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The film which had everyone talking in the summer of '64 starred 'John, Paul, George and Ringo' - The Beatles had taken America by storm.
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On this day in 1964, there was a very special release put into the American box offices. The film which had everyone talking in the summer of ’64 starred ‘John, Paul, George and Ringo’—The Beatles had taken America by storm and Beatlemania was in full effect when their feature film A Hard’s Day Night hit the cinema.
While 54 years may have passed but the impact of the band is still widely felt, not only through modern music but a modern culture in general. One thing from The Beatles‘ career that is very clear to align with today’s pop stars is the hysteria they created, which if anything, was far larger back in the ’60s.
Unlike today, the fans of bands didn’t have the immediate access to their icons via social media or television, no back then the fans demanded more and more of what they could read in the papers and hear on their records and radios. They wanted a film.
[MORE] – Study claims Paul McCartney “misremembers” writing Beatles track ‘In My Life’
So came A Hard Day’s Night and the continued, meteoric rise of The Beatles. “The Beatles in their feature film debut, one of the greatest rock-and-roll comedy adventures ever,” the official film synopsis reads. “The film has a fully restored negative and digitally restored soundtrack. The film takes on the just-left-of-reality style of mock-documentary, following ‘a day in the life’ of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as fame takes them by storm.”
The film, like everything The Beatles touched, was a critical and commercial success. The project has since been credited as being one of the most influential musical films of all time, inspiring numerous future cinematic pictures.
We thought we’d bring you some of the best images from that moment in history sampled via Blue Jay Way, a fan site for The Beatles:
The screenplay, written by Alun Owen, was specifically thought out and Owen was picked due to his past work on his play No Trams to Lime Street, and his understanding of the Liverpudlian dialogue.
“Alun hung around with us and was careful to try and put words in our mouths that he might’ve heard us speak, so I thought he did a very good script,” Paul McCartney once explained.
Apparently, after spending a fair few days living alongside the band in order to understand their lives in more detail, The Beatles told Owen that they lived like “a train and a room and a car and a room and a room and a room.” This fact in itself suggests why certain themes of the film touch on the aspect that The Beatles had become prisoners of their own fame.
Richard Lester, director of the film, once said: “The general aim of the film was to present what was apparently becoming a social phenomenon in this country. Anarchy is too strong a word, but the quality of confidence that the boys exuded.”
He added: “Confidence that they could dress as they liked, speak as they liked, talk to the Queen as they liked, talk to the people on the train who ‘fought the war for them’ as they liked. … [Everything was] still based on privilege—privilege by schooling, privilege by birth, privilege by accent, privilege by speech. The Beatles were the first people to attack this… they said if you want something, do it. You can do it. Forget all this talk about talent or ability or money or speech. Just do it.”
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'This Is Spinal Tap' will get a reboot in a sequel set to start filming in February, with cameos from Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks & more.
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Rob Reiner is ready to turn it up to 11 again. The writer/director revealed on the RHLSTP with Richard Herring podcast this week that he will revisit one of his most iconic projects when he gets the band back together next year for a sequel to his legendary rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.
The beloved 1984 film that skewered all things rock is slated to begin filming in February with original stars/writers Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) and Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls) repriseing their roles as the hapless metal band who once lost a drummer in a “bizarre gardening accident.”
Reiner said he will revisit his role as documentarian Martin “Marty” Di Bergi, telling Herring, “We’re making a sequel… everybody’s back.” Like the original — which featured cameos from Ed Begley Jr., Fran Drescher, Dana Carvey, Billy Crystal, Angelica Huston and Fred Willard — the reboot will feature some even heavier hitters making cameos, including Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks, plus a “few other surprises.”
The original found Reiner filming a documentary on one of “England’s loudest bands,” in a film in which most of the dialogue was improvised, with some of the iconic catchphrases — including “turn it up to 11” — becoming part of modern rock parlance; not for nothing, radios in Teslas go to 11.
It follows the self-important rockers on a 1982 U.S. tour to promote their Smell the Glove album, which some retailers refuse to stock because of its sexist cover image. Along the way there is a scheming astrology-obsessed girlfriend, a ill-fated, accidentally, hilariously tiny Stonehenge stage prop and a classic scene where the band loses their way to stage that was inspired by a real-life video of Tom Petty getting mixed up backstage at a show in Germany.
The accompanying soundtrack album featured such ridiculously over-the-top metal anthems as “Hell Hole,” “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight,” “Big Bottom” and early hit “Gimme Some Money,” all performed by the movie’s stars.
Though the film did modest box office at the time, it has since blossomed into a midnight movie must-see, even making it onto the Library of Congress’ list of culturally significant artifacts. “No, we never did,” Reiner said of whether he thought the comedy would have such long legs and garner such accolades as the Library honor and making the list of movies worth preserving from the National Film Registry.
In essentially creating the rock mockumentary genre, Reiner recalled screening the film in Dallas and having confused theatergoers coming up to him after and asking, “I don’t understand, why would you make a movie about a band that nobody’s ever heard of? And they’re so bad!”
In an interview with Deadline last year, Reiner hinted at the direction of the sequel. “I can tell you hardly a day goes by without someone saying, ‘why don’t you do another one?,'” Reiner said of the idea to revisit the film for its 40th anniversary. “For so many years, we said, ‘nah.’ It wasn’t until we came up with the right idea how to do this. You don’t want to just do it, to do it. You want to honor the first one and push it a little further with the story.”
At the time, Reiner said the second Tap would follow the band after a long break. “They’ve played Albert Hall, played Wembley Stadium, all over the country and in Europe,” Reiner said. “They haven’t spent any time together recently, and that became the premise. The idea was that Ian Faith, who was their manager, he passed away. In reality, [actor] Tony Hendra passed away. Ian’s widow inherited a contract that said Spinal Tap owed them one more concert. She was basically going to sue them if they didn’t. All these years and a lot of bad blood we’ll get into and they’re thrown back together and forced to deal with each other and play this concert.”
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Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon do a lot of running about in A Hard Day's Night.
The Beatles' career is divided into two parts. Their early work, features their moptop haircuts, suits and incredibly catchy pop songs. Their later work is more artistic as the group shed whatever clean cut image they had left, grew their hair and their beards out, stopped touring and began experimenting, both musically and with other less legal substances.
This movie, A Hard Day's Night, was released in the middle of the early phase of their career when Beatlemania was at its height. It epitomises the group during this period, capturing the joyful innocence of these four lads from Liverpool, who were living the dream, still innocent enough to enjoy it, before the drugs, the cynicism and the infighting would take their toll. It's a lighthearted movie that shows these group of friends having so much fun that it's impossible for the audience not to enjoy themselves as well.
I have an early memory from the 1970s of my mother, who was never much of a Beatles fan, talking about seeing this movie when it was in theaters. She said (and I'm paraphrasing because it's been almost 40 years) something like, "I didn't like their movies. It was just the Beatles running around and being chased." While it's not necessarily the most detailed synopsis, it is almost an accurate one. The Beatles do, in fact, do a lot of running around and being chased in this movie. That's not all they do, but there is a bit of that. The plot is simply an imagined day in their life and a portion of their days were spent avoiding their screaming, mostly female fans.
Of course, all that running around is accompanied by some of the greatest pop songs of all time. Along with the title track, there's "Can't Buy Me Love", "All My Loving", "She Loves You", "I Wanna Be Your Man" and "I Love Her", among others. Richard Lester, the director of this movie is often credited as the father of the modern music video and watching the way he films the songs here, it is easy to see why. His inventive camera angles, surreal visuals and quick edits are all recognizable to the MTV generation.
While I enjoy and can sing along to all the songs, the real joy to me is the zany, British humor. Each member of the group is given a distinctive personality and a scene or two of their own. John Lennon is the scene stealer of the group. Supposedly, many of his dry, sarcastic zingers were improvized by him on the set. I'm sure the group as a whole had fun with the scene where they're being interviewed by the press and are asked all the predictable questions, with several revolving around their hair. Reporter: What would you call that hairstyle? George: Arthur.
Reporter: How did you find America? John: Turned left at Greenland.
Reporter: Are you a mod or a rocker? Ringo: No, I'm a mocker.
Paul is asked repeatedly about his relationships, to which he always replies, "No, actually, we're just good friends."
Along with the Fab Four, the supporting cast manages to get in some laughs as well.
Wilfred Brambell is particularly funny as Paul's grandfather. He likes to stir things up in the group and gets Ringo riled up at one point. There's a dated running joke about him being a clean old man that requires some explanation these days. At the time Brambell was well known for playing junkman Steptoe on the BBC's Steptoe and Son (which would get remade in America as Sanford and Son) where a common catchphrase was, "What a dirty old man" in reference to his character.
Victor Spinetti, the fussy television director also gets a few laughs as does Norman Rossington and John Junkin as the band's managers and handlers. Rossington has a running verbal spat with Lennon throughout the film.
The Beatles songs of this early period were bubblegum pop of the very highest order. They are infectious and impossible not to sing along to. Like this movie, they will leave any but the most stony hearted feeling good.
Paul, George, Ringo and John (and Paul's very clean grandfather) in A Hard Day's Night.
A Hard Day's Night is one of the most groundbreaking and entertaining musicals ever made. It was filmed in the style known as Cinéma vérité. Wikipedia defines this as, “A style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects.” Add in music, jokes and legions of screaming fans, and you have an apt description of this film.
As Scott wrote it captures the four lads from Liverpool right as Beatlemania was sweeping the world. It shows that beyond their musical genius they were four down to earth and very witty young chaps. They seem well-grounded and unfazed by their unprecedented success. The art form known as the music video certainly owes a huge debt to this film as does The Monkees television show, which pretty much emulates everything about it.
The songs are all catchy and melodic pop confections that have long since passed into the realm of legend. Apparently the title track was written after A Hard Day's Night had been chosen as the title of the movie, not the other way around as I had always assumed.
It was filmed in roughly sequential order during the months of March and April, 1964. One of my favorite scenes takes place at Thornbury Playing Fields, Isleworth, Middlesex. While “Can't Buy Me Love” plays, the four Beatles run, dance and chase each other around the field. The camera work during this sequence is particularly creative, often showing these silly blokes from an overhead angle. At the end of the song they get kicked off the field by a surly older gentlemen to whom George remarks, “Sorry we hurt your field, mister.”
So much has been written about John and Paul, but Ringo steals the movie away from them both. Not only does he utter the most famous line, the one Scott quoted about being a mocker, but he gets the most solo screen-time and shows a bit of emotional range in the scene where he walks forlornly along a riverbank. He was the funniest Beatle as well, as he demonstrates with his comic delivery in this exchange between him and George...
George: “What's the matter with you, then?” Ringo: “It's his grandfather. I can tell he doesn't like me. It's cause I'm little.” George: “Ah, you've got an inferiority complex, you have.” Ringo: “Yeah, I know, that's why I play the drums - it's me active compensatory factor.”
Ringo also gets the best slapstick sight gag when he lays his coat over a puddle for a girl to walk over and it turns out to be a deep hole in the ground, shades of Laurel and Hardy.
In addition to the iconic pop songs, A Hard Day's Night is quite funny and remains surprisingly fresh after all these decades, proving that some things are indeed timeless.
George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell and Paul McCartney during the filming of A Hard Day's Night.
What is so timeless about this film is its depiction of the typical young western male. The Beatles, as shown here, are the epitome of free. They muck about, doing a lot of nothing. They flirt with girls and enjoy their attention. What really marks them as western youth is their behavior. They question authority figures. When Ringo is told by his manager to watch Paul's grandfather, he asks if he has to. The manager responds, sounding much like a parent, "Do I have to raise my voice?" At another point John says, "We know how to behave! We've had lessons."
They often make fun of Paul's grandfather and act disrespectful to older men. They tease an old man on the train, who snaps back to them, "Don't take that tone with me, young man. I fought the war for your sort." Ringo comes back with, "I bet you're sorry you won."
Ringo's dramatic moment comes after he talks to Paul's grandfather about being unappreciated. Ringo says to him, "Funny, really, 'cause I'd never thought of it, but being middle-aged and old takes up most of your time, doesn't it?" He then decides he had better enjoy himself before it is too late. Just prior to walking off, John mocks him by saying, "Here he is, the middle aged boy wonder." Ringo then walks off, and spends part of his time away with a ten year old boy.
Their acts of rebellion are gentle and harmless, yet there is an underlying sense of something else just under the surface waiting to emerge. This can be seen in such scenes as when John jokingly sniffs the pop bottle of Coca Cola. Think about it.
A Hard Day's Night is a celebration of youth and its natural rebellion against the previous generation. It has been part of our culture since at least the turn of the last century and nothing has better presented it than films and music. The Beatles, whose ages ran from 21 to 24 in 1964, represented their generation in all its optimistic youth.
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Director: Richard Lester
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
In 1964 the biggest band on the planet made their big screen debut with this groundbreaking film that presented a 'typical' day in the life of The Fab Four. Directed by Richard Lester whose innovative techniques paved the way for generations of music videos, the film's frenetic mix of comic escapades, legendary one-liners and pop perfection captured a moment in time that defined a generation.
Bonus Features
In Their Own Voices - a new piece combining 1964 interviews with The Beatles with behind-the-scenes footage and photos
You Can't Do That: The Making of A Hard Day's Night - a documentary by producer Walter Shenson including an outtake performance by The Beatles
Things They Said Today, a documentary about the film featuring director Richard Lester music producer George Martin, screenwriter Alun Owen and cinematographer Gilbert Taylor
Picturewise - a new piece about Richard Lester's early work featuring a new audio interview with the director
Anatomy of a Style - a new piece on Richard Lester's methods
New interview with author Mark Lewisohn
Audio commentary with cast and crew
New 50th Anniversary trailer
Available as download and on-demand from iTunes, Amazon and all major platforms
Catalogue number: 2NDBR4035
Certificate: PG
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A Hard Day's Night (1964) starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and directed by Richard Lester.
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A day-and-a-half in the life of the Fab Four leading up to a televised concert gig. The lads are constantly on the run, from their crazed fans and from their manager, who is constantly trying to rein them in. However, Ringo is arrested and still isn't in the studio a half-hour before air time. With Paul's grandfather available for additional comical relief, the group performs a dozen or so songs.
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Hollywood does not exactly ration music biopics, but this one feels like a biggie: Sam Mendes, the man behind Spectre, Skyfall and 1917, will be directing four feature films about The Beatles. Each movie will be told from the perspective of the members who are, if you need reminding, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison.
Are you excited? Mendes certainly is: “I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies.” You will be able to judge how exciting that notion is in 2027, when the films are set to arrive.
Okay, so, you may be exhausted by the prospect of another music biopic, not to mention four. But there are reasons to be excited. Macca, Ringo and the families of Lennon and Harrison have granted full rights for their life story and music for the series. And, according to the press release “the dating cadence of the films” will be “innovative and groundbreaking”. Sure!
Right now, the real fun is in working out who’s going to play the Fab Four. There is a strong case to cast unknowns – nothing more exciting than watching actors become stars before our eyes – but there is a very abundant crop of actors from the British isles and beyond who would be great choices. And while there is a lot we don’t know – are they going to pick one actor and age them up through the film or pick a few actors to play the musicians at different ages The Crown-style? Will they have to sing? – let us make some obvious (and wild) guesses.
Paul McCartney
The obvious choice: Tom Holland
Holland became a star by playing Spider-Man. Everyone knows that part of the story, but he has musical chops – not to mention the earnest, leading man vibe – to take on McCartney. He made his name playing Billy Elliot on stage, after all. And perhaps his most endearing public role to date? Dancing in full Rihanna regalia to “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Karaoke. Not only did Paul McCartney collaborate with Rihanna on "FourFiveSeconds", but he's one of the only mega star musicians we know of to have also released an umbrella-based song. It's clearly written in the stars. And what's more, this might be exactly the right role to get Holland back on the right track, following a few post-Marvel stumbles (The Crowded Room, we’re looking at you).
The wildcard: Jack Lowden
For a while now, Scottish actor Jack Lowden has been making his way through celebrated thrillers, from Dunkirk (surely one of Nolan’s sprawling cast from that film will be present here) to the Apple TV spy series Slow Horses. That series in particular proved that he's capable of a fine English accent, so that shouldn’t be a problem. He also has previous experience at playing an iconic singer, taking on the role of Morrissey in 2017’s England Is Mine, though that film’s muted reception might not necessarily work in his favour. Beyond those credentials, Lowden is simply a good actor: serious but not boring, with a cheekiness that would work well here. He would have to dye his hair but we could see him with a ’60s side-swept fringe.
John Lennon
The obvious choice: Aaron Taylor-Johnson
This is the laziest choice on the list because Taylor-Johnson has already played Lennon in Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy, which followed the musician’s teenage years. He has done the work, as they say. If Mendes wanted to start shooting immediately, Taylor-Johnson would just need to pop on a pair of National Health specs and they could start rolling. Alas, we probably need a fresh face and the actor may be a little (okay, way) too jacked post-Kraven.
The wildcard: Josh O’Connor
Josh O’Connor has experience playing one globally-recognised Brit for two seasons of The Crown, pulling off the lovelorn, eternally patient Prince Charles with aplomb. And the actor can channel the right blend of intellectual and neurotic for the singer. Let him take on Lennon!
Ringo Starr
The obvious choice: Anthony Boyle
If anyone could take off from Masters of the Air’s less famous supporting cast, perhaps it could be Irish actor Anthony Boyle. In that gigantic show – in terms of budget and cast size – Boyle managed to hold his own but never stole the limelight. All good training for Starr. And he’s about to appear in Apple TV’s Manhunt, a dramatisation about the aftermath of Lincoln’s assassination, opposite Tobias Menzies, which means signs point to a potential leading man. Without the burden of a past star-making turn, Boyle could make this role his own.
The wildcard: Isaac Hempstead Wright
It was hard to think of another pick for the affable drummer, but let us go with Isaac Hempstead Wright, stuck for eight seasons in Game of Thrones as the Stark family’s supernatural member. He has the (w)right look for the role, for one thing. Inevitably, though there’s plenty of pathos to be found in Starr’s Beatles career, anyone taking on the role will likely have to embrace the goofy side of things. Hempstead Wright was in a comedy film called The Boxtrolls. Did anyone see that? Please report back.
George Harrison
The obvious choice: Jacob Elordi
Look, I tried to avoid adding one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood in this list, but after a quick Google of “young George Harrison”, the resemblance is undeniable. It’s the jawline and the lips and the hair (the height discrepancy admittedly might work against the buzzy actor). Elordi has played a very famous musician in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and perfected an English accent, albeit a very posh one, in Saltburn. If it seems strange to cast an Aussie hunk best known for playing an American jock as one quarter of an impish British boy band, well, that’s show business. And it would also draw in legions of smitten teenagers: fitting!
The wildcard: George Mackay
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In 1964, Fredonia’s Winter Garden Theatre was packed for the Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night. To celebrate the movie’s 60th birthday, that theatre, now the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center, presents the film on the big screen again.
In this classic of musical comedy, the baggage car gig on the train to London was still setting the bar for music videos more than 20 years later.
Starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay by Alun Owen. McCartney later said, “Alun hung around with us and was careful to put words in our mouths that he might’ve heard us speak.”
Originally released by United Artists, the film also featured famous actor Wilfrid Brambell as McCartney’s unruly grandfather. Uncredited cast members included model Pattie Boyd, model/actress Charlotte Rampling, and singer/songwriter Phil Collins, all among the Beatles’ adoring fans.
British critic Leslie Halliwell described the film as a “comic fantasia with music,” and awarded it a full four stars. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked the movie as the 88th greatest British film of the 20th century. In 2004, Time magazine rated the film as one of the 100 all-time greatest movies.
In 1964, the average price of a movie ticket was 87¢. Nearly everyone in Dunkirk or Fredonia between ages 11 and 19 found their way to the Winter Garden for this film. As a throwback to 1964, tickets to this screening are $1 and are available at the door only.
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A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
60th anniversary of The Beatles in the U.S.
Wednesday, February 7
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U.K./U.S., 1964
Directed by Richard Lester
Screenplay by Alun Owen
Starring The Beatles — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Approx. 85 min. DCP.
Q: "Are you a mod or a rocker?" Ringo: "I’m a mocker." Just another day in the life: fleeing from screaming fans at train stations, contending with a “very clean” grandfather, jamming in a baggage car, cavorting in a field, wandering by a river, weirding out knotted-browed reporters with absurdist comebacks, wowing crowds at an orgasmic final concert — the Beatles’ film debut rocketed them to another level beyond the latest pop faces as even squarely middle-aged critics, their knives sharpened for yet another schlocky teen idol exploiter, were disarmed into grudging hosannas. Q: "Tell me, how do you find America?" John: "Turn left at Greenland." Director Richard Lester melded his mastery of commercials with New Wave techniques in a semi-documentary style that created something new — and since endlessly imitated — along with Alun Owen’s screenplay in which scripted oneliners and the occasional ad-lib blend seamlessly, thanks, of course, to the exuberant, anarchic personalities of the Fab Four themselves. Q: "What would you call that hairstyle?" George: "Arthur." And those songs just keep on coming: “I Should Have Known Better,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “All My Loving,” “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You,” “She Loves You,” and the title song, inspired by a chance remark by Ringo and written overnight by Lennon and McCartney after filming was completed.
Reviews
"Looks more aggressively modern than any recent pop movie you can name. This is where it all started: the first (and, some would argue, the last) truly successful fusion of pop music and cinema."
– Tom Huddleston, Time Out New York
"ONE OF THE WORLD'S PERFECT FILMS! For a 50-year-old movie, it still looks impossibly youthful, especially in this restored version: In all its satiny black-and-white splendor, it feels more like today than yesterday… There was a brief time when everyone loved The Beatles, finding them agreeable and charming and cheekily nonthreatening. But there’s real danger, all right, in their music, and the numbers in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT are the most gently seductive ever put on film. The boys captivate the young schoolgirl played by Patti Boyd—later to become Mrs. George Harrison—with a magically impromptu performance of “I Should Have Known Better” in a train carriage, the song’s myriad boy-meets-girl questions wedged between the hands of a card game. But it’s in the final cluster of songs, an artful melding of “Tell Me Why,” “If I Fell,” and “I Should Have Known Better,” where Lester truly tips his hand. He knows what this movie is about, and he knows who it’s for."
– Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
“Still brims with a sense of urgency and lightning-in-a-bottle vitality; take out the period-specific details and early Sixties Pop Art references, and it could have been made this year.”
– David Fear, Rolling Stone
"THE ZENITH OF ROCKSPLOITATION AND... A FOREFATHER OF THE MUSIC VIDEO!”
– Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair Click here to read Vanity Fair’s feature on Richard Lester and A Hard Day’s Night
"A SATIRIC CELEBRATION OF ANARCHIC YOUTH AND THE BLAST OF OXYGEN THAT THEY GIVE TO A WHEEZING KINGDOM. Richard Lester, and the screenwriter, Alun Owen, set out to show how The Beatles' phenomenal fame encased them in a cocoon. But the Fab Four weren't larvae–they were brilliant butterflies, and they displayed an unsurpassed rapport with their fans and the movie audience, too."
– Michael Sragow, The New Yorker
"Rock movies were never the same after A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. The 1964 screen debut of The Beatles was meant to cash in on the wave of Beatlemania sweeping the band's native England and produce a soundtrack album that American movie studio United Artists could market through its music division. It did that and more: Like its stars, the movie became a cultural phenomenon."
– Steve Dollar, Wall St. Journal
"A POP CULTURE PHENOMENON! Watching the opening is like getting a direct injection of happiness... Lester and his team pick up and distill everything in the air on the eve of the counterculture: now capturing events with documentary realism, now stylizing them with gleeful surrealism, always managing, by impishly flouting the rules of ‘proper’ storytelling, to keep alive a sense of barriers being blasted. By embodying what its makers set out to document, Lester achieved something dazzling and rarely equaled... a reference point not merely for the birth of The Beatles as a mass phenomenon, but for the emergence of a wildly attractive youth culture that has transformed the world.”
– David Edelstein, Slate
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1984 British musical film
Give My Regards to Broad StreetDirected byPeter WebbScreenplay byPaul McCartneyProduced byAndros EpaminondasStarringPaul McCartney
Bryan Brown
Ringo Starr
Barbara Bach
Linda McCartney
Tracey Ullman
Ralph RichardsonCinematographyIan McMillanEdited byPeter BestonMusic byPaul McCartney
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Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
Running time
108 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBudget$9 million[1]Box office$1.4 million
Give My Regards to Broad Street is a 1984 British musical-drama film directed by Peter Webb. It stars Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown and Ringo Starr. The film covers a fictional day in the life of McCartney, who wrote the film for the screen, and McCartney, Starr and Linda McCartney all appear as themselves. Despite Give My Regards to Broad Street being unsuccessful, both financially and critically, its soundtrack album sold well. The title is a take on George M. Cohan's song "Give My Regards to Broadway" and refers to London's Broad Street railway station. It was the first appearance for McCartney in a non-documentary feature film since Help! (1965) and is currently his last starring role in a feature film.
Filming and recording of Broad Street began in November 1982 after the completion of Pipes of Peace. Production on the album and film continued until July the following year. In the interim, Pipes of Peace and its singles were released, and the film project was scheduled for an autumn 1984 release.
Paul (Paul McCartney) is stuck in a traffic jam in his chauffeur-driven car on his way to an interview. He daydreams that he is driving himself in a flashier car crammed with modern technology around the countryside when he gets a call from Steve (Bryan Brown) that Harry (Ian Hastings), a reformed criminal, is missing along with the master tapes he was supposed to give to the factory the previous day. Paul races to the studio to find that the police are there investigating the matter, thinking that Harry is back to his old ways. The news gets worse when Mr. Rath (John Bennett), to whom the studio owes money, arrives with the news that he will take over the record company if the tapes aren't found by midnight.
Following the meeting, the film follows a day in the life of Paul and his work with wife Linda McCartney and friend Ringo Starr, which includes filming two videos, rehearsing in a loft, and recording performances for the radio. In between videos, Paul wonders what Harry might have done: Did he give the master tapes to be bootlegged, did he just run off, or was he murdered? During several songs, Paul has elaborate fantasies in various settings and costumes inspired by his predicament. Once the day is done, Paul drives around London, and his associates brace themselves for the takeover as midnight approaches. While driving towards Broad Street, Paul remembers that Harry was headed there when he last saw him and goes exploring the station. Eventually, he finds the blue case containing the tapes on a platform bench, and Harry in a small maintenance building nearby, where he accidentally trapped himself looking for the toilet. They both laugh, they drive off, Paul informs Linda, Linda informs the studio that the tapes have been found, and the takeover is averted. Paul's chauffeur-driven car finally arrives at its destination, and he is awoken from his nap.
The film was the result of a long-held ambition of McCartney, a lifelong film fan, to become involved in acting again after his success with the Beatles' films. Give My Regards to Broad Street was described in the press as McCartney's first film in 14 years, but Rockshow had been released four years earlier.
Broad Street was one of the later film appearances of Ralph Richardson, who plays an older man named Jim that McCartney visits late in the movie, looking for Harry. Some critics have pointed out Jim's similarity to McCartney's father (who was also named James; Richardson's character refers to McCartney as "son") and appears to be something of a poet—the elder McCartney had his own jazz band in the 1940s. (McCartney has said that he based the character on Polonius from Hamlet.)
The 13-minute animated film Rupert and the Frog Song was shown in cinemas immediately preceding Give My Regards to Broad Street. The short film contained the song "We All Stand Together", sung by McCartney and "the Frog Chorus". Simultaneously with the film's premiere in November, "We All Stand Together" was released as a single and became a hit in the UK, reaching #3.
A video game based on the film was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computers in 1985. The game was developed by Argus Press Software and released in its Mind Games series. The C64 version was published by Mastertronic in the U.S. (Cat. no. ICD-0082).
The game takes place after the action of the film and it is discovered that one track from the album was missing from the recovered tapes. The missing track was going to be the lead single so without it, the studio is back in jeopardy. The player takes the role of McCartney, who must travel around London to track down members of the band and other people who were at the original studio session to help piece the track back together. The game package contained a fold out map of London[2] and profiles of the characters which the player needs to use to predict where to find them.
Although its soundtrack was a success, the film was met with negative reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one out of four stars, praising its music as "wonderful" but wrote that it "is about as close as you can get to a nonmovie, and the parts that do try something are the worst." He particularly criticized the long, irrelevant dream sequences and the poor photography, and he advised readers to buy the soundtrack album and not bother to see the film.[3]
Retrospectively, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has clocked the film’s positive review score at 25% based on reviews by 16 critics.[4]
"No More Lonely Nights", a song from the film, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Original Song-Motion Picture.
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Beatles biopic rumoured casting: Barry Keoghan tipped to play Ringo Starr with Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney in new Sam Mendes film
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Rumours have begun to swirl about who could be playing the famous four in Sam Mendes' Beatles Biopic.
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Rumours have begun to swirl about who could be playing the famous four in Sam Mendes' Beatles Biopic.
The 58-year-old director announced earlier this year that he would be directing four separate films about the legendary band and has now reportedly cast the leading quartet.
According to The InSneider, Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan is to portray Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson is to star as John Lennon, and Charlie Rowe will take on the part of George Harrison.
The films are reportedly set to be interconnected stories with one from each band member's perspective.
It marks the first time ever that The Beatles and their Apple Corps. company have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.
The movies are being made by Sony Pictures and Sam's Neal Street Productions company and are scheduled to begin shooting in mid-2025 for a planned 2027 cinematic release.
It has not yet been revealed if all four films will be released at the same time or whether they will be staggered across the year but Sony has promised an 'innovative release cadence'.
Mendes explained that he pitched the idea of making four films about the 'Hey Jude' group last year and wowed Sony executives Tom Rothman and Elizabeth Gabler with his plans.
The Skyfall filmmaker told Deadline earlier this year: 'We went out to Los Angeles just before Christmas to pitch the project, and it's fair to say we were met with universal enthusiasm.
'The reason Sony stood out from competing offers was down to Tom and Elizabeth's passion for the idea, and commitment to propelling these films theatrically in an innovative and exciting way.'
Representatives for the actors in question have been contacted by MailOnline for comment.
Actor Barry, 31, has risen to huge stardom in the last few years with roles in Saltburn and The Banshees of Inisherin.
While Paul, 28, soared to fame in BBC series Normal People and has gone on to be a household name.
Harris Dickinson, 27, is another young British talent, starring in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, where he played Prince Phillip, as well as The King’s Man, Where the Crawdads Sing and Triangle of Sadness.
And finally, Charlie Rowe is a 28-year-old British star, also known for playing George Osborne in ITV’s lavish 2018 adaptation of Vanity Fair.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
They are regarded as the most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.
It comes after Paul was recently linked to actress Natalie Portman, 42, after being spotted together in London last week.
The pair could not control their giggles as they enjoyed an evening out drinking at at Bar 69 in Islington.
Paul and Natalie - who interviewed each other for Variety last year - appeared in high spirits as they stepped outside for a cigarette.
Insiders have denied the two are romantically involved, pointing to their close friendship but Paul has made no secret of his admiration for Natalie.
When they interviewed each other last year, Paul described Natalie as 'brilliant' and admitted: 'If my drama school self knew that I would be talking to you, I would pinch myself many, many times!'
He also complimented her performance in May December, in which she shares a steamy sex scene with younger co-star Charles Melton, 33.
She starred in the film as an actress named Elizabeth researching a couple - Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles) - who had formed when she was 36 and he was 13, sparking a tabloid scandal.
Meanwhile, Natalie complimented Paul on his sex scenes with Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers, describing them as 'very hot but also very tender.'
Natalie finalised her divorce from Benjamin Millepied in France in March, bringing an end to a marriage of 12 years, her representative confirmed to People.
The former couple share two children - Aleph, 12, and Amalia, seven - and lived together in Benjamin's native France for several years.
Natalie filed for divorce last July, one month after the French magazine Voici ran a bombshell report claiming Benjamin, 46, had an affair with a famous 25-year-old environmental activist called Camille Étienne.
After the claims of his infidelity went public, a source told People Benjamin had a 'short-lived' fling with Camille, but that the dalliance was 'over.'
The insider added: 'He knows he made an enormous mistake and he is doing all he can to get Natalie to forgive him and keep their family together.'
However, by the following month, Natalie had filed for divorce, and by early this March the legal proceedings were finalised.
The closest she came to addressing her divorce in public was in Vanity Fair this February, when she was asked how it felt to have her marriage written about and replied: 'It’s terrible, and I have no desire to contribute to it.'
A friend revealed the collapse of Natalie's marriage was 'was initially really tough for her, but her friends rallied around her and helped get her through the worst of it.'
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Sony Pictures is producing four Beatles biopics directed by Sam Mendes. The films will have full life and music rights and will focus on each band member. Release plans will be announced later. Mendes' films will offer a unique cinematic experience. Music biopics have been box-office hits.
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Sony Pictures is producing four Beatles biopics directed by Sam Mendes. The films will have full life and music rights and will focus on each band member. Release plans will be announced later. Mendes' films will offer a unique cinematic experience. Music biopics have been box-office hits.
NEW YORK - The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in not just one film, but a Fab Four of movies that will give each band member their own spotlight - all of which are to be directed by Sam Mendes.
For the first time, the Beatles, long among the stingiest rights granters, are giving full life and music rights to a movie project. Sony Pictures announced Monday a deal that may dwarf all music biopics that have come before it, with the stories of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr spread out over a quartet of films.
The films, conceived by Mendes, are expected to roll out theatrically in innovative fashion, with the movies potentially coexisting or intersecting in theaters. Precise release plans will be announced at a later date. Sony is targeting 2027 for their release.
McCartney, Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison have all signed off on the project through the band's Apple Corps. Ltd. Sony Music Publishing controls the rights to the majority of Beatles songs.
"I'm honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies," Mendes said in a statement.
Each film will be from the perspective of a Beatle.
"We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time," said producer Pippa Harris. "To have The Beatles' and Apple Corps' blessing to do this is an immense privilege."
The Beatles' most famous forays into film were in their early years. Between 1964 and 1970, they appeared in five movies, including "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and the animated "Yellow Submarine" (1968). They've, of course, been the subject of many documentaries, most recently Peter Jackson's 2021 "The Beatles: Get Back."
In 2023, the Beatles reunited with the aid of artificial intelligence in the newly released song "Now and Then." The recording was made possible by technology used by Jackson on "Get Back," and featured a music video made by the New Zealand director.
Attempts to dramatize the Beatles' story have been more sporadic and less impactful. A 1979 biopic, made when Lennon was still alive, called "The Birth of the Beatles" was produced with Beatles original drummer Pete Best as an adviser. The 1994 indie drama "Backbeat" chronicled Lennon's relationship with Stuart Sutcliffe before the Beatles were famous. "Nowhere Boy" (2009) starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a teenage Lennon.
But in the last decade, music biopics have become big business. Box-office hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Rocketman" and "Elvis" have sent Hollywood executives chasing the next jukebox blockbuster. Over Presidents Day weekend, "Bob Marley: One Love," produced with the Marley estate, was the No. 1 movie in theaters. A Michael Jackson biopic is in production.
"Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam's daring, large-scale idea is that and then some," said Tom Rothman, chair and chief executive of Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group.
The combination of Mendes' team "with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe," Rothman said. "We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam's uniquely artistic vision."
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https://youtu.be/TWbiVqlSMgc Released: 1964 Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell Oscar Nominations: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Alun Owen), Best Music, Score (George Martin) SUMMARY: In 1964, Beatlemania is at its peak, and the band members -- John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star (all playing themselves) -- are swarmed…
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Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Oscar Nominations: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Alun Owen), Best Music, Score (George Martin)
SUMMARY: In 1964, Beatlemania is at its peak, and the band members — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star (all playing themselves) — are swarmed by teenage fans nearly every time they step outside. At the beginning of the film, they are headed to London to perform on a television show, and are aboard a train. In addition to their manager and road manager, the boys are accompanied by John McCartney (Wilfrid Brambell), Paul’s ornery, sour grandfather. The boys frequently pick on each other and play jokes, much to the annoyance of their manager, Norm. Norm soon learns that he has another problem on his hands: Paul’s grandfather, who insults the boys at every opportunity, and chases women mercilessly. After leaving him alone, the group returns to find that Granddad has vanished from their compartment: they eventually find him in a first-class compartment, sipping champagne with the woman inside. Following this incident, Granddad is confined to the baggage car, but the good-hearted boys and the managers soon join him, and play cards to pass the time. When the train arrives in London, the Beatles have to take a back exit from the train, then go through a waiting car and into another one in an attempt to avoid the waiting (screaming) crowd.
The band is taken to their hotel, where Norm quickly instructs them to remain for the rest of the evening. He hands them massive piles of fan mail to answer, but Ringo is disappointed that he does not get to follow up on an invitation to a casino. When he is again left alone, Granddad borrows the concierge’s tuxedo and goes to the casino himself, where he proceeds to cause a great ruckus. Norm, the road manager Shake, and all the boys come to get him some hours later, when he has won just enough money to cover the money he has spent. The next day, the entire group goes to the studio where the show will be performed and filmed, quite a few hours in advance. Both the band and Granddad cause minor problems, but several rehearsals go well. With extra time to kill, Ringo is put in charge of watching Granddad, and the two go to the cafeteria. There, Granddad persuades Ringo that he is missing out on life, and that is the reason the other boys constantly make fun of him. Ringo decides that Granddad is right, and leaves him in the cafeteria before heading out into the streets on his own. When he is quickly recognized, Ringo buys a trench coat and hat in a store, then knocks around town. While this is happening, Granddad is trying to sell knockoff autographed pictures of the band (he forged the signatures) to the young fans outside the studios. Inside, the program director is having conniptions, because Ringo is missing when it comes time for the final rehearsal. The other three Beatles volunteer to find him, but are unable to do so. Suddenly, Granddad appears, being chased by several policemen. He reveals Ringo’s location: the local police station, where he was taken ater being picked up for several minor charges. Granddad was also arrested and taken to the station, but was released. John, Paul and George again volunteer to get Ringo, so they go to the station and retrieve him, then engage in a back-and-forth chase with the police. The finally get back to the studio just in time to change their clothes and perform to a packed, screaming audience. After the concert, the band, Granddad and the two managers run to a waiting helicopter, and head to their next engagement.
MY TAKE: I know that I will probably make a lot of people angry when I say this, but I have never really liked the Beatles. I’m too young to appreciate the impact they had on music, and since their songs don’t thrill me, I really could care less. I actually think that a lot of their songs sound the same, based on the notes that they sing, and the songs are really simplistic (I know that this was partly due to the time period. For the record, I do like Elvis, so I’m not completely hopeless. But I don’t like the Rolling Stones). Furthermore, I think John Lennon was a jerk in his personal life, which kinda turns me off. But this movie came at the very beginning of their meteoric fame, so they were still four boys who were thrilled to be playing music together, and enjoyed the screaming hordes that constantly followed them. Ironically, this movie was made very quickly, because the director wanted to capitalize on the Beatlemania craze — which he was afraid might be a flash-in-the-pan type thing. Of course, we know now that the Beatles never really lost popularity. The film was amusing, but by the end I was getting tired of the constant running around, and of Granddad. The old man is just a complete pain in the ass, and he’s not very nice, either. I seriously doubt that Paul’s grandfather would be allowed to come with them without some other sort of supervisor, and I know that security on both him and the Beatles would have been more strict. Seriously, when girls scream and chase them every time they step outside, I don’t think they would go down to the police station to get Ringo by themselves, let alone have this idea endorsed by their managers. Actually, I’m pretty sure that their entourage would be much bigger. And more competent. Naturally, the film is interspersed with Beatles songs, part of which made up the album with the same name as the movie. It’s not horrible, but like their music, it didn’t really do anything for me. I’m sure tons of people disagree with this review, but that’s my opinion.
Fun fact: Both Charlotte Rampling and Phil Collins appear in minor, uncredited roles in the movie: Phil Collins is one of the kids at the TV performance, while Charlotte Rampling is one of the nightclub dancers. Obviously, Phil Collins went on to be in Genesis, before starting a wildly successful solo career; Charlotte Rampling stayed in the acting business, and was nominated for Best Actress at the 2015 Oscars for her role in 45 Years.
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Sir Paul McCartney is among a host of celebrities to pay tribute to the actor Victor Spinetti, who has died from cancer at the age of 82.
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Sir Paul McCartney has joined a host of celebrities to pay tribute to the actor Victor Spinetti, who has died at the age of 82.
Born to an Italian-Welsh father and Welsh mother in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Spinetti was a regular performer in London's West End as well as with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He appeared in more than 30 films, including three Beatles movies.
Sir Paul spoke about Spinetti's "wit and exuberant personality".
The former Beatle struck up a friendship with the Welshman during filming for the first Beatles film, A Hard Day's Night.
"Victor was a fine man, a great pal and a fantastic actor and someone I am proud to have known for many years," said Sir Paul.
"His irreverent wit and exuberant personality will remain in my memory forever.
"I will miss his loyal friendship, as will all the others who were lucky enough to know and love the wonderful Mr Spinetti."
Spinetti died at a hospice in Monmouth on Monday morning, said his agent Barry Burnett.
"He had cancer for a year, but he was very cheerful to the end," said Mr Burnett.
"I spoke to him on Friday and he was talking about his plans and everything."
News of his death prompted a stream of tributes from fans and members of the entertainment world on Twitter.
Barbara Windsor, a lifelong friend and co-star in Oh! What a Lovely War, had visited Spinetti last Thursday.
"We were very close. He was another of my great friends from that era. He was such a great man," she said.
"We just chatted and chatted and talked about old things. But he said, 'let's not talk about all that, let's talk about the future'."
Actor Rob Brydon tweeted: "So sad Victor Spinetti has died. The funniest story teller I've ever met and a lovely warm man. Proud to have been his friend. 'Eh, Vic...'"
Britt Ekland, actor, wrote: "Just heard my wonderful friend, co writer and director Victor Spinetti died. Am devastated to have lost a true acting genius."
Welsh actor Sian Phillips told BBC Wales she was shocked and saddened, adding: "He was such a force of joy and vitality. When one saw him across a crowded room, one couldn't wait to get together with him and have a chat and a catch-up."
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1984 British musical film
Give My Regards to Broad StreetDirected byPeter WebbScreenplay byPaul McCartneyProduced byAndros EpaminondasStarringPaul McCartney
Bryan Brown
Ringo Starr
Barbara Bach
Linda McCartney
Tracey Ullman
Ralph RichardsonCinematographyIan McMillanEdited byPeter BestonMusic byPaul McCartney
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Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
Running time
108 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBudget$9 million[1]Box office$1.4 million
Give My Regards to Broad Street is a 1984 British musical-drama film directed by Peter Webb. It stars Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown and Ringo Starr. The film covers a fictional day in the life of McCartney, who wrote the film for the screen, and McCartney, Starr and Linda McCartney all appear as themselves. Despite Give My Regards to Broad Street being unsuccessful, both financially and critically, its soundtrack album sold well. The title is a take on George M. Cohan's song "Give My Regards to Broadway" and refers to London's Broad Street railway station. It was the first appearance for McCartney in a non-documentary feature film since Help! (1965) and is currently his last starring role in a feature film.
Filming and recording of Broad Street began in November 1982 after the completion of Pipes of Peace. Production on the album and film continued until July the following year. In the interim, Pipes of Peace and its singles were released, and the film project was scheduled for an autumn 1984 release.
Paul (Paul McCartney) is stuck in a traffic jam in his chauffeur-driven car on his way to an interview. He daydreams that he is driving himself in a flashier car crammed with modern technology around the countryside when he gets a call from Steve (Bryan Brown) that Harry (Ian Hastings), a reformed criminal, is missing along with the master tapes he was supposed to give to the factory the previous day. Paul races to the studio to find that the police are there investigating the matter, thinking that Harry is back to his old ways. The news gets worse when Mr. Rath (John Bennett), to whom the studio owes money, arrives with the news that he will take over the record company if the tapes aren't found by midnight.
