Born a twin, Kofi Atta Annan on the 8th of April 1938 to Henry Reginald Annan and Victoria Annan died on the 18th of August 2018.
Simply called Kofi Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from January 1997 to December 2006.
Mr. Annan, a lot of online publications on him, even before or after his death were focused on his diplomatic and humanitarian life — but GHPAGE.com in this publication is going to look at his lifestyle, family and some interesting facts about him.
After Mr. Annan graduated from Macalester College in the US, he got his first job in the UN as a budget officer for the World Health Organization (WHO).
He enjoyed a blossoming career and was elected under-secretary-general and head of peacekeeping in 1993. Mr. Annan was elected UN general secretary in 1997, becoming the first black African to be voted into the position.
His Background
Mr. Annan was born in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He had a twin sister, Efua Atta, who died in 1991.
He attended the elite Mfantsipim School, a Methodist boarding school from 1954 to 1957. It was here that he learnt “that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere.”
He continued at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 1958 for a degree in economics. Receiving a Ford Foundation grant, it enabled him to complete his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961.
Annan then completed a diplôme d’études approfondies DEA degree in International Relations at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62.
After some years of work experience, he studied at the Business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States and earned a master’s degree in management from 1971-1972.
He was fluent in many languages including English, French, Akan and 7 other African languages.
Family life
Mr Kofi Annan in 1965 married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from an aristocratic family. They had two children, a daughter, Ama, and later a son, Kojo. The couple separated in the late 1970s and divorced in 1983.
In 1984, Mr. Annan married Nane Annan, a Swedish lawyer at the UN and a maternal half-niece of diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. She has a daughter, Nina Cronstedt de Groot with Nane Maria.
Kofi Annan Net Worth
Mr. Kofi Annan who spent most of his life in the international civil service working with the United Nations and at the time of his death had a net worth estimated to be $5 million.
Kofi Annan Cars and house
The Car collection of Kofi Annan is quite Small. As a public servant, he was mostly sighted in official cars.
Kofi Annan owns few of the best luxury cars in the world. The Car brands owned by Kofi Annan include BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe and Chevrolet Equinox.
The house Mr. Kofi Annan lived in
Mr. Annan obviously had some few houses around the globe. And below are pictures of some of them.
Kofi Annan’s death
The legendary peace-maker passed on Saturday, 18th August 2018 in Switzerland after a short illness as is the message from his family.
In a statement released to the public, The Nobel Peace Laureate had his wife and children by his side during his last days in what they termed as a peaceful passing on.
Many leaders and people of all walks of life quickly took to social media to condole with the bereaved family of the icon.
In order not to make this post too long – we have listed his long list of achievement and legacies in this post. [10 legacies left behind by the late Kofi Annan]
