Agenda:

Opening remarks
Panel discussion: Ester Waithera, Elise Nangula, Mary Bodomo
Open forum for eulogies, testimonies, poems etc. in memory of a global African icon
Closing remarks
Refreshments

Chair: Adams Bodomo

Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana on April 8, 1938 and was the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. In 2001, he and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. From February to August 2012, he was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria. Kofi Annan was also Chancellor of the University of Ghana and held a number of positions at Universities around the world. He died on August 18, 2018 after a short illness.
(https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/kofi-annan/biography/)

Symposium organized by the Department of African Studies and the Global African Diaspora Studies Research Platform