Following the meeting, the film follows a day in the life of Paul and his work with wife Linda McCartney and friend Ringo Starr, which includes filming two videos, rehearsing in a loft, and recording performances for the radio. In between videos, Paul wonders what Harry might have done: Did he give the master tapes to be bootlegged, did he just run off, or was he murdered? During several songs, Paul has elaborate fantasies in various settings and costumes inspired by his predicament. Once the day is done, Paul drives around London, and his associates brace themselves for the takeover as midnight approaches. While driving towards Broad Street, Paul remembers that Harry was headed there when he last saw him and goes exploring the station. Eventually, he finds the blue case containing the tapes on a platform bench, and Harry in a small maintenance building nearby, where he accidentally trapped himself looking for the toilet. They both laugh, they drive off, Paul informs Linda, Linda informs the studio that the tapes have been found, and the takeover is averted. Paul's chauffeur-driven car finally arrives at its destination, and he is awoken from his nap.
The film was the result of a long-held ambition of McCartney, a lifelong film fan, to become involved in acting again after his success with the Beatles' films. Give My Regards to Broad Street was described in the press as McCartney's first film in 14 years, but Rockshow had been released four years earlier.
Broad Street was one of the later film appearances of Ralph Richardson, who plays an older man named Jim that McCartney visits late in the movie, looking for Harry. Some critics have pointed out Jim's similarity to McCartney's father (who was also named James; Richardson's character refers to McCartney as "son") and appears to be something of a poet—the elder McCartney had his own jazz band in the 1940s. (McCartney has said that he based the character on Polonius from Hamlet.)
The 13-minute animated film Rupert and the Frog Song was shown in cinemas immediately preceding Give My Regards to Broad Street. The short film contained the song "We All Stand Together", sung by McCartney and "the Frog Chorus". Simultaneously with the film's premiere in November, "We All Stand Together" was released as a single and became a hit in the UK, reaching #3.
A video game based on the film was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computers in 1985. The game was developed by Argus Press Software and released in its Mind Games series. The C64 version was published by Mastertronic in the U.S. (Cat. no. ICD-0082).
The game takes place after the action of the film and it is discovered that one track from the album was missing from the recovered tapes. The missing track was going to be the lead single so without it, the studio is back in jeopardy. The player takes the role of McCartney, who must travel around London to track down members of the band and other people who were at the original studio session to help piece the track back together. The game package contained a fold out map of London[2] and profiles of the characters which the player needs to use to predict where to find them.
Although its soundtrack was a success, the film was met with negative reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one out of four stars, praising its music as "wonderful" but wrote that it "is about as close as you can get to a nonmovie, and the parts that do try something are the worst." He particularly criticized the long, irrelevant dream sequences and the poor photography, and he advised readers to buy the soundtrack album and not bother to see the film.[3]
Retrospectively, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has clocked the film’s positive review score at 25% based on reviews by 16 critics.[4]
"No More Lonely Nights", a song from the film, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Original Song-Motion Picture.
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Sam Mendes will direct four movies about each Beatle, slated for release in 2027 with an “innovative and groundbreaking” release schedule
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In a gamble so crazy it just might work, director Sam Mendes has teamed up with the two living Beatles for a truly ambitious project: four different movies, each from the perspective of a different member of the band, all slated for release in 2027. “I’m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” Mendes said in a statement, which boasted that this is the first time that Apple Corps Ltd — the rights holder to the Beatles catalog — as well as Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison have granted life story and music rights for a scripted feature film.
Each film will be told from the point of view of a different band member, and will eventually “intersect to tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history.” Sony will distribute the films worldwide in 2027 and with this intriguing promise: “The dating cadence of the films, the details of which will be shared closer to release, will be innovative and groundbreaking.”
Is it really true that you couldn’t tell the story of The Beatles in a single feature film? Who knows. But this is undeniably a big swing, an upfront commitment to four feature films and an assumption that come 2027, audiences will buy tickets to the first one and then be clamoring to come back for the next three. The commitment, oddly enough, feels like a vote of confidence in Kevin Costner’s gamble for this summer, a two-part original Western that Warner Bros. will release in theaters on June 28 and then on August 16. But it also could be a sign of where the movie industry is headed in general, away from the tangled cinematic universes that have worn us all out and toward what television has been excelling at for over a decade: the limited series.
Yes, yes, single stories told in multiple installments have been around as long as there’s been a Hollywood, and making four Beatles movies at the same time is not so different from committing to three Lord of the Rings films back in the late 90s. But it’s not hard to imagine film executives looking enviously at what HBO has with The White Lotus or Netflix had with The Queen’s Gambit, stories that captivate people for hours upon hours and inspire them to keep coming back for more — except, if you’re in the theater, that means paying to come back for more. The upfront commitment to multiple feature films is a risk that doesn’t always pay off, as Universal’s attempted Exorcist franchise reboot has proven.
But if we learned anything from the weeks of discussion around Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary series Get Back, The Beatles still hold a unique fascination — and, somehow, there are still new stories to tell about them. Sony is certainly not holding back in promising just how much these films have the potential to upend biopic expectations: “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic,” studio chief Tom Rothman said in a statement. “Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some.” Now he’s got three years to make good on that.
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The Beatles released their album (and its title track) A Hard Day’s Night in 1964, also starring in a film of the same title. Appearing as an actor was “very frightening,” according to one songwriter.
The Beatles released their film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr made history as the rock band The Beatles. They’re also the actors behind A Hard Day’s Night. Directed by Richard Lester, this film starred all four members of the Beatles.
“At first — and I think we all had a terrible time tryin’ to learn lines, ‘cuz we wouldn’t anyway,” Ringo Starr said during A Hard Day’s Night’s promotional interview in July 1964. “We used to sort of read them and try and learn them before we went on the set.”
Paul McCartney said it was ‘frightening’ filming ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ with the Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night meant these musicians appeared as actors. Although they’re chart-topping songwriters, creating this 1964 film was “very frightening,” according to one Beatles member.
“Yeah, I agree, you know,” McCartney said in the same interview. “It was very hard to just learn a line and say it, because we’ve never done that sort of thing before. We’ve always just thought of something and said it, rather than actually read something on a piece of paper. But I think towards the end of making the film, we got the hang of it a little bit more.
“At first, it was very frightening, you know,” he added. “It was nerve-wracking trying to say these things as though we meant them– ‘cuz that takes training as an actor, I reckon. So you know, we had to try and make it look convincing without having any experience.”
The Beatles released their animated film ‘Yellow Submarine,’ in addition to ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
Years later, the Beatles released the animated production Yellow Submarine, which received praise from fans. Other artists commended the Beatles on their marketing, including Mike Love of the Beach Boys.
“They… knew how to exploit their commercial value,” he wrote in Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. “They understood film in ways that we did not: A Hard Day’s Night, starring the Beatles was released in 1964, at the height of Beatlemania, because [it was] one of the most influential music films of all time.”
Of course, the Beatles released a song titled “A Hard Day’s Night,” now available on most major streaming platforms. On Spotify, the track has over 170 million plays. The Beatles’ song was released in 1964, written by the Lennon-McCartney duo.
“It’s been a hard day’s night,” the lyrics state. “And I’ve been workin’ like a dog / It’s been a hard day’s night / I should be sleepin’ like a log / But when I get home to you / I find the things that you do / Will make me feel alright.”
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Talking the career trajectories of Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd vis-a-vis the John Landis-directed music video for Paul McCartney's "Spies Like Us" in the latest From the Stereo to Your Screen.
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Released in December of 1985, the John Landis-directed Cold War comedy Spies Like Us is one of those movies that those of us of a certain age have likely seen dozens of times, thanks to a regular rotation on HBO. It’s basically a modern update of the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope road movies from the ’40s and ’50s, wherein two guys end up having to pretend they’re someone they’re not as they get lost in some far-off foreign land.
I fucking love this movie. While most folks remember it for the perfectly-delivered, nigh-brilliant “doctor” scene in the midst of the desert, the first third or so is probably my favorite, wherein stars Chevy Chase (as Emmett Fitz-Hume) and Dan Aykroyd (as Austin Millbarge) get to be their most Chase and Aykroyd-ish. The test-taking scene is absurd and perfect, and Bernie Casey as Colonel Rhumbus brings in maybe my favorite training montage parody in the whole of cinema.
This is to say nothing of cameos from Frank Oz, Terry Gilliam, Ray Harryhausen, Joel Coen, Sam Raimi, Bob Hope, B.B. King, and Larry Cohen, none of which I recognized (aside from Hope) as a kid, making this the sort of movie which is strikingly rewarding to visit as an adult. I’m also fairly certain that combining Risk and Trivial Pursuit as a means to eradicate nuclear armaments couldn’t be any worse than the way things go today.
I know that Chevy Chase is fairly notable for being a huge asshole and Dan Aykroyd has really fallen into the nostalgia trap the last decade or so, but these two were comedy gods in their prime. For Chase, Spies Like Us came at the end of a year which also included Fletch and National Lampoon’s European Vacation, with Three Amigos coming out a year later. Aykroyd was in the midst of a run which had seen Trading Places in ’83 and Ghostbusters in ’84. His output after this is iffy – Dragnet and The Great Outdoors have their charms, but My Stepmother Is An Alien is awful, and he’s certainly no Bill Murray in Caddyshack II – making Spies Like Us his Name of the Rose.
The film has a notable musical moment in it – featuring a bunch of Soviet soldiers blaring the Bar-Kays’ “Soulfinger” in the middle of the Siberian wilderness – but the majority of the film consists of Elmer Bernstein’s superbly epic score, which evokes the globe-trotting adventures of Fitz-Hume and Millbarge, and definitely hails back to the era of the road movies Spies Like Us homages.
Strangely, though I’ve seen this movie so mething like 20+ times, I never realized that there’s a titular song which plays over the closing credits, and it’s by Paul McCartney. He’s always been famous, and this song actually came after a string of hits for the former Beatle. He’d had two tracks with Michael Jackson – “The Girl Is Mine” in ’82 and “Say Say Say” in ’83, along with taking part in the ’84 Band Aid single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
“Spies Like Us” actually made it to number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early February of 1986, and it was McCartney’s last top ten single until “FourFiveSeconds” with Rihanna and Kanye West hit the number two spot nearly thirty years later in February of 2015.
So, the video, right? I’d never seen it until earlier this year, because aside from the Michael Jackson collabs, I don’t really know any Paul McCartney stuff after the Wings’ movie, Rockshow. It was also just too early for me to be watching MTV, and unless we’re talking “Monster Squad Rap,” I pretty much shut most movies off once the credits started rolling until I was in high school and started toward movie nerd status.
Speaking of nerd status, I was pretty godsmacked by this Rolling Stone Flashback piece where I found out Landis directed the video for “Spies Like Us,” and that Roger Ebert got pretty lecherous in his review, which makes reading the piece worthwhile on its own.
The intro to the video has some nice nods to the movie, with the Ace Tomato Company truck pulling up to Abbey Road Studios and Chase, Aykroyd, and McCartney all in various disguises. It gets to be pretty standard fare after its intro, with McCartney in the studio, playing the track, as clips from the film are interspersed. The musician is playing all the parts — that is, until the mustachioed version of him pulls off a mask to reveal he’s actually Dan Aykroyd, then pulls off that mask to reveal he’s Chevy Chase. Playing keyboards! While Aykroyd rocks out in the recording booth! Lots of rubber masks in “Spies Like Us,” really.
I’m a big fan of videos wherein the people from the movie are actually in it in ways other than just clips, so this wins that round: not only are Chase and Aykroyd in it, but actresses Vanessa Angel and Donna Dixon show up as the background vocalists. To make it even better, they do that thing where they edit in clips to make it look like the video’s part of the film. Aykroyd holding up the phone in the booth so that the generals can hear it is a nice touch.
The song’s fine. It’s not particularly spy-like, and it’s certainly no “Live and Let Die,” but goddamn, is it catchy. It’s also certainly less cloying than “Say Say Say” or “The Girl is Mine,” both of which have videos that are … less than great. This is a much lower budget than either of those, but it’s not nearly as irritating. Plus, in terms of the song, coming after a slew of holiday music, I’m sure it felt like a breath of fresh air.
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Sony and Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes’ ambitious plans to make four separate theatrical films, one on each of the members of The Beatles, is running full steam ahead. We have a potential major development in casting.
The InSneider is reporting that Harris Dickinson (John Lennon), Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney), Barry Keoghan (Ringo Starr), and Charlie Rowe (George Harrison) are rumored to portray the Fab Four. These films are set to be interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view.
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Before anyone saw the movie, its title promised something different from the ruck of cheapo rock ‘n roll films: A Hard Day’s WHAT? As producer Walter Shenson told it, he and director Richard Lester were nearly finished shooting their little picture with the Beatles but had no name for it. Then John Lennon told Shenson that Ringo Starr occasionally mutilated the English language in droll ways. Example: to suggest his exhaustion after an evening’s concertizing and partying, Ringo would say, “It’s been a hard day’s night.” Shenson told Lennon that he and Paul McCartney should write a song with that title, pronto. The next morning they delivered a catchy 12-bar blues riff with a soaring bridge, about a working stiff whose girlfriend makes all his toil worthwhile. Plaaaang!
That’s the sound of the song’s first, long guitar chord — a brash wakeup call to the audience. The film’s first shot is just as startling: three of the Liverpool lads running toward the camera down a narrow sidewalk, hemmed in by parked cars. The screams of pursuing Beatlemaniacs rises under the song’s first phrase, as George Harrison, in the foreground with John, trips and falls, Ringo collapsing over him. John looks back, his deadpan face breaking into a wide smile, and George gets up to carry on running away from their fans and into the Marylebone train station. Now all three are laughing, perhaps at the silliness of pop stardom, while the sacred words THE BEATLES briskly unfurl across the screen, followed by A HARD DAY’S NIGHT.
(FIND: A Hard Day’s Night on the all-TIME 100 Movies list)
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as A Hard Day’s Night? Directed by Richard Lester, then 32, and starring four musicians, the eldest of whom (Ringo) was 23, the film showed the world’s most famous foursome at that split second when they and their fans could enjoy their early apogee of superstardom. In the years until their 1970 breakup, the Beatles’ influence would broaden, their music become more sophisticated, their politics more complicated. But the world premiere of A Hard Day’s Night at London’s Pavilion Theatre on July 6, 1964 — 50 years ago today — marked the full flourish of Beatlemania on screen, in all its wit, musical bravado and, if we may say it about a canny rock band, innocence.
For the 50th anniversary, the film is showing in theaters in 100 U.S. cities, including Manhattan’s Film Forum. And the Criterion Collection has issued a 4K digital restoration of the film, which necessitated replacing missing parts of the original negative; and Giles Martin, whose father George produced most of the Beatles’ music, had to use a monaural mix of the movie’s closing song, “She Loves You,” for the stereo track. The result is a splendid tribute to this endearing, enduring film — which, when it opened here in August 1964, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice called “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.”
(READ: Corliss’s tribute to legendary film critic Andrew Sarris)
Prescient and true: AHDT revolutionized pop musicals with the same thunder-clap force that Orson Welles brought to the Hollywood drama, and that Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho infused into the horror film. A very local comedy with universal appeal, a daring blend of documentary and surrealism, Lester’s G-rated movie junked the tropes of traditional Hollywood musicals and instead found its muses in France: the avant-garde subversion of Luis Buñuel and Jean Vigo and the cinematic playfulness of New Wavers François Truffaut an Jean-Luc Godard. Lester punctuated the movie with swish pans, arc-light glares and an editing pace of controlled frenzy; he broke a thousand filmmaking rules and in the process established new ones that would reverberate decades later in music videos.
(In a making-of extra on the Criterion discs, the director says that “MTV gave me a very nice diploma … saying that I was the putative father of MTV.” He smiled and added, “But I’ve insisted on a blood test.”)
In the decade before AHDN, there were only two kinds of movies with pop stars. A hot star like Elvis Presley (and, in Britain, Cliff Richard) would be cast as a fictional character in an A-minus drama with music. (Frank Sinatra did the same in his ’40s films.) Or, down on the B-minus level, performers like Chuck Berry and Little Richard would play a couple songs as backup to a story of teen striving (as in the Alan Freed-hosted Rock Around the Clock and Mr. Rock ‘n Roll). The first kind of film tried to turn a pop sensation into fodder for the mainstream audience; that’s how Elvis got neutered in movies. The second kind used the artists as teen bait, then gave them only a few minutes on screen. The Beatles didn’t want any of that. AHDN was the first mainstream rock movie that seemed designed mainly to amuse its makers.
(READ: The Beatles Conquer America — 50 Years Later)
It all came together in a flash. In late 1963, Shenson, an American who had produced the 1959 Peter Sellers comedy hit The Mouse That Roared and its less successful sequel The Mouse on the Moon, agreed to produce a musical comedy starring the Beatles, who were just launching into the pop Britosphere. Shenson’s studio back home, United Artists, had no sybil’s foreknowledge of the band’s unique fame; it just wanted an album of new songs to promote, which would make back the film’s modest $500,000 investment.
Even after the Beatles conquered America on The Ed Sullivan Show and monopolized the pop charts like no recording artists before them, a UA executive asked that voice actors dub the Fab Four’s accents into a more intelligible mid-Atlantic patois. McCartney’s response: “Look, if we can understand a f–kin’ cowboy talking Texan, they can understand us talking Liverpool.”
Lester could understand Liverpool. A Philadelphian who had worked in live TV drama in his teens, he had come to London, embraced its comic quirkiness and adopted its accent; it was said he’d become so English that he wanted his surname spelled Leicester. He had directed the jazz musical It’s Trad, Dad and, for Shenson, Mouse on the Moon.
More important to the Beatles, who loved that long-running radio anarchy The Goon Show, Lester had helmed an 11-minute experimental comedy called The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film with Goons Sellers and Spike Milligan. (This short film’s outdoor shenanigans directly inspired surreal bits in AHDN like the Beatles running along outside the train they were just inside, as well as the “Can’t Buy Me Love” field frolic.) The four also approved of Alun Owen, the Liverpudlian writer of TV dramas, to pen the script.
(READ: Peter Sellers and The Goon Show)
The speed at which A Hard Day’s Night was conceived and born testifies both to UA’s original suspicion that the project would be a B-movie promo and to the industry and artistry its makers invested in it. Lennon and McCartney wrote about eight songs on a brief January holiday in Jamaica, leaving Lester and Owen to fit the songs somehow into a scenario about a day or two in the band’s hectic life. Shooting began Mar. 2 at Marylebone, climaxed late that month at the Scala Theatre where the band played for their fans and more or less finished on April 23, when Paul, George and Ringo cavorted on Thornsbury Playing Fields in Middlesex for the “Can’t Buy Me Love” segment. (John, at a signing for his book In His Own Write, was mostly absent from that larkishness.)
Shot in doc-style black-and-white, AHDN had a secret sibling film in What’s Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A., shot during their first visit to America by the cinéma-vérité pioneers Albert and David Maysles. What’s Happening also depicts the Beatles routine: same dashing from train to limo to photo op to TV stage, the same release of tension on a dance-club floor, the same use of wit as armor against imprisonment and ennui — and the same amazing display of geniality by four blithe Liverpudlians. Also the same directorial nimbleness: the Maysles brothers learned of their assignment two hours before the Beatles’ plane landed at JFK airport on Feb. 7, 1964. Artists had faster reflexes then.
(READ: TIME’s 1964 review of the Lester and Maysles Beatles films)
AHDN didn’t open in the States until Aug. 11, more than a month after the London premiere, and for those of us who were young back then it was an essential votive experience. I remember seeing it at a movie house in suburban Philadelphia. I say seeing; hearing was out of the question, due to the shrieks of the band’s bobbysoxer brigade. The theater, I swear, was informally divided into quadrants, each inhabited by the attendant sisters of one band member: John in the lower left, Paul in the lower right, etc. A closeup of one Beatle would cue a communal wail from his quadrant. It was the sweetest form of pandemonium.
The Philadelphia girls, consciously nor not, were imitating the film’s climactic sequence, which intercuts shots of the band performing “She Loves You” with reaction shots from the young audience, and returns occasionally to girls mouthing the names of their particular heroes. The unforgettable one is a pretty blond undergoing a kind of anguished ecstasy. She is seen four times: first clutching her hair, then crying into her hand, then sobbing hand to head and finally, at the song’s last break (“You know you shou-ou-ou-ould…”) silently keening a desperate “George.” On one of the Criterion extras, we learn that editor John Jympson called this girl “the white rabbit.”
(READ: How The Beatles changed rock ‘n roll)
Ten years later, in Film Comment, I wrote my first Beatles nostalgia piece: “You probably have to be about my age — turning 30, and none too pleased about it — to look back nostalgically on a period as recent as 1964, and to smile crookedly when you think of A Hard Day’s Night. Most of us were the last stragglers of the ’50s… all we had were the private passions of movies and rock ‘n roll, which our teachers considered occasions of sin and not yet adventures in scholarship. With the Beatles, and specifically with A Hard Day’s Night, the unspeakable became acceptable. … A Hard Day’s Night today retains its vigor, its good humor, its Lancashire courtliness and easy grace. … We can also find in the film what we responded to then: its perfect distillation of a moment when, for a lot of us, it felt good to be young. … [Now,] we’ve aged, and it hasn’t.”
Another 40 years later, I have aged and the movie still hasn’t. Maybe the Beatles, perhaps even Lester and his team, didn’t know what they made, it soon became clear, was history — and did it with such good humor and blithe, unflappable grace. That’s a big reason for the unique then-and-now status of A Hard Day’s Night: it is both completely of its time and utterly forever.
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In an exclusive Screen Rant interview, Yesterday director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Richard Curtis discuss why Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr donât have cameos. ⦠While speaking with Screen Rantâs Alex Leadbeater, Yesterdayâs director and screenwriter revealed why the two surviving Beatles donât have cameos.
Also, Is Julian Lennon in the movie Yesterday?
Yesterdayâs big cameo features a 78-year-old Lennon, a man who accepts a strange guest at his seaside home.
