin sister, Efua Ataa. In the Akan language, Kofi and Efua are the male and female equivalents of “born on Friday,” while Atta/Ataa means twin.

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The name Annan comes down from his grandfather, the original bearer of this name, and indicates that this man was a fourth consecutive son. 

As a youngster he was sent to attend the old Methodist boarding school, Mfantsipim.

Years later he would look back and acknowledge the enormous impact some of his teachers had on his life. One in particular