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In an exclusive Screen Rant interview, Yesterday director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Richard Curtis discuss why Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr donât have cameos. ⦠While speaking with Screen Rantâs Alex Leadbeater, Yesterdayâs director and screenwriter revealed why the two surviving Beatles donât have cameos.
Also, Is Julian Lennon in the movie Yesterday?
Yesterdayâs big cameo features a 78-year-old Lennon, a man who accepts a strange guest at his seaside home. His appearance affects Jack in a profound way, and thematically calls back to the first act inciting incident: the bus accident. Jack is led to Lennon by two loyal fans.
Accordingly, Does Himesh Patel really sing in Yesterday?
In the case of Yesterday, the Beatles-centric jukebox musical film, the answer is a resounding âyes.â Star Himesh Patel, who plays a struggling singer-songwriter who somehow is the only person on Earth who remembers the Beatles, does all his own singing in the movie.
in the same way Where is John Lennonâs house in Yesterday?
Who played John Lennon? Toward the final act, Jack travels to a faraway house (shot on Shingle Street in Suffolk) to visit an old man. It turns out to be John Lennon, who, in this alternate timeline, became an old man living a modest, peaceful life.
Did Himesh Patel really lose his teeth?
Itâs all movie magic, of course! Although theyâre soon fixed in the film, the altered appearance of his teeth was done courtesy of the excellent Fangs FX. They specialise in teeth and facial prosthetics and have been working in the industry since 1984.
Does Himesh Patel do the singing in Yesterday?
Himesh Patelâs role in the new movie âYesterdayâ requires him to sing and play much of The Beatlesâ enduring back catalogue. ⦠Patel plays the fictional character Jack Malik, a struggling musician who wakes up after a blackout and finds himself in a world in which The Beatles donât exist.
Did Himesh Patel sing in Yesterday?
Does he really sing and play instruments in Yesterday? He does indeed! ⦠Instead of being sent a script, Himesh was asked to sing and play a Coldplay song of his choice on acoustic guitar. He chose the lesser-known song âWe Never Changeâ from the bandâs 2000 debut album Parachutes.
How did Himesh Patel get cast in yesterday?
âI just got an email from my agent saying there was an audition for this film,â he says. Instead of reading lines, Patel was asked to perform a Coldplay song of his choice on acoustic guitar. ⦠â[Himesh] has this ability to make you feel them anew,â the director said of Patelâs Beatles covers.
Is Himesh Patel a Beatles fan?
First things first: Himesh Patel wasnât always a Beatles fan. Growing up, he preferred indie rock (the Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys) and Bollywood (especially A.R. Rahmanâs soundtrack to âRang De Basantiâ) to the Fab Four, even if âImagineâ was his momâs favorite song.
What actor played John Lennon in yesterday?
Who plays John Lennon in Yesterday? Although it was kept a secret until the filmâs release (and not revealed in the credits either), Robert Carlyle plays John Lennon in Yesterday.
Did they actually film Yesterday at Wembley?
It gets its title from the Beatles song of the same name. Yesterday was announced in March 2018. Filming began the following month around England, particularly Norfolk and Halesworth in Suffolk. Photography also took place at Wembley Stadium, the Principality Stadium, and in Los Angeles.
What happened to the Beatles in Yesterday?
In the end, Yesterday reaffirms that the Beatlesâ catalog remains among the greatest songs ever written. ⦠After they finally get together as the couple they were meant to be, Yesterday ends with a lovely montage of Jack and Ellie marrying, raising children, and living a happy life together set to âOb-La-Di, Ob-La-Daâ.
What did Ringo think of the movie Yesterday?
Ringo Starr âlovedâ Richard Curtis and Danny Boyleâs Beatles movie âYesterdayâ âI mean, what a great concept!â Ringo Starr has given the thumbs up to Yesterday, the recent Beatles movie directed by Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis.
Is Himesh Patel Dev Patelâs brother?
He is 28-year-old Himesh Patel. ⦠Both Dev and Himesh Patel were born and brought up in suburban London and both started their film careers on British television. And yes, if Himesh Patel is starring in Yesterday, Devâs voice featured in animation film titled Only Yesterday.
How do actors fake missing teeth?
To recreate a realistic fight scene, the dental technician makes a set of acrylic veneers with one tooth loosely held in place with wax. When the fake punch is thrown, the actor pops that tooth out and releases a small packet of blood placed under his lip to create the illusion of a broken, bloody tooth.
Who was John Lennon in the movie Yesterday?
Although it was kept a secret until the filmâs release (and not revealed in the credits either), Robert Carlyle plays John Lennon in Yesterday.
Is the actor in yesterday actually singing?
In the case of Yesterday, the Beatles-centric jukebox musical film, the answer is a resounding âyes.â Star Himesh Patel, who plays a struggling singer-songwriter who somehow is the only person on Earth who remembers the Beatles, does all his own singing in the movie.
Is Himesh Patel Indian?
Patel was born on 13 October, 1990 in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire. His parents are both Gujarati (Indian) but they were born in Africa. His mother was born in Zambia and his father was born in Kenya. He grew up speaking Gujarati.
What was Himesh Patel in?
Himesh Jitendra Patel (born 13 October 1990) is an English actor, musician and singer. He is known for playing Tamwar Masood on the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2016 and for starring in the 2019 musical romantic comedy film Yesterday, and the science fiction action film Tenet with John David Washington.
Is the actor in Yesterday actually singing?
In the case of Yesterday, the Beatles-centric jukebox musical film, the answer is a resounding âyes.â Star Himesh Patel, who plays a struggling singer-songwriter who somehow is the only person on Earth who remembers the Beatles, does all his own singing in the movie.
Does Julian Lennon have a child?
Julian Lennon has never married or had children. He has said in the past that his difficult relationship with his father had discouraged him from having long term relationships. âHe was young and didnât know what the hell he was doing,â Lennon said. âThatâs the reason I havenât had children yet.
Why was Ed Sheeran in yesterday?
Previously, director Danny Boyle had said that Sheeran was second choice for the film, having never approached Styles. ⦠In the film, Ed Sheeran plays himself and invites Malik to appear as his support act after hearing him sing âIn My Lifeâ on the television.
Did the actor in yesterday actually sing?
He is credited as a producer for the 2017 feature film My Pure Land. In 2019, he made his film debut with his breakthrough role as Jack Malik in Yesterday (2019). He sings live throughout the film, covering various songs by The Beatles.
Did Ed Sheeran help write yesterday?
Ed Sheeran has revealed that he was the âthird choiceâ for his role in the musical comedy Yesterday. The 2019 film, written by Richard Curtis, starred Himesh Patel as Jack, an aspiring musician who wakes up from an accident to find that he is the only person in the world to remember The Beatles.
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A Hard Day’s Night, British comedy-musical film, released in 1964, that starred the Beatles in their first feature movie. Released during the height of Beatlemania and the British Invasion, A Hard Day’s Night is now widely considered a classic. The musical presents a fictitious account of 36 hours
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A Hard Day’s Night, British comedy-musical film, released in 1964, that starred the Beatles in their first feature movie. Released during the height of Beatlemania and the British Invasion, A Hard Day’s Night is now widely considered a classic.
The musical presents a fictitious account of 36 hours in the life of the Beatles, who portray themselves as they travel to London and attempt to record a performance on television while evading fanatical teenage admirers. Film critic Rex Reed derisively referred to playwright Alun Owen’s script of A Hard Day’s Night as a “non-screenplay.” Yet it is precisely the inspired anarchy of Owen’s screenplay—so suited to the Beatles’ personalties that they appear to be improvising—that distinguishes this landmark musical. Until A Hard Day’s Night, rock-and-roll movies were tame, sanitized affairs designed to conform to an older audiences’s sense of morality. This seemingly unstructured look at the Beatles took the world by storm by proving that the lads from Liverpool not only were great musicians but also had an irreverent sense of humour that was compared to that of the Marx Brothers and of BBC Radio’s The Goon Show. The Beatles got memorable support from character actor Wilfred Brambell as Paul’s “clean old man” of a grumpy grandfather.
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When A Hard Day’s Night was first released everyone was expecting the English pop groups’ version of an Elvis movie, It Happened at the British Open or something as nonsensical as that. Just have John Lennon and Paul McCartney pump out a half a dozen or so new songs, create a soundtrack, release the…
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When A Hard Day’s Night was first released everyone was expecting the English pop groups’ version of an Elvis movie, It Happened at the British Open or something as nonsensical as that. Just have John Lennon and Paul McCartney pump out a half a dozen or so new songs, create a soundtrack, release the album and sell millions for United Artists. The studio was just looking to cash in on the music quickly before the fad of Beatlemania would fade from the memory of teenagers around the world. In February 1964, The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show where more than 60 million viewers watched. The time was ripe for a film, but it had to be made quick and cheap, United Artists, not wanting to spring for any extra dollars. What producer, Walter Shenson, got along with the studio, the music critics and the public, instead was a surprisingly energetic, pulsating, witty, frenetic, somewhat fictional day in the life that film critic Andrew Sarris, in his original Village Voice review, called “the Citizen Kane of juke-box musicals.”
Prior to A Hard Day’s Night, rock and roll musicals were a disreputable lot consisting of Alan Freed “extravaganzas” which were mostly excuses to bring early rock and roll singers like Little Richard, Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry along with Doo-Wop groups such as The Flamingos and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers on to the big screen surrounded usually with the simple idea of putting on a big show for the kids against the wishes of parents, teachers, local town leaders and other narrow minded authority figures. Not much better were the Elvis movies, though some of his early films (King Creole, Jailhouse Rock, and Flaming Star) reflected signs of an untapped acting talent up there on the screen. Disappointingly, by the time A Hard Day’s Night arrived, Elvis’ films had been reduced to the stale pabulum formula of Fun in Acapulco, Kissin’ Cousins and It Happened at the World’s Fair, generally with songs just as bland and forgetable as the titles (The Bullfighter Was a Lady, Barefoot Ballad, Cotton Candyland). Other films during this period, the early 1960’s, exploited the Twist dance craze (Hey Let’s Twist, Don’t Knock the Twist, Twist Around the Clock). Then there were the A.I.P. Frankie and Annette Muscle Ski Bikini Pajama Beach Party movies which were not much better. So in July 1964, when a small black and white film starring the English mop tops was released, the only thing anyone was expecting was a lot of money to be rolling into United Artists bank account.
Then it happened! Right from the earliest frames, as soon as you heard the first note of the title song, you could tell this was not going to be just another standard run of the mill Elvis/Beach Party rip off. Here was a film with sardonic wit, shot and edited by filmmakers in an exhilarating cheeky, hip, innovative way. Director Richard Lester, who previously worked with producer Walter Shenson on The Mouse That Roared, was an American living and working in London since the 1950’s. Lester bought in Liverpudlian screenwriter Alun Owen who he previously worked with in television. Owen, at this point in his career, was probably best known as a co-screenwriter of The Criminal, an excellent film directed by another ex-pat American living in England, Joseph Losey. Before shooting a frame of film, Lester and Owen traveled with the group during a few of their European concerts. They observed not only the audiences reactions to the group, but how the four interacted with each other during the tour. It gave Owen the idea for his script, a day in the life of the most popular group in the world, prisoners of their own extraordinary fame.
A Hard Day’s Night is filled with youthful exuberance, irreverence and the then latest Lennon-McCarthy compositions. Lester’s use of the hand held camera in many scenes gives the film an in your face, you are there, documentary feel. The boys’ cheeky humor fills the film with an us against them mentality, much like the Marx Brothers in their best work. Early in the film, a stuffy gentlemen, riding in the same train compartment as the boys, demands they shut off the radio informing them he is a regular rider and has his rights. When George responds back that they have rights too, the man answers, “I fought the war for people like you.” “Bet you’re sorry you won,” is the boys response. Lennon then stares at the older man and whines, “Give us a kiss.” Interestingly, neither John, Paul, George or Ringo, according to Richard Lester biographer Andrew Yule, saw a Marx Brothers movie until just before they began to work on their second film, Help. The film was Duck Soup.
The Beatles world is one filled with two types of people. First, the hordes of teenagers, real life fans, mostly girls screaming, chasing, and pushing forward in an uncontrolled frenzy attempting to get close to their idols. Second, are the suits, the establishment, which is just about everyone else in the world, but here represented by their manager and TV director. The pandemonium is constant and Lester with his hand held camera captures the feel of it all. There were a few times it got a little too real during the filming of some scenes as the group had to dodge past screaming mobs who would get a little too close for comfort. Lester meanwhile kept calm and kept the camera rolling capturing it all.
Lester’s editing was innovative, influencing future filmmakers for generations to come. The running, jumping, falling sequence of Can’t Buy Me Love and the early train sequence of the group playing cards in a baggage car with a smooth quick shift to performing I Should of Known Better, were revolutionary and its technique and style gave birth to the modern music videos we take for granted today (There were short promotional films made by record companies prior to A Hard Day’s Night, but they were mostly just of the singer or the group standing there and performing.) Many years later MTV would pay tribute to Lester for his influence on the modern day music video. Today, these ground-breaking techniques may seem a bit of a cliché after thousands of music videos and feature films copying the style.
The film’s pleasure levels range from anarchistic to orgasmic. There’s Lennon off handedly sniffing a coca cola bottle (one wonders how did that get past the censors), to the final concert scenes with a young audience of mostly teen girls in a screaming frenzy of unbelievable high levels of pure ecstasy. (1) On stage, The Beatles are singing, having fun, soaking it all in, smiling at each other, knowing they are at the center of the universe. And let’s not forget Paul’s Grandfather…”he’s a clean old man.”
It was all so innocent, though, now we know the group was more than just holding hands with some of those girls. Later on came the drugs, the psychedelic clothing, the Maharishi, Yoko, Linda, the breakup, the murder of John and George’s death, all would sour that sweet innocence with a much darker future. But as John Lennon said in the early 1970’s while advertising the release of his Rock and Roll album, “you shoulda’ been there…”
Footnotes:
(1) Among the screaming fans were a young teen, and the future drummer of Genesis, Phil Collins, as well as teenage girl named Patti Boyd who would become George Harrison’s first wife. She appears in the I Should Have Known Better sequence.
This is my contribution to the Criterion Blogathon. Check out other fantastic entries by clicking on the link below.
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COR! This was utterly delicious! I’ve never made chips before and neither had Mr R so we approached this test cook with great trepidation. As we grew up in the 1970s we had fear installed in us about CHIP PAN FIRES by many public information films, consequently Mr R spent a lot of time blocking me from getting too close to the boiling oil.
I bought this chip sieve thing, especially for this recipe but my goodness there is no way it is only going to get used just once. I just loved our homemade chips! If you too are new to this kind of business, I heartily recommend this Jamie Oliver step-by-step guide. It fits with Paul’s recipe but gives more guidance on timings and extra tips.
Behold the splendour!
This recipe is the suggestion for Dinner and a Movie this month – we are watching A Hard Day’s Night – join us!
Skip over here for all the info.
Coming soon to club members over at Dinner and a Movie
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George Harrison’s soup
Ringo’s method for fish and chips – get someone else to make them for you, basically.
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Although first nominated in 1993, the Musicares Person of the Year honoree is the only Beatle without a star on the famous boulevard.
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It may be hard to believe, but Sir Paul McCartney, one of two surviving members of The Beatles and arguably the game-changing foursome’s most successful solo graduate, is the only Beatle who doesn’t have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The 69-year-old has certainly seen his share of nominations over the years, and even participated in honoring two of his bandmates, Ringo Starr in 2010 and George Harrison in 2009, eight years after the guitarist died in 2001 — both stars, along with John Lennon’s and one for The Beatles, have a permanent home in Hollywood outside the Capitol Records building near Hollywood and Vine — but the dedication ceremony has eluded him, mostly due to scheduling difficulties.
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The unintended slight is about to change.
On Feb. 9, nearly 20 years after last being chosen for the honor in 1993, he’ll finally get that star. Details on guest attendees and speakers have yet to be revealed, but the ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. outside of Capitol Records. The next night, the Beatle will be honored as Musicares’ Person of the Year at the organization’s annual gala dinner and tribute concert.
It’s all part of a grand celebration of music leading up to the Grammy Awards, broadcast live on CBS from the L.A’s Staples Center Sunday, Feb. 12.
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Sarah Larson on seeing Paul McCartney in concert at Madison Square Garden in September, 2017, and how her affection for the former Beatle has changed over the years.
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This June, I attended a wedding in a bright, steamy garden in New Orleans, in which a procession of small children entered to “Sun King,” from “Abbey Road.” The scene immediately felt magical: When have you heard “Sun King” in a garden? The wonderful deep-cut weirdness of the later Beatles albums doesn’t tend to interact with public life. Then, in a daring solar-musical shift, “Here Comes the Sun”—and the bride entered, dazzling us, as if alighting from the heavens.
If I had a religion, the Beatles—or possibly the Velvet Underground, or trees—would be it. But until this autumn, when I saw Paul McCartney at Madison Square Garden, I had never heard any former Beatle in concert. I had never tried to. I’d always had an ineffable feeling that the Beatles exist in our memory, in our headphones, in our imagination, somewhere above and beyond us. Seeing Paul or Ringo, I’d assumed, wouldn’t conjure that aura. Another reason I’d never tried to see McCartney in particular was McCartney himself. I’ve only lived in the decades of post-Beatles McCartney—regular guy of whatever era you were in. In the seventies, my parents scoffed at Wings; in the eighties, I scoffed at “Give My Regards to Broad Street” and “The Girl Is Mine” (which, as far as I’m concerned, remains a comic high point of the twentieth century). Later, I’d get wary when he’d show up on some televised event and plunk out an earnest “Hey Jude.” All of that helped me take McCartney for granted.
The passage of time has changed my perspective entirely. So has the brutality of the world. When George Harrison died, I was devastated and a little shocked. Suddenly, I thought, What are you doing not seeing Paul in concert? We only go around once! This summer, I heard that McCartney was coming to Madison Square Garden in September, and I made plans to go. It’s 2017, and the world is a disaster. Donald Trump is President, Arctic ice is melting, publications are folding, the Noho Star is closing. And yet you can just go see Paul McCartney in concert. At this point, it seems like hubris not to.
The tempus-fugit scenario in which I had arranged to see McCartney sharpened acutely in September. The week of the concert, a dear friend of mine died. In those raw first days, all I understood was grief, consoling, being consoled, and love for my departed friend. The rest of life—eating things, finding an unwrinkled skirt to wear, writing about podcasts—was just confused bumbling. The next morning, I would be taking a train to Philadelphia for a memorial; tonight, I was seeing McCartney, with a beloved companion who understood.
McCartney came onstage waving, shaking a fist in the air. There he was. He looked youthful as ever—fluffy brown hair, wrinkled boyish face, jacket with chevrons on the sleeve. Then he and his band played the thrilling, mysterious opening chord of “A Hard Day’s Night.” I just about lost my mind. How was I hearing Paul play a faithful, electrifying “Hard Day’s Night”? Suddenly, I was a kid again, holding the record sleeve in my hands—red border, black-and-white Beatles grid, four photographs showing a set of dark eyes under a set of dark bangs. I remember trying to determine if they were all the same person—and also if they were, somehow, my dad. My parents had divorced when I was two, and I saw him every few weeks. He was jocular and fun. The Beatles all resembled him, and his haircut. The “Hard Day’s Night” cover rattled me, and then it intrigued me. Then I was hooked. I absorbed their albums as I grew. The early stuff—“Love Me Do” and “She Loves You” and “Help!”—was for swinging on the swing in my bedroom doorway; the White Album was for dancing with my mom; “Sgt. Pepper” was for building forts while she worked at our family’s seed company; “Rubber Soul” was for reading Nancy Drew. And so on.
McCartney made a gesture like, Ooh, sizzling! He is so lovably himself: a little corny, extremely amiable, a friendly pop genius. Green lights flashed, and the band went right into “Junior’s Farm.” McCartney made his impish McCartney expressions. “Good evening, New York City!” he said. “It’s so good to be back. We’re going to play some old stuff, we’re gonna play some new stuff, and I’ve got a feeling that we’re going to have some fun.” I was still processing the fact that I was in the same room as Paul McCartney, even if it was a very big room.
Suddenly, he was playing “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Onscreen behind him, there were young John Lennon and young George Harrison running through the train station in “A Hard Day’s Night,” falling down, mucking about. There was young Ringo, lying in the grass. In the movie, “Can’t Buy Me Love” signals joy, more than once, and the film’s shots enhance that joy—bursting out of doors, leaping into the air. Then McCartney played “Jet”—soaring clouds onscreen, theatrical fog onstage, euphoria all over. He followed that with the dreamy “All My Loving.” Above us, two women swayed while clutching their hearts.
Paul has always been a cozy Beatle, and a cozy post-Beatle. That day, I’d been thinking about “When I’m Sixty-Four,” about a lonelyheart wanting to live a quiet life of companionable fuse-mending and sweater-knitting, written (in a “rooty-tooty variety style,” McCartney has said) when he was around fifteen and recorded when he was a twenty-four-year-old at the height of virility and world domination. At seventy-five, he’s still a genuine rock star, even a sex symbol of sorts—after “All My Loving,” he removed his jacket and the crowd roared—but a companionable one. Later, when he read signs that people held up—“I Heart You More Than Mashed Potatoes”; “Sign My Butt?”—he sounded both wizened and like an innocent. He doesn’t give you the leathery-aged-hedonism feeling that many of his peers do. He’s not a leerer. He gives the impression that he’s just a person, and this is part of why we love him. He’s a musical genius who’s lived one of the craziest lives imaginable and known plenty of darkness, but outwardly, at least, he’s maintained a quality of straightforward good cheer.
During “Maybe I’m Amazed,” we saw the photo from the back cover of “McCartney,” from 1970—Paul, beardy and happy, with his and Linda’s baby Mary tucked inside his fur-lined jacket. This, too, I’d listened to, and stared at, as a child: red berries on a white surface, black-and-white bowl, red juice, jolly family with a sheepdog. It mesmerized me, all of it. I began to read about the Beatles: my mom’s book “Shout!,” in which I learned about everybody’s relationships; my dad’s copy of “The Book of Rock Lists,” which he had won from a radio station, and which I read with interest in a green velvet scoop chair at his apartment. In my research, I’d learned that “Martha My Dear” was about the sheepdog pictured on “McCartney”; the album, to me, looked and sounded like domestic bliss, with warmth I recognized from my own unconventional family. I recently learned that McCartney was struggling while writing “McCartney”—Beatles breaking up, John out, Paul drinking—and that Linda had supported and encouraged him to make his own music. Knowing these things makes “Maybe I’m Amazed” sound even lovelier: its vulnerability, its admiration, its gorgeous snaking piano.
“This is a night full of memories for me,” McCartney said. He talked about recording “Love Me Do” at Abbey Road, and about George Martin. (“George turns to me and says, ‘Paul, would you mind doing the ‘Love me do’ line?’ I was petrified.”) Here, the vocal-on-harmonica action really hit the spot. My friend said, “He’s going to play ‘And I Love Her.’ ” He was right. In front of us, a tween boy and his mother linked arms and danced.
A few off notes pierced the bliss. McCartney told us that he’d written “Blackbird” in solidarity with the American civil-rights movement, a fact I hadn’t heard before; as we contemplated this information, which made the song’s lyrics seem condescending (Broken wings? Sunken eyes? What?), he rose up on a glowing white cube, performing from on high. Flowers bloomed onscreen. “Is he going to float over us?” my friend asked. It’s a weird move to praise yourself in the name of civil rights and then raise yourself aloft. This, and “Lady Madonna,” paired with footage of inspiring women, wore me out.
“After my dear friend John passed away—let’s hear it for John!” McCartney said, pumping his fist. We cheered for John. He played “Here Today”—a song in the form of “a conversation we didn’t get to have,” he said.
“When we play a Beatles song, the room lights up like a galaxy,” he said, happily. “When we play a new song, it’s like a black hole. But we don’t care. We’re going to play them anyway.”
He shifted abruptly from his newest song, “FourFiveSeconds,” a collaboration with Rihanna and Kanye West, which baffles me—are we to believe that Paul McCartney is four, five seconds from wildin’?—to “Eleanor Rigby,” a song that, I’ve discovered, feels much different in middle age than it did when I was eight. I wished that a philharmonic could join in, a string section sawing away the anguish. “I Wanna Be Your Man” made me think of my twenties, when I rediscovered the “Hard Day’s Night” movie, and Ringo dancing hilariously at the night club—a scene that treats us to the rare joy of seeing the Beatles at a party, dancing to the Beatles. “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” was another astonishment, its surreality full and real, augmented by “Yellow Submarine”-style clouds floating behind Paul onscreen as he sang about Messrs. K. and H. being second to none. My whole life was unfurling in a kaleidoscope of eras and memories.
McCartney pulled out a ukulele. “George Harrison was a very good ukulele player,” he said. “Let’s hear it for Georgie!” I loved the way he was dealing with these losses: nothing gloomy, just a big “Let’s hear it” for everybody. (Let’s hear it for my friend Michael!, I thought.) He began to play “Something” solo, on ukulele. I happen to love the soppy gorgeousness of the studio version of that song, the emotions lolling around in an orchestral bath. I also love George’s uke-playing, but I didn’t want a ukulele here—I wanted the beautiful glop. The crowd was wailing, “I don’t know, I don’t know!” Then, thrillingly, Paul crossed the stage to his guitar, the rest of the band joined in, and the full beauty of the song came together. Paul played the great guitar solo and pictures of George showed onscreen, and of Ringo with a hell of a mustache. I no longer feel that Paul is too easy with Beatles nostalgia—I’m just grateful for his presence, and that some of us are alive.
“This is a song I wrote with my mate John,” he said. He played “A Day in the Life.” The drums were exact, and the harmonies were, too; the extended “I’d love to turn you on” section built and built, just the way you wanted it to. Daisies bloomed onscreen. I cried and it felt good. Hearing the madness of the George Martin wizardry, the John Lennon “Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall” part, merging into Paul’s wonderful “Woke up, got out of bed” section, delivered by Paul himself, was heaven. At the bouncing “somebody spoke and I went into a dream,” lights shone gorgeously. But then the song segued—not into its glorious, improbable finale, which sounds like an orchestra being sucked into a vacuum cleaner—but into “Give Peace a Chance.”
I adore John and Yoko, but I rarely adore “Give Peace a Chance”—and without its raggedy beginning, and without being delivered by two longhairs protesting in a bed, it loses its edge. I wanted to hear the end of “A Day in the Life”—to feel its full power, not have it frittered away in a peace-sign montage. But I couldn’t be mad at McCartney. I waited pleasantly for it to play itself out, and found myself thinking of the way I had waited for various odd moments to pass in some of the funerals I had been to in 2017. This year, there have been many funerals, and many odd moments—a confused speech, a treacly song in a memories slide show. During these, I have willed myself not to be made uncomfortable, to ride them out. We are all doing the best we can. In these moments, the point is to be there together, and to feel love. Onscreen, as if to reinforce this idea, there was footage of the crowd I was in now: baby boomers in drapey sweaters; kids holding up peace-sign fingers; a woman with elaborate “Sgt. Pepper” puppets.
Then—a thrill! And a transition that surely would have annoyed John: “Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da,” crashing into existence with McCartney’s banging piano. I’ve always loved the songs of Paul’s that John considered granny music, the music-hall stuff. I listen to “Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da” a surprising amount, sometimes while charging down the sidewalk with headphones. McCartney wanted us to sing the “La!”s at the end, but we all sang the whole goddam thing.
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Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of two of the most successful ever James Bond films, is to tackle another multimillion pound British cultural institution: the Beatles.
The director has announced that he will make four separate fiction films, one for each member of the band. The project has the blessing of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and of the families of John Lennon and George Harrison. It marks the first time they, and rights holders Apple, have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.
Mendes explained that the four films will all be released in 2027 and tell interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view. The “dating cadence” of the films, explained a press release, “will be innovative and groundbreaking”.
“I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time,” he said, “and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies.”
No writers or cast have yet been announced.
Mendes’ producer Pippa Harris explained that the director had the idea more than a year ago, “and it’s a testament to his creative brilliance and powers of persuasion that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon and Olivia Harrison responded with such warmth and enthusiasm as soon as he spoke with them”.
She told Deadline: “What is truly exciting is for Sam to have the freedom to delve into the lives of each of the Beatles, with nothing off limits and no sense of the band wanting him to tell a particular ‘authorised’ version of their rise to success.”
Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, added: “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some. Pairing his premiere film-making team, with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe. We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam’s uniquely artistic vision.”
The Beatles formed in 1960 and changed the course of musical history before breaking up in 1970. As well as their numerous albums and hit singles, they made five features to tie in with seismic albums, beginning with A Hard Day’s Night in 1964 and ending with Let It Be (1970), all of which were well received, aside from 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour.
Dozens of documentaries have been made about the band, including Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016) and Get Back, Peter Jackson’s acclaimed three-part eight-hour movie from 2021.
About 18 biopics of the band have also appeared on the big and small screen, of which the most acclaimed are 1994’s Backbeat – which focuses on sometime guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe – and 2009’s Nowhere Boy, about the adolescence of John Lennon.
Last year saw the release of Now and Then, purportedly the final track featuring all four key Beatles, which involved McCartney, Harrison and Starr accompanying and adapting an audio track laid down by John Lennon before his murder in 1980.
Mendes was born in 1965, when Help! was topping the charts in the UK and US. His most recent film, Empire of Light, was an autobiographical drama set in the early 1980s and whose soundtrack – and plot – featured a considerable amount of contemporary two-tone.
His debut film, American Beauty, won five Oscars in 2000, including best picture, director and leading actor (for Kevin Spacey). His two James Bond films, Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), remain the highest grossing in the franchise, while the former is widely regarded as the most critically acclaimed.
His single-shot war film, 1917, went into the 2020 Oscars with 10 nominations, winning three awards, but losing out on the key gongs to Parasite.
Mendes’ stage career includes high-profile revivals of classic musicals including Cabaret (1993) Oliver! (1994) Company (1995) and Gypsy (2003). In 2013, he directed the original West End staging of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical; his latest production, Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, recently opened in London.
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Paul McCartney is writing a musical version of the classic Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, who rose to international fame with the Beatles, has joined forces with Lee Hall (Billy Elliot: The Musical), who is penning the libretto and co-writing the lyrics with McCartney. Bill Kenwright will produce.
McCartney, who has already written more than 10 songs for the project, said in a statement, “Writing a musical is not something that had ever really appealed to me. But Bill and I met up with Lee Hall and had a chat, and I found myself thinking this could be interesting and fun.”
No timeline has been officially announced for a stage production, although a 2020 U.K. premiere would likely precede a Broadway staging.
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The 1946 film starred James Stewart as George Bailey with Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H.B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Todd Karns, Samuel S. Hinds, Mary Treen, and Virginia Patton. The movie earned five Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture.
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John, Paul, George and Ringo will each be the subject of a different feature film.
Director Sam Mendes plans to make four separate movies, one from each Beatles member’s point of view. They will intersect to “tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history,” according to a press release. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the families of the late John Lennon and George Harrison, have granted full life story and music rights for the scripted films.
“I’m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” Mendes said in a statement.
Sony Pictures Entertainment will finance and distribute all four films theatrically in 2027. Details about release plans will be shared closer to the release, but the studio promises the strategy will be “innovative and groundbreaking.”
It would certainly be a risky endeavor to premiere all four films in the same year. However, musical biopics have been surging in popularity at the box office. Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” and Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” were bigger than expected, while Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour,” a cinematic rendering of her record-breaking concert, outperformed several Hollywood franchises in terms of global ticket sales. Several others are in the works; Antoine Fuqua is turning Michael Jackson’s life story into a feature film, Amy Winehouse is getting the biopic treatment with “Back to Black” and Ridley Scott is in talks to direct a movie about the rise of the Bee Gees.
In addition to directing, Mendes will produce alongside his Neal Street Productions partner Pippa Harris and Neal Street’s Julie Pastor. Jeff Jones will executive produce for Apple Corps Limited.
“We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” Harris said in a statement. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege.”
This is the first time the Beatles have granted their full support for a scripted film. The band has been the subject of several documentaries including the 1970s film “Let It Be,” which chronicled the group’s breakup, as well as Peter Jackson’s “Get Back,” which captured the making of making of the Beatles album “Let It Be.” Their songs also inspired films like the 2007 jukebox musical “Across the Universe” and 1978’s “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
“I know I speak for our CEO Tony Vinciquerra, who was instrumental in making this happen, and every Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group colleague around the world when I say: ‘yeah, yeah, yeah!’” said Tom Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony’s Motion Picture Group. “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some. Pairing his premiere filmmaking team, with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe.”
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TL:DR;
Paul McCartney said Ringo Starr inspired the title of The Beatles’ movie A Hard Day’s Night.
The title of the film was chosen for a specific reason.
The film’s title song became a huge hit.
Ringo Starr said something after a concert that blew Paul McCartney and John Lennon away. Subsequently, his words inspired The Beatles’ movie A Hard Day’s Night and its title song. The song became a chart phenomenon.
What Ringo Starr once said after a concert
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed Ringo. “Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical, very Lewis Carroll, lovely,” Paul said. “They were sort of magic even though he was just getting it wrong.”
Ringo made a fateful remark after a concert. “And he said after a concert, ‘Phew, it’s been a hard day’s night,'” Paul recalled. “John and I went, ‘What? What did you just say?’ He said, ‘I’m bloody knackered, man, it’s beena hard day’s night.'”
How Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and The Beatles’ director reacted to the title of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
Paul and John had a strong reaction to the phrase. “Hard day’s night! F****** brilliant! How does he think of ’em? Woehayy!” they said. “So that came up in this brainstorming session, something Ringo said, ‘It was a hard day’s night.'” For context, the brainstorming session was about the title of The Beatles’ first movie.
Richard Lester directed A Hard Day’s Night. According to the 1994 book The Man Who Framed the Beatles: A Biography of Richard Lester, Lester discussed what he thought about the title of The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night. “You’re never going to improve on it,” he said. “It’s very provocative. It means nothing and has nothing to do with the film. But it sounds like a Beatles title.”
How ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ performed in the United States and the United Kingdom
“A Hard Day’s Night” became a chart juggernaut in the United States. For two weeks, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100. It lasted 13 weeks on the chart in total. “A Hard Day’s Night” appeared on the soundtrack album of the same name. The album was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks, staying on the chart for 56 weeks altogether.
According to The Official Charts Company, “A Hard Day’s Night” became a huge hit in the United Kingdom as well. For three weeks, the song was No. 1 in the U.K. It lasted on the chart for 13 total weeks. For 21 weeks, the album A Hard Day’s Night was No. 1. It remained on the chart for 39 weeks.
“A Hard Day’s Night” became a cultural touchstone. Bleachers, Sheryl Crowe, and Peter Sellers each covered it. The Residents incorporated its riff into their melody “Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life.” “A Hard Day’s Night” became one of The Beatles’ most famous songs and it wouldn’t be the same without Ringo.
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The Founder’s Vision. Macalester College was founded in 1874 with a commitment to making it one of the finest colleges in the country. Its founder, the Rev. Edward Duffield Neill, served as a chaplain in the Civil War and held positions in three U.S. presidential administrations. Journeying to the Minnesota Territory in 1849 to do missionary
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The Founder’s Vision. Macalester College was founded in 1874 with a commitment to making it one of the finest colleges in the country. Its founder, the Rev. Edward Duffield Neill, served as a chaplain in the Civil War and held positions in three U.S. presidential administrations. Journeying to the Minnesota Territory in 1849 to do missionary work, he founded two churches and served as the state’s first superintendent of public education and first chancellor of the University of Minnesota.
Having shaped the education of the Northwest’s citizens, Neill turned to the education of its leaders. He believed that only a private college could offer both the academic quality and the values needed to prepare for leadership. He planned a college that would be equal in academic strength to the best colleges in the East. It would be Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian, making it inclusive by the standards of his day.
Charles Macalester, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist, made the establishing gift by donating the Winslow House, a noted summer hotel in Minneapolis. With additional funding from the Presbyterian Church and from the new college’s trustees, Macalester opened in 1885 with five professors, six freshmen, and 52 preparatory students.
Defining Excellence. In 1887, a young classical scholar named James Wallace joined the faculty—and forever changed the future—of Macalester College. Over the next 50 years, as faculty member, president, fund-raiser, donor, and role model, James Wallace helped the College define its special values and its standards of excellence.
Wallace quickly established himself as a fine and demanding teacher, and he earned a national reputation for scholarship when he published two Greek textbooks that were widely used across the country. When he took on added duties as dean of the college and then as president, he dedicated himself to creating the strongest possible academic experience for Macalester students. He recruited excellent faculty members and carefully added new areas of study to the curriculum.
In spite of academic success, James Wallace’s early years at Macalester were financially difficult. Gradually, his unceasing efforts built up a group of donors whose support, together with tuition from a growing student body, put the college on steady footing. By the time he rejoined the faculty in 1906, Wallace had enabled the college to pay off its debt, maintain a balanced budget, and begin to establish an endowment to offer some protection against hard times.
Until shortly before his death in 1939, James Wallace taught religion, Greek, and political science. He inspired students to set high aspirations, strive for the best, and serve humanity on a global basis. His interest in world affairs intensified throughout his lifetime, and just before his 90th birthday he published a third book, this one on international peace and justice.
Distinguishing Values. In the 1940s and 1950s President Charles J. Turck gave new emphasis to the college’s internationalism by recruiting foreign students, creating overseas study opportunities, and hiring faculty from diverse backgrounds. As a symbol of commitment to international harmony, he raised the United Nations flag on campus in 1950, and it has flown every day since then, just below the United States flag. Under his leadership, the college also broadened its base of community service and intensified its continuing interest in civic and national affairs. President Turck wrote a regular column in the student newspaper, often discussing social justice at home and abroad.
Macalester engaged in a remarkable period of advancement throughout the 1960s. Under the leadership of President Harvey M. Rice, the college strengthened the academic credentials of its faculty, enhanced the academic program, and increased its visibility, attracting students from across the nation and around the world. A major building campaign resulted in a fine arts center and new science facilities, which were among the best in the United States. All of this was made possible by the generous gifts of many friends, led by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, founders of the Reader’s Digest and major benefactors of Macalester. Mr. Wallace, who died in 1981, was the son of President James Wallace and a member of the college’s class of 1911.
Along the way, Macalester committed itself to a liberal arts curriculum and asserted five traditional and distinguishing values: involvement of students with faculty in the pursuit of learning; creation of a diverse campus community; incorporation of an international perspective in the curriculum and campus life; involvement of the college in the life of the metropolitan area; and espousal of service as a way of life.
The stories of four alumni provide evidence of the historic nature of those values:
Catharine Deaver Lealtad became Macalester’s first African American graduate in 1915; as a physician she spent a long career treating children affected by poverty, war, and famine around the world.
Esther Torii Suzuki was admitted to Macalester in 1942, freeing her from the internment camp where her Japanese American family was placed during World War II; she became a social worker and human rights activist.
Walter Mondale, who grew up in southern Minnesota, was part of the Class of 1950; he went on to become vice president of the United States, a U.S. senator, and U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Kofi Annan came to Macalester from Ghana; after his 1961 graduation he began a career with the United Nations culminating in his election to the post of U.N. Secretary General and his receipt of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.
Expanding Educational Opportunities. In 1968, in response to student activism, Macalester embarked on an ambitious plan to expand the educational opportunities of disadvantaged students previously underrepresented at Macalester. With the support of President Arthur Flemming, the Expanded Educational Opportunities (EEO) program was formally implemented in the 1969-1970 academic year. That year, the program brought 75 students on full scholarship to Macalester, raising the number of students of color in the incoming class to 15 percent. Prior to EEO, students of color represented 2 percent or less of the student body. While the incoming class was mostly black, the EEO also focused on recruiting Native American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American students (these were the terms used by EEO at that time), and white students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. When significant cuts to the program were announced in 1974, student protesters occupied the business office for 12 days, winning a short-lived compromise. Over its 15-year history, the EEO program changed student demographics, and increased awareness about issues of race, forever changing Macalester’s campus and culture. Those given EEO scholarships have gone on to prominent positions in their respective communities in the areas of business, education, politics, medicine and community activism.
Unprecedented Strength. The 1990s were another period of significant advancement for Macalester. In 1991, the college’s endowment became significantly stronger than it had been, enabling Macalester to pursue its high ideals with renewed vision and confidence. The college increased the number of faculty positions, adding new depth and more broadly diverse perspectives to the educational program. The improved student-faculty ratio also made possible more flexible and personalized teaching approaches, including significant enhancement of an already strong emphasis on faculty-student collaborative research and writing. The college also increased international study opportunities for students and faculty and strengthened co-curricular programs from athletics to residential life to community service.
Through a comprehensive campus improvement program, virtually every academic and residential building on campus was renovated, as were the athletic facilities. Extensive renovation of the science facilities, which merged two buildings into the Olin-Rice Science Center, was completed in 1997. George Draper Dayton residence hall opened in 1998, the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center in 2001, and the renovated Kagin Commons student services building in 2002. A comprehensive fund-raising campaign completed in 2000 raised $55.3 million to help support some of those building projects as well as scholarship funds, student-faculty research stipends, academic programs, and annual operations.
The college entered the 21st century with a planning process that reaffirmed its core values and key strengths. In Fall 2005, President Brian C. Rosenberg issued a vision statement that calls upon Macalester to respond to the world’s complex challenges with renewed academic strength and with a commitment to global citizenship on the part of the college and its graduates. Global citizenship begins with responsible and reflective local engagement that transcends parochial concerns and regards all human beings as fellow citizens. Macalester’s Institute for Global Citizenship, created in 2005, serves as a catalyst for strengthening programs by which students connect academic study with off-campus applications through internships and service-learning opportunities both in the United States and abroad, and programs by which students explore ways to engage some of the world’s most challenging issues through their chosen professions.
In fall 2008 Macalester publicly launched a $150 million campaign to raise funds for scholarships, faculty support, program enhancement, operating support, and new facilities. By the campaign’s conclusion in December 2011, the college had surpassed that goal by raising over $156 million. Many of the campaign’s milestones are visible on campus: the Leonard Center athletic and wellness complex, Markim Hall (home to the Institute for Global Citizenship), and the first stage of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center’s renovation and expansion, which created a central commons and state-of-the-art spaces for music at Macalester. In 2012, the Music building opened, followed in 2014 by the Joan Adams Mondale Hall of Studio Art.
In the fall of 2018, the college launched a $100 million campaign focused on access and excellence, which included the completion of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center renovation with the opening of the new Theater and Dance building in February of 2019.
With the help of financial support from its alumni and friends, Macalester continues the traditions begun by its founders and carried forward throughout its history: providing an education of uncompromising academic quality to talented students from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds and preparing them to make a significant and positive difference in the world.
Past Presidents of Macalester College
The Rev. Edward Duffield Neill,* D.D., 1874-1884
The Rev. Thomas A. McCurdy,* D.D., 1884-1890
The Rev. David James Burrell,* D.D., 1890-1891
The Rev. Adam Weir Ringland,* D.D., 1892-1894
James Wallace,* Ph.D., LL.D., D.D., 1894-1906
Thomas Morey Hodgman,* LL.D., 1907-1917
The Rev. Elmer Allen Bess,* D.D., 1918-1923
John Carey Acheson,* A.M., LL.D., 1924-1937
Charles Joseph Turck,* A.M., LL.B., LL.D., 1939-1958
Harvey Mitchell Rice,* A.M., Ph.D., L.H.D., LL.D., 1958-1968
Arthur S. Flemming,* A.B., M.A., J.D., 1968-1971
James A. Robinson,* A.A., A.B., M.A., Ph.D., 1971-1975
John B. Davis, Jr.,* B.A., M.Ed., E.Ed., LL.D., 1975-1984
Robert M. Gavin, Jr., B.A., Ph.D., 1984-1996
Michael S. McPherson, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 1996-2003
Brian C. Rosenberg, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 2003-2020
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Kofi Atta Annan (pron.: / ˈ k oʊ f i ˈ æ n ə n /; born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
From 23 February until 31 August 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution, stating that "when the Syrian people desperately need action, there continues to be finger-pointing and name-calling in the Security Council."
Early years and education
Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi in the Gold Coast on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Ataa, who died in 1991, shares the middle name Atta, which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's aristocratic families; both their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs.
In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or in relation to how many children precede them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday.
Pronunciation: Annan has said his surname rhymes with "cannon" in English.
From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school taught him "that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere". In 1957, the year Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast gained independence from Britain and began using the name "Ghana".
In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961. Annan then did a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62. After some years of work experience, he studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree.
Annan is fluent in English, French, Akan, some Kru languages and other African languages.
Early career
In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations (UN). From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana. In the late 1980s, Annan returned to work for the UN, where he was appointed as an Assistant Secretary-General in three consecutive positions: Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator (1987–1990); Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller (1990–1992); and Peacekeeping Operations (March 1993 – December 1996).
The Rwandan Genocide took place in 1994 while Annan directed UN Peacekeeping Operations. In 2003 Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, claimed that Annan was overly passive in his response to the imminent genocide. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003), General Dallaire asserted that Annan held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict, and from providing more logistical and material support. Dallaire claimed that Annan failed to provide responses to his repeated faxes asking for access to a weapons depository; such weapons could have helped Dallaire defend the endangered Tutsis. In 2004, ten years after the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan said, "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support."
Annan served as Under-Secretary-General from March 1994 to October 1995. He was appointed a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia, serving for five months before returning to his duties as Under-Secretary-General in April 1996.
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Appointment
On 13 December 1996, the United Nations Security Council recommended Annan to replace the previous Secretary-General, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, whose second term faced the veto of the United States. Confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly, he started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997.
Activities
In April 2001, Annan issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Stating it was a "personal priority", Annan proposed a Global AIDS and Health Fund to stimulate the increased international spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis. On 10 December 2001, Annan and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world".
In the years after 1998 when UNSCOM was kicked out by the government of Saddam Hussein and during the Iraq disarmament crisis, in which the United States blamed UNSCOM and former IAEA director Hans Blix for failing to properly disarm Iraq, Scott Ritter the former UNSCOM chief weapons inspector, blamed Annan for being slow and ineffective in enforcing Security Council resolutions on Iraq and was overtly submissive to the demands of the Clinton administration for regime removal and inspection of sites, often Presidential palaces, that were not mandated in any resolution and were of questionable intelligence value, which severely hampered UNSCOM's ability to cooperate with the Iraqi government and contributed to their expulsion from the country. Ritter also claimed that Annan regularly interfered with the work of the inspectors and diluted the chain of command by trying to micromanage all of the activities of UNSCOM, which caused intelligence processing (and the resulting inspections) to be backed up and caused confusion with the Iraqis as to who was in charge and as a result, they generally refused to take orders from Ritter or Rolf Ekéus without explicit approval from Annan, which could have taken days, if not weeks. He later believed that Annan was oblivious to the fact the Iraqis took advantage of this in order to delay inspections. He claimed that on one occasion, Annan refused to implement a no-notice inspection of the SSO headquarters and instead tried to negotiate access, but the negotiation ended up taking nearly six weeks, giving the Iraqis more than enough time to clean out the site.
During the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without the support of the United Nations. In a September 2004 interview on the BBC, when questioned about the legal authority for the invasion, Annan said he believed it was not in conformity with the UN charter and was illegal.
Annan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disagreed sharply on Iran's nuclear program, on an Iranian exhibition of cartoons mocking the Holocaust, and on the then upcoming International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, an Iranian Holocaust denial conference in 2006. During a visit to Iran instigated by continued Iranian uranium enrichment, Annan said "I think the tragedy of the Holocaust is an undeniable historical fact and we should really accept that fact and teach people what happened in World War II and ensure it is never repeated."
Annan supported sending a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, Sudan. He worked with the government of Sudan to accept a transfer of power from the African Union peacekeeping mission to a UN one. Annan also worked with several Arab and Muslim countries on women's rights and other topics.
Beginning in 1998, Annan convened an annual UN "Security Council Retreat" with the 15 States' representatives of the Council. It was held at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Conference Centre at the Rockefeller family estate at Pocantico, and was sponsored by both the RBF and the UN.
Lubbers sexual-harassment investigation
In June 2004, Annan was given a copy of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) report on the complaint brought by four women workers against Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees for sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and retaliation. The report also reviewed a long-serving staff member's allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Werner Blatter, Director of UNHCR Personnel. The investigation found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment; no mention was made publicly of the other charge against a senior official, or two subsequent complaints filed later that year. In the course of the official investigation, Lubbers wrote a letter which some considered was a threat to the female worker who had brought the charges. On 15 July 2004, Annan cleared Lubbers of the accusations, saying they were not substantial enough legally. His decision held until November 2004. When the OIOS issued its annual report to the UN General Assembly, it stated that it had found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment. These events were widely reported and weakened Annan's influence.
On 17 November 2004, Annan accepted an OIOS report clearing Dileep Nair, UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, of political corruption and sexual harassment charges. Some UN staff in New York disagreed with this conclusion, leading to extended debate on 19 November.
The internal UNn-OIOS report on Lubbers was leaked, and sections accompanied by an article by Kate Holt were published in a British newspaper. In February 2005, he resigned as head of the UN refugee agency. Lubbers said he wanted to relieve political pressure on Annan.
Oil-for-Food scandal
In December 2004, reports surfaced that the Secretary-General's son Kojo Annan received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations.
Annan appointed the Independent Inquiry Committee, which was led by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, then the director of the United Nations Association of the US. In his first interview with the Inquiry Committee, Annan denied having had a meeting with Cotecna. Later in the inquiry, he recalled that he had met with Cotecna's chief executive Elie-Georges Massey twice. In a final report issued on 27 October, the committee found insufficient evidence to indict Kofi Annan on any illegal actions, but did find fault with Benan Sevan, a Cypriot national who had worked for the UN for about 40 years. Appointed by Annan to the Oil-For-Food role, Sevan repeatedly asked Iraqis for allocations of oil to the African Middle East Petroleum Company. Sevan's behaviour was "ethically improper", Volcker said to reporters. Sevan repeatedly denied the charges and argued that he was being made a "scapegoat". The Volcker report was highly critical of the UN management structure and the Security Council oversight. It strongly recommended a new position be established of Chief Operating Officer (COO), to handle the fiscal and administrative responsibilities than under the Secretary General's office. The report listed the companies, both Western and Middle Eastern, that benefited illegally from the program.
Relations between the United States and the United Nations
Kofi Annan supported his deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized the United States in a speech on 6 June 2006: "[T]he prevailing practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable. You will lose the UN one way or another. [...] [That] the US is constructively engaged with the UN [...] is not well known or understood, in part because much of the public discourse that reaches the US heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News." Malloch later said his talk was a "sincere and constructive critique of U.S. policy toward the U.N. by a friend and admirer."
The talk was unusual because it violated unofficial policy of not having top officials publicly criticize member nations. The interim U.S. ambassador John R. Bolton, appointed by President George W. Bush, was reported to have told Annan on the phone: "I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time." Observers from other nations supported Malloch's view that conservative politicians in the US prevented many citizens from understanding the benefits of US involvement in the UN.
UN Resolution 61/225: World Diabetes Day
Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations General Assembly's passage of UN Resolution 61/225, to establish World Diabetes Day. The Resolution was the second UN General Assembly Resolution on a health-related issue (the other being HIV/AIDS). Resolution 61/225 is the only Health-related UN Resolution to pass by consensus. Sponsored by the Republic of South Africa and Bangladesh, the Resolution was passed on 20 December 2006.
Farewell addresses
On 19 September 2006, Annan gave a farewell address to world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, in anticipation of his retirement on 31 December. In the speech he outlined three major problems of "an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights and the rule of law", which he believes "have not resolved, but sharpened" during his time as Secretary-General. He also pointed to violence in Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict as two major issues warranting attention.
On 11 December 2006, in his final speech as Secretary-General, delivered at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, Annan recalled Truman's leadership in the founding of the United Nations. He called for the United States to return to President Truman's multilateralist foreign policies, and to follow Truman's credo that "the responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world". He also said that the United States must maintain its commitment to human rights, "including in the struggle against terrorism."
Recommendations for UN reform
Soon after taking office in 1997, Annan released two reports on management reform. On 17 March 1997, the report ‘Management and Organisational Measures’ (A/51/829) introduced new management mechanisms through the establishment of a cabinet-style body to assist him and be grouping the UN’s activities in accordance with four core missions. A comprehensive reform agenda was issued on 14 July 1997 entitled ‘Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform’ (A/51/950). Key proposals included the introduction of strategic management to strengthen unity of purpose, the establishment of the position of Deputy Secretary-General, a 10-percent reduction in posts, a reduction in administrative costs, the consolidation of the UN at the country level, and reaching out to civil society and the private sector as partners. Annan also proposed to hold a Millennium Summit in 2000. After years of research, Annan presented a progress report, In Larger Freedom, to the UN General Assembly, on 21 March 2005. Annan recommended Security Council expansion and a host of other UN reforms.
On 31 January 2006, Kofi Annan outlined his vision for a comprehensive and extensive reform of the UN in a policy speech to the United Nations Association UK. The speech, delivered at Central Hall, Westminster, also marked the 60th Anniversary of the first meetings of the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council.
On 7 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his proposals for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations Secretariat. The reform report is entitled: "Investing in the United Nations, For a Stronger Organization Worldwide".
On 30 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his analysis and recommendations for updating the entire work programme of the United Nations Secretariat over the last 60 years. The report is entitled: "Mandating and Delivering: Analysis and Recommendations to Facilitate the Review of Mandates".
Regarding the UN Human Rights Council, Annan has said "declining credibility" had "cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system. Unless we re-make our human rights machinery, we may be unable to renew public confidence in the United Nations itself." However, he does believe that, despite its flaws, the council can do good.
Post-UN career
Upon his return to Ghana, Annan was immediately suggested as a candidate to become the country's next President.
He has become involved with several organizations with both global and African focuses. In 2007, Annan was named chairman of the prize committee for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, was chosen to lead the new formation of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, and was selected for the MacArthur Foundation Award for International Justice.
Annan is a member of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues. In November 2008, Annan and fellow Elders Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel attempted to travel to Zimbabwe to make a first-hand assessment of the humanitarian situation in the country. Refused entry, the Elders instead carried out their assessment from Johannesburg, where they met Zimbabwe- and South Africa-based leaders from politics, business, international organisations and civil society. In May 2011, following months of political violence in Côte d’Ivoire, Annan travelled to the country with Elders Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson to encourage national reconciliation.
In the beginning of 2008, as head of the Panel of Eminent African Personalities, Annan participated in the negotiations to end the civil unrest in Kenya. He threatened to leave the negotiations as mediator if a quick decision was not made. On 26 February 2008 he suspended talks to end Kenya's violent post-election crisis. On 28 February, Annan managed to have President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga sign a coalition government agreement and was widely lauded by many Kenyans for this landmark achievement. That was the best deal achieved then under the mediation efforts.
Annan is a member of the Club of Madrid. Annan currently serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion USD gift to support UN causes. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN.
Annan chairs the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. Every year, the Panel releases a report, the Africa Progress Report, that outlines an issue of immediate importance to the continent and suggests a set of associated policies. In 2012, the Africa Progress Report highlighted issues of Jobs, Justice, and Equity. The 2013 report will outline issues relating to oil, gas, and mining in Africa.
Kofi Annan was appointed the Chancellor of the University of Ghana in 2008.
Annan has signed up to be one of the Counsellors at One Young World a non-profit organisation which hopes to bring together 1500 young global leaders of tomorrow from every country in the world.
In May 2009 Columbia University announced that Annan will join a new program being launched by Dean John Coatsworth at the School of International and Public Affairs as one of the first group of Global Fellows. The Global Fellows program will bring students together with global practitioners to share firsthand knowledge of experiences in the life of an international or public figure. He is also a fellow of The Committee on Global Thought appointed by the University.
On 2 September 2009, Annan was unveiled as the first Li Ka Shing Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The announcement was made during the school's 5th anniversary celebrations.
On 7 October 2010, Annan was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Global Center for Pluralism, Canada’s new international research and education center dedicated to the study and practice of pluralism worldwide. The Global Centre for Pluralism is an initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan in partnership with the Government of Canada. The Center is located at 330 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to the creation of successful societies, the Centre is founded on the premise that tolerance, openness and understanding towards the cultures, social structures, values and faiths of other peoples are essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development.
A member of the Fondation Chirac's honour committee when former French president Jacques Chirac launched it in 2008, Kofi Annan participates as jury member for the Prize for Conflict Prevention awarded every year by this foundation. He also created the Kofi Annan Foundation dedicated to sustainable development and peace.
Work in Syria
On 23 February 2012, Annan was appointed as the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, in an attempt to end the civil war taking place. He developed a six-point plan for peace:
commit to work with the Envoy in an inclusive Syrian-led political process to address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people, and, to this end, commit to appoint an empowered interlocutor when invited to do so by the Envoy;
commit to stop the fighting and achieve urgently an effective United Nations supervised cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties to protect civilians and stabilise the country.
To this end, the Syrian government should immediately cease troop movements towards, and end the use of heavy weapons in, population centres, and begin pullback of military concentrations in and around population centres.
As these actions are being taken on the ground, the Syrian government should work with the Envoy to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism.
Similar commitments would be sought by the Envoy from the opposition and all relevant elements to stop the fighting and work with him to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism;
ensure timely provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting, and to this end, as immediate steps, to accept and implement a daily two hour humanitarian pause and to coordinate exact time and modalities of the daily pause through an efficient mechanism, including at local level;
intensify the pace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons, including especially vulnerable categories of persons, and persons involved in peaceful political activities, provide without delay through appropriate channels a list of all places in which such persons are being detained, immediately begin organizing access to such locations and through appropriate channels respond promptly to all written requests for information, access or release regarding such persons;
ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists and a non-discriminatory visa policy for them;
respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully as legally guaranteed.
On 2 August, he resigned as U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, citing the intransigence of both the Assad government and the rebels, as well as the stalemate on the Security Council as preventing any peaceful resolution of the situation. He also stated that the lack of international unity and ineffective diplomacy among the world leaders has made the peaceful resolution in Syria an impossible task.
Memoir
On 4 September 2012, Annan published his memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, written with Nader Mousavizadeh, ISBN 978-159420420-3. The book is described as a personal biography of so-called global statecraft.
Personal life
In 1965 Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from a well-to-do family. Several years later they had a daughter Ama and later a son Kojo. The couple separated in the late seventies. In 1984 Annan remarried to Nane Lagergren - a Swedish lawyer at the U.N. and niece of Raoul Wallenberg.
Honours and awards
Honours
2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana
2000: Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
2001: Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania
2005: Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty (Portugal)
2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria
2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II (UK)
2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Awards
2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of Lifetime Achievement
2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations
2002: winner of the " Profiles in Courage Award", given by the JFK Memorial Museum
2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service.
2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen
2006: International World Order of Culture, Science and Education, Award of the European Academy of Informatization, Belgium
2006: Inter Press Service, International Achievement Award for Annan's lasting contributions to peace, security, and development
2006: Olof Palme Prize
2007: Wooden Crossbow, special award from the Swiss World Economic Forum
2007: People in Europe Award of Verlagsgruppe Passau
2007: MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Award for International Justice
2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe
2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize
2008: Harvard University Honours Prize
2008: Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize – Münster (Westfalen)
2008: Open Society Award – CEU Business School Budapest
2011: Gothenburg Award
Honorary degrees
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Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain.[1] He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.[2]
After twelve years abroad pursuing higher education, developing his political philosophy, and organizing with other diasporic pan-Africanists, Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast to begin his political career as an advocate of national independence.[3] He formed the Convention People's Party, which achieved rapid success through its unprecedented appeal to the common voter.[4] He became Prime Minister in 1952 and retained the position when Ghana declared independence from Britain in 1957. In 1960, Ghanaians approved a new constitution and elected Nkrumah President.[5]
His administration was primarily socialist as well as nationalist. It funded national industrial and energy projects, developed a strong national education system and promoted a pan-Africanist culture.[6] Under Nkrumah, Ghana played a leading role in African international relations during the decolonization period.[7]
After multiple failed attempts on his life, coupled with increasingly difficult local economic conditions, Nkrumah's government became authoritarian in the 1960s, as he repressed political opposition and conducted elections that were not free and fair.[8][9][10][11][12] In 1964, a constitutional amendment made Ghana a one-party state, with Nkrumah as president for life of both the nation and its party.[13] He fostered a personality cult, forming ideological institutes and adopting the title of 'Osagyefo Dr.'.[14] Nkrumah was deposed in 1966 by the CIA backed National Liberation Council in a coup d'état, under whose supervision the country's economy was privatized.[15] Nkrumah lived the rest of his life in Guinea, where he was named honorary co-president.[16][7][17]
Early life and education
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Kwame Nkrumah was born on Tuesday, 21 September 1909[18][19] in Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana)[20]).[21] Nkroful was a small village in the Nzema area,[22] in the southwest of the Gold Coast, close to the frontier with the French colony of the Ivory Coast. His father did not live with the family, but worked in Half Assini where he pursued his goldsmith business until his death.[23] Kwame Nkrumah was raised by his mother and his extended family, who lived together traditionally and had more distant relatives often visiting.[24] He lived a carefree childhood, spent in the village, in the bush, and on the nearby sea.
During his years as a student in the United States, he was known as Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah, Kofi being the name given to males born on Fridays.[26] He later changed his name to Kwame Nkrumah in 1945 in the UK, preferring the name "Kwame".[27][28] According to Ebenezer Obiri Addo in his study of the future president, the name "Nkrumah", a name traditionally given to a ninth child, indicates that Kwame probably held that place in the house of his father, who had several wives.[29]
His father, Opanyin Kofi Nwiana Ngolomah, came from Nkroful situated in Nzema East currently called Ellembele, belonging to the Asona clan of the Akan Tribe.[30] Sources indicated that Ngolomah stayed at Tarkwa-Nsuaem and dealt in the goldsmith business.[31]
Ngolomah was respected for his wise counsel by those who sought his advice on traditional issues and domestic affairs. He died in 1927.[32][21]
Kwame was his mother's only child.[a] She sent him to the elementary school run by a Catholic mission at Half Assini, where he proved an adept student.
Although his mother, whose name was Elizabeth Nyanibah (1876/77–1979),[28][35] later stated his year of birth as 1912, Nkrumah wrote that he was born on 21 September 1909. His mother hailed from Nsuaem and belonged to the Agona family. She was a fishmonger and petty trader when she married his father.[36] Eight days after his birth, his father named him as Francis Nwia-Kofi after a relative[21] but later his parents named him as Francis Kwame Ngolomah.[31]
He progressed through the ten-year elementary programme in eight years. In 1925, he was a student-teacher in the school and was baptized into the Catholic faith.[37] While at the school, he was noticed by the Reverend Alec Garden Fraser, principal of the Government Training College (soon to become Achimota School) in the Gold Coast's capital, Accra. Fraser arranged for Nkrumah to train as a teacher at his school. Here, Columbia-educated deputy headmaster Kwegyir Aggrey exposed him to the ideas of Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois. Aggrey, Fraser, and others at Achimota thought that there should be close co-operation between the races in governing the Gold Coast, but Nkrumah, echoing Garvey, soon came to believe that only when the black race governed itself could there be harmony between the races.
After obtaining his teacher's certificate from the Prince of Wales' College at Achimota in 1930,[28] Nkrumah was given a teaching post at the Roman Catholic primary school in Elmina in 1931.[28] After a year there, he was made headmaster of the school at Axim. In Axim, he started to get involved in politics and founded the Nzema Literary Society. In 1933, he was appointed a teacher at the Catholic seminary at Amissano.[41][42] Although life there was strict, he liked it, and considered becoming a Jesuit. Nkrumah had heard journalist and future Nigerian president Nnamdi Azikiwe speak while a student at Achimota; the two men met and Azikiwe's influence increased Nkrumah's interest in black nationalism.[43] The young teacher decided to further his education.[42] Azikiwe had attended Lincoln University, a historically black college in Chester County, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia, and he advised Nkrumah to enroll there.[44]
Nkrumah, who had failed the entrance examination for London University, gained funds for the trip and his education from relatives. He travelled by way of Britain, where he learned, to his outrage, of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, one of the few independent African nations. He arrived in the United States, in October 1935.[42][17]
United States
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According to historian John Henrik Clarke in his article on Nkrumah's American sojourn, "the influence of the ten years that he spent in the United States had a lingering effect on the rest of his life." Nkrumah had sought entry to Lincoln University some time before he began his studies there. On Friday, 1 March 1935, he sent the school a letter noting that his application had been pending for more than a year. When he arrived in New York in October 1935, he traveled to Pennsylvania, where he enrolled despite lacking the funds for the full semester. He soon won a scholarship that provided for his tuition at Lincoln University. He remained short of funds through his time in the US. To make ends meet, he did menial jobs on roles such as a wholesaler of fish and poultries, cleaner, dishwasher and others.[49] On Sundays, he visited black Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia and in New York.
Nkrumah completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology in 1939. Lincoln then appointed him an assistant lecturer in philosophy. He began to receive invitations to be a guest preacher in Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia and New York.[51][52] In 1939, Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln's seminary and at the Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and in 1942, he was initiated into the Mu chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity at Lincoln University.[53] Nkrumah gained a Bachelor of Theology degree from Lincoln in 1942, the top student in the course. He earned from Penn the following year a Master of Arts degree in philosophy and a Master of Science in education. While at Penn, Nkrumah worked with the linguist William Everett Welmers, providing the spoken material that formed the basis of the first descriptive grammar of his native Fante dialect of the Akan language.[55] Nkrumah was also initiated into Prince Hall Freemasonry while living in the United States.[56][57]
Nkrumah spent his summers in Harlem, a center of black life, thought and culture. He found housing and employment in New York City with difficulty and involved himself in the community.[58] He spent many evenings listening to and arguing with street orators, and according to Clarke, Kwame Nkrumah in his years in America stated;[59]
These evenings were a vital part of Kwame Nkrumah's American education. He was going to a university – the university of the Harlem Streets. This was no ordinary time and these street speakers were no ordinary men ...The streets of Harlem were open forums, presided over [by] master speakers like Arthur Reed and his protege Ira Kemp. The young Carlos Cook [sic], founder of the Garvey oriented African Pioneer Movement was on the scene, also bringing a nightly message to his street followers. Occasionally Suji Abdul Hamid [sic], a champion of Harlem labour, held a night rally and demanded more jobs for blacks in their own community ...This is part of the drama on the Harlem streets as the student Kwame Nkrumah walked and watched.
Nkrumah was an activist student, organizing a group of expatriate African students in Pennsylvania and building it into the African Students Association of America and Canada, becoming its president.[59] Some members felt that the group should aspire for each colony to gain independence on its own; Nkrumah urged a Pan-African strategy.[61] Nkrumah played a major role in the Pan-African conference held in New York in 1944, which urged the United States, at the end of the Second World War, to help ensure Africa became developed and free.
His old teacher Aggrey had died in 1929 in the US, and in 1942, Nkrumah led traditional prayers for Aggrey at the graveside. This led to a break between him and Lincoln, though after he rose to prominence in the Gold Coast, he returned in 1951 to accept an honorary degree. Nevertheless, Nkrumah's doctoral thesis remained uncompleted. He had adopted the forename Francis while at the Amissano seminary; in 1945, he took the name Kwame Nkrumah.
Nkrumah read books about politics and divinity, and tutored students in philosophy.[67] In 1943 Nkrumah met Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James, Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American Grace Lee Boggs, all of whom were members of an American-based Marxist intellectual cohort.[68] Nkrumah later credited James with teaching him "how an underground movement worked". Federal Bureau of Investigation files on Nkrumah, kept from January to May 1945, identify him as a possible communist. Nkrumah was determined to go to London, wanting to continue his education there now that the Second World War had ended. James, in a 1945 letter introducing Nkrumah to Trinidad-born George Padmore in London, wrote: "This young man is coming to you. He is not very bright, but nevertheless do what you can for him because he's determined to throw Europeans out of Africa."
London
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Nkrumah returned to London in May 1945 and enrolled at the London School of Economics as a PhD candidate in Anthropology. He withdrew after one term and the next year enrolled at University College London, with the intent to write a philosophy dissertation on "Knowledge and Logical Positivism".[72] His supervisor, A. J. Ayer, declined to rate Nkrumah as a "first-class philosopher", saying, "I liked him and enjoyed talking to him but he did not seem to me to have an analytical mind. He wanted answers too quickly. I think part of the trouble may have been that he wasn't concentrating very hard on his thesis. It was a way of marking time until the opportunity came for him to return to Ghana." Finally, Nkrumah enrolled in, but did not complete, a study in law at Gray's Inn.
Nkrumah spent his time on political organizations. He and Padmore were among the principal organizers, and co-treasurers, of the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester (15–19 October 1945).[74] The Congress elaborated a strategy for supplanting colonialism with African socialism. They agreed to pursue a federal United States of Africa, with interlocking regional organizations, governing through separate states of limited sovereignty.[75] They planned to pursue a new African culture without tribalism, democratic within a socialist system, synthesizing traditional aspects with modern thinking, and for this to be achieved by non-violent means if possible.[76] Among those who attended the congress was the venerable W. E. B. Du Bois along with some who later took leading roles in leading their nations to independence, including Hastings Banda of Nyasaland (which became Malawi), Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and Obafemi Awolowo of Nigeria.[77]
The congress sought to establish ongoing African activism in Britain in conjunction with the West African National Secretariat (WANS) to work towards the decolonisation of Africa. Nkrumah became the secretary of WANS. In addition to seeking to organize Africans to gain their nations' freedom, Nkrumah sought to succour the many West African seamen who had been stranded, destitute, in London at the end of the war, and established a Coloured Workers Association to empower and succour them. The U.S. State Department and MI5 watched Nkrumah and the WANS, focusing on their links with Communism. Nkrumah and Padmore established a group called The Circle to lead the way to West African independence and unity; the group aimed to create a Union of African Socialist Republics. A document from The Circle, setting forth that goal was found on Nkrumah upon his arrest in Accra in 1948, and was used against him by the British authorities.[b]
Return to the Gold Coast
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United Gold Coast Convention
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The 1946 Gold Coast constitution gave Africans a majority on the Legislative Council for the first time. Seen as a major step towards self-government, the new arrangement prompted the colony's first true political party, founded in August 1947, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).[84] The UGCC sought self-government as quickly as possible. Since the leading members were all successful professionals, they needed to pay someone to run the party, and their choice fell on Nkrumah at the suggestion of Ako Adjei. Nkrumah hesitated but realized that the UGCC was controlled by conservative interests and noted that the new post could open huge political opportunities for him and accepted. After being questioned by British officials about his communist affiliations, Nkrumah boarded the MV Accra at Liverpool in November 1947 for the voyage home.
After brief stops in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast, he arrived in the Gold Coast where he briefly stayed and reunited with his mother in Tarkwa. He began work at the party's headquarters in Saltpond on 29 December 1947 where he worked as a general secretary.[20] Nkrumah quickly submitted plans for branches of the UGCC to be established colony-wide, and for strikes if necessary to gain political ends. This activist stance divided the party's governing committee, which was led by J. B. Danquah. Nkrumah embarked on a tour to gain donations for the UGCC and establish new branches.
Although the Gold Coast was more developed politically than Britain's other West African colonies, there was considerable discontent. Postwar inflation had caused public anger at high prices, leading to a boycott of small businesses run by Arabs which began in January 1948. Local cocoa bean farmers were upset because trees exhibiting cacao swollen-shoot virus, but still capable of yielding a crop, were being destroyed by the colonial authorities.[89] There were about 63,000 World War II veterans in the Gold Coast, many of whom had trouble obtaining employment and felt the colonial government was doing nothing to address their grievances. Nkrumah and Danquah addressed a meeting of the Ex-Service men's Union in Accra on 20 February 1948, which was made in advance of a planned march to present a petition to the governor. When the march took place on 28 February, three veterans were killed by police gunfire, prompting the 1948 Accra riots, which spread throughout the country. According to Nkrumah's biographer, David Birmingham, "West Africa's erstwhile "model colony" witnessed a riot and business premises were looted. The African Revolution had begun."
The colonial government assumed that the UGCC was responsible for the unrest, and arrested six leaders, including Nkrumah and Danquah. The Big Six were incarcerated together in Kumasi, increasing the rift between Nkrumah and the others, who blamed him for the riots and their detention. After the colonial government learned that there were plots to storm the prison, the six were separated, with Nkrumah sent to Lawra; all six were freed in April 1948. Many students and teachers had demonstrated for their release and had been suspended; Nkrumah, using his own funds, began the Ghana National College.[93] This among other activities, led UGCC committee members to accuse him of acting in the party's name without authority. Fearing he would harm them more outside the party than within, they agreed to make him honorary treasurer. Nkrumah's popularity, already large, was increased with his founding of the Accra Evening News, which was not a party organ but was owned by Nkrumah and others. He also founded the Committee on Youth Organization (CYO) as a youth wing for the UGCC. It soon broke away and adopted the motto "Self-Government Now".[94] The CYO united students, ex-servicemen, and market women. Nkrumah recounted in his autobiography that he knew that a break with the UGCC was inevitable, and wanted the masses behind him when the conflict occurred. Nkrumah's appeals for "Free-Dom" appealed to the great numbers of underemployed youths who had come from the farms and villages to the towns. "Old hymn tunes were adapted to new songs of liberation which welcomed traveling orators, and especially Nkrumah himself, to mass rallies across the Gold Coast."
According to a public speech delivered by Aaron Mike Oquaye, he claimed a meeting occurred in Saltpond, a town in the Central region, between Nkrumah and the members of UGCC where Nkrumah was said to have rejected a proposal for the promotion of fundamental human rights.[98]
Convention People's Party
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Beginning in April 1949, there was considerable pressure on Nkrumah from his supporters to leave the UGCC and form his own party.[99] On 12 June 1949, he announced the formation of the Convention People's Party (CPP), with the word "convention" chosen, according to Nkrumah, "to carry the masses with us". There were attempts to heal the breach with the UGCC; at one July meeting, it was agreed to reinstate Nkrumah as secretary and disband the CPP. But Nkrumah's supporters would not have it, and persuaded him to refuse the offer and remain at their head.
The CPP adopted the red cockerel as its symbol – a familiar icon for local ethnic groups, and a symbol of leadership, alertness, and masculinity.[66] Party symbols and colours (red, white, and green) appeared on clothing, flags, vehicles and houses.[66] CPP operatives drove red-white-and-green vans across the country, playing music and rallying public support for the party and especially for Nkrumah. These efforts were wildly successful, especially because previous political efforts in the Gold Coast had focused exclusively on the urban intelligentsia.[66]
The British convened a selected commission of middle-class Africans, including all of the Big Six except Nkrumah, to draft a new constitution that would give the Gold Coast more self-government. Nkrumah saw, even before the commission reported, that its recommendations would fall short of full dominion status, and began to organize a Positive Action campaign.[77] Nkrumah demanded a constituent assembly to write a constitution. When the governor, Charles Arden-Clarke, would not commit to this, Nkrumah called for positive action, with the unions beginning a general strike to begin on 8 January 1950. The strike quickly led to violence, and Nkrumah and other CPP leaders were arrested on 22 January, and the Evening News was banned.[103] Nkrumah was sentenced to a total of three years in prison, and he was incarcerated with common criminals in Accra's Fort James.
Nkrumah's assistant, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, ran the CPP in his absence; the imprisoned leader was able to influence events through smuggled notes written on toilet paper. The British prepared for an election for the Gold Coast under their new constitution, and Nkrumah insisted that the CPP contest all seats.[105] The situation had become calmer once Nkrumah was arrested, and the CPP and the British worked together to prepare electoral rolls. Nkrumah stood, from prison, for a directly elected Accra seat. Gbedemah worked to set up a nationwide campaign organization, using vans with loudspeakers to blare the party's message. The UGCC failed to set up a nationwide structure, and proved unable to take advantage of the fact that many of its opponents were in prison.
In the February 1951 legislative election, the first general election to be held under universal franchise in colonial Africa, the CPP was elected in a landslide. The CPP secured 34 of the 38 seats contested on a party basis, with Nkrumah elected for his Accra constituency. The UGCC won three seats, and one was taken by an independent. Arden-Clarke saw that the only alternative to Nkrumah's freedom was the end of the constitutional experiment. Nkrumah was released from prison on 12 February, receiving a rapturous reception from his followers. The following day, Arden-Clarke sent for him and asked him to form a government.
Nkrumah had stolen Arden-Clarke's secretary Erica Powell after she was dismissed and sent home for getting too close to Nkrumah. Powell returned to Ghana in January 1955 to be Nkrumah's private secretary, a position she held for ten years.[110] Powell was very close to him and during their time together time Powell largely wrote Nkrumah's (auto)biography, although this was not admitted until much later.[111]
Leader of Government Business and Prime Minister
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Nkrumah faced several challenges as he assumed office. He had never served in government, and needed to learn that art. The Gold Coast was composed of four regions, several former colonies amalgamated into one. Nkrumah sought to unite them under one nationality, and bring the country to independence.[112] Key to meeting the challenges was convincing the British that the CPP's programmes were not only practical, but inevitable, and Nkrumah and Arden-Clarke worked closely together.[99] The governor instructed the civil service to give the fledgling government full support, and the three British members of the cabinet took care not to vote against the elected majority.
Prior to the CPP taking office, British officials had prepared a ten-year plan for development. With demands for infrastructure improvements coming in from all over the colony, Nkrumah approved it in general, but halved the time to five years.[114] The colony was in good financial shape, with reserves from years of cocoa profit held in London, and Nkrumah was able to spend freely. Modern trunk roads were built along the coast and within the interior. The rail system was modernized and expanded. Modern water and sewer systems were installed in most towns, where housing schemes were begun.[115] Construction began on a new harbour at Tema, near Accra, and the existing port, at Takoradi, was expanded. An urgent programme to build and expand schools, from primary to teacher and trade training, was begun.[citation needed] From 1951 to 1956, the number of pupils being educated at the colony's schools rose from 200,000 to 500,000. Nevertheless, the number of graduates being produced was insufficient to the burgeoning civil service's needs, and in 1953, Nkrumah announced that though Africans would be given preference, the country would be relying on expatriate European civil servants for several years.
Nkrumah's title was Leader of Government Business in a cabinet chaired by Arden-Clarke. Quick progress was made, and in 1952, the governor withdrew from the cabinet, leaving Nkrumah as his prime minister, with the portfolios that had been reserved for expatriates going to Africans.[118] There were accusations of corruption, and of nepotism, as officials, following African custom, attempted to benefit their extended families and their tribes. The recommendations following the 1948 riots had included elected local government rather than the existing system dominated by the chiefs. This was uncontroversial until it became clear that it would be implemented by the CPP. That party's majority in the Legislative Assembly passed legislation in late 1951 that shifted power from the chiefs to the chairs of the councils, though there was some local rioting as rates were imposed.
Nkrumah's re-titling as prime minister had not given him additional power, and he sought constitutional reform that would lead to independence. In 1952, he consulted with the visiting Colonial Secretary, Oliver Lyttelton, who indicated that Britain would look favorably on further advancement, so long as the chiefs and other stakeholders had the opportunity to express their views.[41] Initially skeptical of Nkrumah's socialist policies, Britain's MI5 had compiled large amounts of intelligence on Nkrumah through several sources, including tapping phones and mail interception under the code name of SWIFT.[121] Beginning in October 1952, Nkrumah sought opinions from councils and from political parties on reform, and consulted widely across the country, including with opposition groups. The result the following year was a White Paper on a new constitution, seen as a final step before independence.[122] Published in June 1953, the constitutional proposals were accepted both by the assembly and by the British, and came into force in April of the following year. The new document provided for an assembly of 104 members, all directly elected, with an all-African cabinet responsible for the internal governing of the colony. In the election on 15 June 1954, the CPP won 71, with the regional Northern People's Party forming the official opposition.
A number of opposition groups formed the National Liberation Movement. Their demands were for a federal, rather than a unitary government for an independent Gold Coast, and for an upper house of parliament where chiefs and other traditional leaders could act as a counter to the CPP majority in the assembly.[124] They drew considerable support in the Northern Territory and among the chiefs in Ashanti, who petitioned the British queen, Elizabeth II, asking for a Royal Commission into what form of government the Gold Coast should have.[125] This was refused by her government, who in 1955 stated that such a commission should only be used if the people of the Gold Coast proved incapable of deciding their own affairs. Amid political violence, the two sides attempted to reconcile their differences, but the NLM refused to participate in any committee with a CPP majority. The traditional leaders were also incensed by a new bill that had just been enacted, which allowed minor chiefs to appeal to the government in Accra, bypassing traditional chiefly authority.[126] The British were unwilling to leave unresolved the fundamental question as to how an independent Gold Coast should be governed, and in June 1956, the Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that there would be another general election in the Gold Coast, and if a "reasonable majority" took the CPP's position, Britain would set a date for independence. The results of the July 1956 election were almost identical to those from four years before, and on 3 August the assembly voted for independence under the name Nkrumah had proposed in April, Ghana. In September, the Colonial Office announced independence day would be 6 March 1957.
The opposition was not satisfied with the plan for independence, and demanded that power be devolved to the regions. Discussions took place through late 1956 and into 1957. Although Nkrumah did not compromise on his insistence on a unitary state, the nation was divided into five regions, with power devolved from Accra, and the chiefs having a role in their governments.[130] On 21 February 1957, the British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, announced that Ghana would be a full member of the Commonwealth of Nations with effect from 6 March.
Ghanaian independence
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Ghana became independent on 6 March 1957 as the Dominion of Ghana. As the first of Britain's African colonies to gain majority-rule independence, the celebrations in Accra were the focus of world attention; over 100 reporters and photographers covered the events.[132] United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent congratulations and his vice president, Richard Nixon, to represent the U.S. at the event.[118] The Soviet delegation urged Nkrumah to visit Moscow as soon as possible. Political scientist Ralph Bunche, an African American, was there for the United Nations, while the Duchess of Kent represented Queen Elizabeth II. Offers of assistance poured in from across the world. Even without them, the country seemed prosperous, with cocoa prices high and the potential of new resource development.
As the fifth of March turned to the sixth, Nkrumah stood before tens of thousands of supporters and proclaimed, "Ghana will be free forever." He spoke at the first session of the Ghana Parliament that Independence Day, telling his new country's citizens that "we have a duty to prove to the world that Africans can conduct their own affairs with efficiency and tolerance and through the exercise of democracy. We must set an example to all Africa."
Nkrumah was hailed as the Osagyefo – which means "redeemer" in the Akan language.[136] This independence ceremony included the Duchess of Kent and Governor General Charles Arden-Clarke. With more than 600 reporters in attendance, Ghanaian independence became one of the most internationally reported news events in modern African history.[137]
The flag of Ghana designed by Theodosia Okoh, inverting Ethiopia's green-yellow-red Lion of Judah flag and replacing the lion with a black star. Red symbolizes bloodshed; green stands for beauty, agriculture, and abundance; yellow represents mineral wealth; and the Black Star represents African freedom.[138] The country's new coat of arms, designed by Amon Kotei, includes eagles, a lion, a St. George's Cross, and a Black Star, with copious gold and gold trim.[139] Philip Gbeho was commissioned to compose the new national anthem, "God Bless Our Homeland Ghana".[140]
As a monument to the new nation, Nkrumah opened Black Star Square near Osu Castle in the coastal district of Osu, Accra.[6] This square would be used for national symbolism and mass patriotic rallies.[141]
Under Nkrumah's leadership, Ghana adopted some social democratic policies and practices. Nkrumah created a welfare system, started various community programs, and established schools.[142]
Ghana's leader (1957–1966)
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Political developments and presidential election
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Nkrumah had only a short honeymoon before there was unrest among his country's people. The government deployed troops to Togo-land to quell unrest following a disputed plebiscite on membership in the new country.[143] A serious bus strike in Accra stemmed from resentments among the Ga people, who believed members of other tribes were getting preferential treatment in government promotion, and this led to riots there in August.[144] Nkrumah's response was to repress local movements by the Avoidance of Discrimination Act (6 December 1957), which banned regional or tribal-based political parties. Another strike at tribalism fell in Ashanti, where Nkrumah and the CPP got most local chiefs who were not party supporters destooled.[145] These repressive actions concerned the opposition parties, who came together to form the United Party under Kofi Abrefa Busia.
In 1958, an opposition MP was arrested on charges of trying to obtain arms abroad for a planned infiltration of the Ghana Army (GA).[147] Nkrumah was convinced there had been an assassination plot against him, and his response was to have the parliament pass the Preventive Detention Act, allowing for incarceration for up to five years without charge or trial, with only Nkrumah empowered to release prisoners early.[148] According to Nkrumah's biographer, David Birmingham, "no single measure did more to bring down Nkrumah's reputation than his adoption of internment without trial for the preservation of security." Nkrumah intended to bypass the British-trained judiciary, which he saw as opposing his plans when they subjected them to constitutional scrutiny.
Another source of irritation was the regional assemblies, which had been organized on an interim basis pending further constitutional discussions. The opposition, which was strong in Ashanti and the north, proposed significant powers for the assemblies; the CPP wanted them to be more or less advisory.[151] In 1959, Nkrumah used his majority in the parliament to push through the Constitutional Amendment Act, which abolished the assemblies and allowed the parliament to amend the constitution with a simple majority.
Queen Elizabeth II remained sovereign over Ghana from 1957 to 1960. William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel was the Governor-General, and Nkrumah remained Prime Minister. On 6 March 1960, Nkrumah announced plans for a new constitution that would make Ghana a republic, headed by a president with broad executive and legislative powers.[153] The draft included a provision to surrender Ghanaian sovereignty to a Union of African States. On 19, 23, and 27 April 1960 a presidential election and plebiscite on the constitution were held. The constitution was ratified and Nkrumah was elected president over J. B. Danquah, the UP candidate, 1,016,076 to 124,623. Ghana remained a part of the British-led Commonwealth of Nations.[66]
Opposition to tribalism
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Nkrumah also sought to eliminate "tribalism", a source of loyalties held more deeply than those to the nation-state. Thus, as he wrote in Africa Must Unite: "We were engaged in a kind of war, a war against poverty and disease, against ignorance, against tribalism and disunity. We needed to secure the conditions which could allow us to pursue our policy of reconstruction and development."[154] To this end, in 1958, his government passed "An Act to prohibit organizations using or engaging in racial or religious propaganda to the detriment of any other racial or religious community, or securing the election of persons on account of their racial or religious affiliations, or for other purposes in connection therewith."[155] Nkrumah attempted to saturate the country in national flags, and declared a widely disobeyed ban on tribal flags.[138]
Kofi Abrefa Busia of the United Party (Ghana) gained prominence as an opposition leader in the debate over this Act, taking a more classically liberal position and criticizing the ban on tribal politics as repressive. Soon after, he left the country.[156] Nkrumah was also a very flamboyant leader. The New York Times in 1972 wrote: "During his high‐flying days as the leader of Ghana in the 1950s and early 1960s, Kwame Nkrumah was a flamboyant spellbinder.[157] At home, he created a cult of personality and gloried in the title of Osagyefo (Akan for 'Redeemer'). Abroad, he met with the world's leaders as the first man to lead an African colony to independence after World War II."[158]
During his tenure as Prime Minister and then first President, Nkrumah succeeded in reducing the political importance of the local chieftaincy (e.g., the Akan chiefs and the Asantehene).[159] These chiefs had maintained authority during colonial rule through collaboration with the British authorities; in fact, they were sometimes favored over the local intelligentsia, who made trouble for the British with organizations like the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society.[160] The Convention People's Party had a strained relationship with the chiefs when it came to power, and this relationship became more hostile as the CPP incited political opposition chiefs and criticized the institution as undemocratic. Acts passed in 1958 and 1959 gave the government more power to dis-stool chiefs directly, and proclaimed government of stool land – and revenues.[161] These policies alienated the chiefs and led them to looking favorably on the overthrow of Nkrumah and his Party.[162]
Increased power of the Convention People's Party
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In 1962, three younger members of the CPP were brought up on charges of taking part in a plot to blow up Nkrumah's car in a motorcade. The sole evidence against the alleged plotters was that they rode in cars well behind Nkrumah's car.[103] When the defendants were acquitted, Nkrumah sacked the chief judge of the state security court, then got the CPP-dominated parliament to pass a law allowing a new trial.[163] At this second trial, all three men were convicted and sentenced to death, though these sentences were subsequently commuted to life imprisonment. Shortly afterward, the constitution was amended to give the president the power to summarily remove judges at all levels.[164]
In 1964, Nkrumah proposed a constitutional amendment that would make the CPP the only legal party, with Nkrumah as president for life of both nation and party. The amendment passed with 99.91 percent of the vote[citation needed], an implausibly high total that led observers to condemn the vote as "obviously rigged".[165] Ghana had effectively been a one-party state since independence. The amendment transformed Nkrumah's presidency into a de facto legal dictatorship.
Civil service
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After substantial Africanization of the civil service in 1952–60, the number of expatriates rose again from 1960 to 1965. Many of the new outside workers came not from the United Kingdom but from the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Italy.[166][6]
Education
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In 1951, the CPP created the Accelerated Development Plan for Education. This plan set up a six-year primary course, to be attended as close to universally as possible, with a range of possibilities to follow.[167] All children were to learn arithmetic, as well as gain "a sound foundation for citizenship with permanent literacy in both English and the vernacular." Primary education became compulsory in 1962. The plan also stated that religious schools would no longer receive funding, and that some existing missionary schools would be taken over by government.[168]
In 1961, Nkrumah laid the first stones in the foundation of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute created to train Ghanaian civil servants as well as promote Pan-Africanism. In 1964, all students entering college in Ghana were required to attend a two-week "ideological orientation" at the institute.[169] Nkrumah remarked that "trainees should be made to realize the party's ideology is religion, and should be practiced faithfully and fervently."[170]
In 1964, Nkrumah brought forth the Seven Year Development Plan for National Reconstruction and Development, which identified education as a key source of development and called for the expansion of secondary technical schools.[171] Secondary education would also include "in-service training programmes". As Nkrumah told Parliament: "Employers, both public and private, will be expected to make a far greater contribution to labour training through individual factory and farm schools, industry-wide training schemes, day release, payment for attendance at short courses and evening classes." This training would be indirectly subsidized with tax credits and import allocations.[172][168]
In 1952, the Artisan Trading Scheme, arranged with the Colonial Office and UK Ministry of Labour, provided for a few experts in every field to travel to Britain for technical education. Kumasi Technical Institute was founded in 1956.[173] In September 1960, it added the Technical Teacher Training Centre. In 1961, the CPP passed the Apprentice Act, which created a general Apprenticeship Board along with committees for each industry.[168]
Culture
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Nkrumah was an ardent promoter of pan-Africanism, seeing the movement as the "quest for regional integration of the whole of the African continent". The period of Nkrumah's active political involvement has been described as the "golden age of high pan-African ambitions"; the continent had experienced rising nationalist movements and decolonization by most European colonial powers, and historians have noted that "the narrative of rebirth and solidarity had gained momentum within the pan-Africanist movement". Reflecting his African heritage, Nkrumah frequently eschewed Western fashion, donning a fugu (a Northern attire) made with Southern-produced Kente cloth, a symbol of his identity as a representative of the entire country.[174] He oversaw the opening of the Ghana Museum on 5 March 1957; the Arts Council of Ghana, a wing of the Ministry of Education and Culture, in 1958; the Research Library on African Affairs in June 1961; and the Ghana Film Corporation in 1964.[156][175][176] In 1962, Nkrumah opened the Institute of African Studies.[168]
A campaign against nudity in the northern part of the country received special attention from Nkrumah, who reportedly deployed Propaganda Secretary Hannah Cudjoe to respond. Cudjoe also formed the Ghana Women's League, which advanced the Party's agenda on nutrition, raising children, and wearing clothing.[177] The League also led a demonstration against the detonation of French nuclear weapons in the Sahara.[178][179] Cudjoe was eventually demoted with the consolidation of national women's groups, and marginalized within the Party structure.[179]
Laws passed in 1959 and 1960 designated special positions in parliament to be held by women. Some women were promoted to the CPP Central Committee. Women attended more universities, took up more professions including medicine and law, and went on professional trips to Israel, the Soviet Union, and the Eastern Bloc. Women also entered the army and air force. Most women remained in agriculture and trade; some received assistance from the Co-operative Movement.[180][66][178]
Nkrumah's image was widely disseminated, for example, on postage stamps and on money, in the style of monarchs – providing fodder for accusations of a Nkrumahist personality cult.[181]
Media
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In 1957, Nkrumah created a well-funded Ghana News Agency to generate domestic news and disseminate it abroad. In ten years time the GNA had 8045 km of domestic telegraph line, and maintained stations in Lagos, Nairobi, London and New York City.[182][183]
Nkrumah consolidated state control over newspapers, establishing the Ghanaian Times in 1958 and then in 1962 obtaining its competitor, the Daily Graphic, from the Mirror Group of London.[185] As he wrote in Africa Must Unite: "It is part of our revolutionary credo that within the competitive system of capitalism, the press cannot function in accordance with a strict regard for the sacredness of facts, and that the press, therefore, should not remain in private hands." Starting in 1960, he invoked the right of pre-publication censorship of all news.[183]
The Gold Coast Broadcasting Service was established in 1954 and revamped as the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). Many television broadcasts featured Nkrumah, commenting for example on the problematic "insolence and laziness of boys and girls".[186] Before celebrations of May Day, 1963, Nkrumah went on television to announce the expansion of Ghana's Young Pioneers, the introduction of a National Pledge, the beginning of a National Flag salute in schools, and the creation of a National Training program to inculcate virtue and the spirit of service among Ghanaian youth.[187] Nkrumah outlined his views on the role of Ghanaian television to Parliament on 15 October 1963 saying, "Ghana's television will not cater for cheap entertainment or commercialism; its paramount objective will be education in its broadest and purest sense."[188][168]
As per the 1965 Instrument of Incorporation of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting had "powers of direction" over the media, and the President had the power "at any time, if he is satisfied that it is in the national interest to do so, take over the control and management of the affairs or any part of the functions of the Corporation," hiring, firing, reorganizing, and making other commands at will.[189][183]
Radio programmes, designed in part to reach non-reading members of the public, were a major focus of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. In 1961, the GBC formed an external service broadcasting in English, French, Arabic, Swahili, Portuguese and Hausa.[190] Using four 100-kilowatt transmitters and two 250-kilowatt transmitters, the GBC External Service broadcast 110 hours of Pan-Africanist programming to Africa and Europe each week.[183]
He refused advertising in all media, beginning with the Evening News of 1948.[183]
Economic policy
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See also: Economy of Ghana
The Gold Coast had been among the wealthiest and most socially advanced areas in Africa, with schools, railways, hospitals, social security, and an advanced economy.[191]
Nkrumah attempted to rapidly industrialize Ghana's economy. He reasoned that if Ghana escaped the colonial trade system by reducing dependence on foreign capital, technology, and material goods, it could become truly independent.[192]
After the Ten Year Development Plan, Nkrumah brought forth the Second Development Plan in 1959. This plan called for the development of manufacturing: 600 factories producing 100 varieties of product.[193]
The Statutory Corporations Act, passed in November 1959 and revised in 1961 and 1964, created the legal framework for public corporations, which included state enterprises. This law placed the country's major corporations under the direction of government ministers. The State Enterprises Secretariat office was located in Flagstaff House and under the direct control of the president.[194][195]
After visiting the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China in 1961, Nkrumah apparently became still more convinced of the need for state control of the economy.[196][195]
Nkrumah's time in office began successfully: forestry, fishing, and cattle-breeding expanded, production of cocoa (Ghana's main export) doubled, and modest deposits of bauxite and gold were exploited more effectively.[197] The construction of a dam on the River Volta (launched in 1961) provided water for irrigation and hydro-electric power, which produced enough electricity for the towns and for a new aluminum plant. Government funds were also provided for village projects in which local people built schools and roads,[198][199] while free health care and education were introduced.[200][201][202]
A Seven-Year Plan introduced in 1964 focused on further industrialization, emphasizing domestic substitutes for common imports, modernization of the building materials industry, machine making, electrification and electronics.[203][193]
Energy projects
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Nkrumah's advocacy of industrial development, with help of longtime friend and Minister of Finance, Komla Agbeli Gbedema, led to the Volta River Project: the construction of a hydroelectric power plant, the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River in eastern Ghana.[204] The Volta River Project was the centrepiece of Nkrumah's economic programme. On 20 February 1958, he told the National Assembly: "It is my strong belief that the Volta River Project provides the quickest and most certain method of leading us towards economic independence."[205] Ghana used assistance from the United States, Israel and the World Bank in constructing the dam.[206][207]
Kaiser Aluminum agreed to build the dam for Nkrumah, but restricted what could be produced using the power generated. Nkrumah borrowed money to build the dam, and placed Ghana in debt. To finance the debt, he raised taxes on the cocoa farmers in the south. This accentuated regional differences and jealousy. The dam was completed and opened by Nkrumah amidst global publicity on 22 January 1966.
Nkrumah initiated the Ghana Nuclear Reactor Project in 1961, created the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission in 1963, and in 1964 laid the first stone in the building of an atomic energy facility.[208][209]
Cocoa
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In 1954 the world price of cocoa rose from £150 to £450 per ton. Rather than allowing cocoa farmers to keep the windfall, Nkrumah appropriated the increased revenue via central government levies, then invested the capital into various national development projects.[210] This policy alienated one of the major constituencies that helped him come to power.[211]
Prices continued to fluctuate. In 1960 one ton of cocoa sold for £250 in London. By August 1965 this price had dropped to £91, one fifth of its value ten years before.[76] The quick price decline caused the government's reliance on the reserves and forced farmers to take a portion of their earning in bonds.[212]
Foreign and military policy
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Nkrumah actively promoted a policy of Pan-Africanism from the beginning of his presidency. This entailed the creation of a series of new international organizations, which held their inaugural meetings in Accra.[213] These were:
the First Conference of Independent States, in April 1958;[214]
the more inclusive All-African Peoples' Conference, with representatives from 62 nationalist organizations from across the continent, in December 1958;[215]
the All-African Trade Union Federation, meeting in November 1959, to coordinate the African labour movement;[216]
the Positive Action and Security in Africa conference, in April 1960, discussing Algeria, South Africa, and French nuclear weapons testing;[217]
the Conference of African Women, on 18 July 1960.[76][207]
Meanwhile, Ghana withdrew from colonial organizations including West Africa Airways Corporation, the West African Currency Board, the West African Cocoa Research Institute, and the West African Court of Appeal.[218][76]
In the Year of Africa, 1960, Nkrumah negotiated the creation of a Union of African States, a political alliance between Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Immediately, they formed a women's group called Women of the Union of African States.[219][178]
Nkrumah was a leading figure in the short-lived Casablanca Group of African leaders, which sought to achieve pan-African unity and harmony through deep political, economic, and military integration of the continent in the early 1960s prior to the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).[220][221] In 1961, he was a participant in the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia making Ghana one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Nkrumah was instrumental in the creation of the OAU in Addis Ababa in 1963.[156] He aspired to create a united military force, the African High Command, which Ghana would substantially lead, and committed to this vision in Article 2 of the 1960 Republican Constitution:[222]"In the confident expectation of an early surrender of sovereignty to a union of African states and territories, the people now confer on Parliament the power to provide for the surrender of the whole or any part of the sovereignty of Ghana."[76][223]
He was also a proponent of the United Nations, but critical of the Great Powers' ability to control it.[207]
Nkrumah opposed the entry of African states into the Common Market of the European Economic Community, a status given to many former French colonies and considered by Nigeria. Instead, Nkrumah advocated, in a speech given on 7 April 1960,[224]
an African common market, a common currency area and the development of communications of all kinds to allow the free flow of goods and services. International capital can be attracted to such viable economic areas, but it would not be attracted to a divided and balkanized Africa, with each small region engaged in senseless and suicidal economic competition with its neighbours.[225][207]
Nkrumah sought to exploit the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in order to gain maximum concessions from both sides in their geopolitical attempts to outmanoeuvre one another in West Africa and elsewhere.[226] This was exemplified by the Volta River Dam Project and its back-and-forth oscillation between Soviet and Western financial backing.[227]
Armed forces
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In 1956, the Gold Coast took control of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF), Gold Coast Regiment, from the British War Office. This force had formerly been deployed to quell internal dissent, and occasionally to fight in wars: most recently, in World War II, against the Japanese in India and Burma.[228] The most senior officers in this force were British, and, although training of African officers began in 1947, only 28 of 212 officers in December 1956 were indigenous Africans. The British officers still received British salaries, which vastly exceeded those allotted to their Ghanaian counterparts. Concerned about a possible military coup, Nkrumah delayed the placement of African officers in top leadership roles.[229][230]
Nkrumah quickly established the Ghanaian Air Force, acquiring 14 Beaver airplanes from Canada and setting up a flight school with British instructors. Otters, Caribou, and Chipmunks were to follow.[229] Ghana also obtained four Ilyushin-18 aircraft from the Soviet Union. Preparation began in April 1959 with assistance from India and Israel.[231] Nkrumah also established a gliding school led by Hanna Reitsch and J.E.S. de Graft-Hayford.
The Ghanaian Navy received two inshore minesweepers with 40mm and 20mm guns, the Afadzato and the Yogaga, from Britain in December 1959. It subsequently received the Elmina and the Komenda, seaward defence boats with 40-millimetre guns.[229] The Navy's flagship, and training ship, was the Achimota, a British yacht constructed during World War II. In 1961, the Navy ordered two 600-ton corvettes, the Keta and Kromantse, from Vosper & Company and received them in 1967. It also procured four Soviet patrol boats. Naval officers were trained at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth.[232] The Ghanaian military budget rose each year, from $9.35 million (US dollars) in 1958 to $47 million in 1965.[233]
The first international deployment of the Ghanaian armed forces was to the Congo (Léopoldville/Kinshasa), where Ghanaian troops were airlifted in 1960 at the beginning of the Congo Crisis.[229] One week after Belgian troops occupied the lucrative mining province of Katanga, Ghana dispatched more than a thousand of its own troops to join a United Nations force.[234] The use of British officers in this context was politically unacceptable, and this event occasioned a hasty transfer of officer positions to Ghanaians.[229][235] The Congo war was long and difficult.[234] On 19 January 1961 the Third Infantry Battalion mutinied. On 28 April 1961, 43 men were massacred in a surprise attack by the Congolese army.[236]
Ghana also gave military support to rebels fighting against Ian Smith's white-minority government in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), which had unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965.[237]
Relationship with Communist world
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In 1961, Nkrumah went on tour through Eastern Europe, proclaiming solidarity with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.[76] Nkrumah's clothing changed to the Chinese-supplied Mao suit.[238][239]
In 1962 Kwame Nkrumah was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union.[240]
1966 coup d'état
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In February 1966, while Nkrumah was on a state visit to North Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a violent coup d'état led by the national military and police forces, with backing from the civil service.[241] The conspirators, led by Joseph Arthur Ankrah, named themselves the National Liberation Council and ruled as a military government for three years. Nkrumah did not learn of the coup until he arrived in China. After the coup, Nkrumah stayed in Beijing for four days, and Premier Zhou Enlai treated him with courtesy.[242][243]
Nkrumah alluded to American involvement in the coup in his 1969 memoir, Dark Days in Ghana; he may have based this conclusion on documents shown to him by the KGB.[244][245] In 1978 John Stockwell, former Chief of the Angola Task Force of the CIA turned critic, wrote that agents at the CIA's Accra station "maintained intimate contact with the plotters as a coup was hatched". Afterward, "inside CIA headquarters the Accra station was given full, if unofficial credit for the eventual coup. ...None of this was adequately reflected in the agency's written records."[246][247] Later that same year, Seymour Hersh, then at The New York Times, defended Stockwell's account, citing "first hand intelligence sources". He claimed that "many CIA operatives in Africa considered the agency's role in the overthrow of Dr. Nkrumah to have been pivotal."[248][249] These claims have never been verified.[250][251]
Following the coup, Ghana realigned itself internationally, cutting its close ties to Guinea and the Eastern Bloc, accepting a new friendship with the Western Bloc, and inviting the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to take a leading role in managing the economy.[252][failed verification] With this reversal, accentuated by the expulsion of immigrants and a new willingness to negotiate with apartheid South Africa, Ghana lost a good deal of its stature in the eyes of African nationalists.[253][76]
In assessing Nkrumah's legacy, Edward Luttwak argued that he was undone by the growth of political consciousness and his inability to repress potential opponents:
Nkrumah, in spite of his eccentricities, was largely defeated by his own success: the by-product of the considerable economic development achieved by Ghana was to stimulate and educate the masses and the new elite; their attitude to Nkrumah's regime became more and more critical in the light of the education the regime itself provided. When this happens, more and more repression and propaganda are needed to maintain political stability. In spite of considerable efforts, Nkrumah was unable to build a sufficiently ruthless police system. The cause of his downfall was not, therefore, the mismanagement of the economy—which was considerable—but rather the success of much of the development effort.
— Edward Luttwak, Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook (1968)
Exile and death
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Nkrumah died on 27 April 1972, in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.[254] Nkrumah died of an unknown but apparently incurable sickness. Since the coup, he had since that time been living in the Guinean capital of Conakry, lying low.
Tributes and Legacy
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Over his lifetime, Nkrumah was awarded honorary doctorates by many universities including Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), Moscow State University (USSR), Cairo University (Egypt), Jagiellonian University (Poland), and Humboldt University (East Germany).[255]
In 2000, he was voted African Man of the Millennium by listeners to the BBC World Service, being described by the BBC as a "Hero of Independence", and an "International symbol of freedom as the leader of the first black African country to shake off the chains of colonial rule."[256][257]
According to intelligence documents released by the U.S. Department of State's Office of the Historian, "Nkrumah was doing more to undermine [U.S. government] interests than any other black African."[258]
In September 2009, President John Atta Mills declared 21 September (the 100th anniversary of Kwame Nkrumah's birth) to be Founders' Day, a statutory holiday in Ghana to celebrate the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah.[259] In April 2019, President Akufo-Addo approved the Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2019 which changed 21 September from Founders' Day to Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.[260]
Nkrumah generally took a non-aligned Marxist perspective on economics, and believed capitalism had malignant effects that were going to stay with Africa for a long time.[261] Although he was clear on distancing himself from the African socialism of many of his contemporaries, Nkrumah argued that socialism was the system that would best accommodate the changes that capitalism had brought, while still respecting African values.[262] He specifically addresses these issues and his politics in a 1967 essay entitled "African Socialism Revisited":
We know that the traditional African society was founded on principles of egalitarianism. In its actual workings, however, it had various shortcomings. Its humanist impulse, nevertheless, is something that continues to urge us towards our all-African socialist reconstruction. We postulate each man to be an end in himself, not merely a means; and we accept the necessity of guaranteeing each man equal opportunities for his development. The implications of this for sociopolitical practice have to be worked out scientifically, and the necessary social and economic policies pursued with resolution. Any meaningful humanism must begin from egalitarianism and must lead to objectively chosen policies for safeguarding and sustaining egalitarianism. Hence, socialism. Hence, also, scientific socialism.[263]
Nkrumah was also best-known politically for his strong commitment to and promotion of pan-Africanism. He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals such as Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. Much of his understanding and relationship to these men was created during his years in America as a student.[264] Some would argue that his greatest inspiration was Marcus Garvey,[265] although he also had a meaningful relationship with C. L. R. James. Nkrumah looked to these men to craft a general solution to the ills of Africa. To follow in these intellectual footsteps Nkrumah had intended to continue his education in London, but found himself involved in direct activism.[266] Then, motivated by advice from Du Bois, Nkrumah decided to focus on creating peace in Africa. He became a passionate advocate of the "African Personality", embodied in the slogan "Africa for the Africans", earlier popularised by Edward Wilmont Blyden, and he viewed political independence as a prerequisite for economic independence.[74] Nkrumah's dedications to pan-Africanism in action attracted these intellectuals to his Ghanaian projects. Many Americans, such as Du Bois and Kwame Ture, moved to Ghana to join him in his efforts. These men[who?] are buried there today.[267] His press officer for six years was the Grenadian anticolonialist Sam Morris. Nkrumah's biggest success in this area was his significant influence in the founding of the Organisation of African Unity.[268]
Nkrumah also became a symbol for black liberation in the United States. When in 1958 the Harlem Lawyers Association had an event in Nkrumah's honour, diplomat Ralph Bunche told him:
We salute you, Kwame Nkrumah, not only because you are Prime Minister of Ghana, although this is cause enough. We salute you because you are a true and living representation of our hopes and ideals, of the determination we have to be accepted fully as equal beings, of the pride we have held and nurtured in our African origin, of the freedom of which we know we are capable, of the freedom in which we believe, of the dignity imperative to our stature as men.[269][207]
In 1961, Nkrumah delivered a speech called "I Speak Of Freedom". During this speech he talked about how "Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world".[270] He mentions how Africa is a land of "vast riches" with mineral resources from that "range from gold and diamonds to uranium and petroleum".[270] Nkrumah says that the reason Africa is not thriving right now is because the European powers have been taking all the wealth for themselves. If Africa could be independent of European rule, he said, then it could truly flourish and contribute positively to the world. In the ending words of this speech Nkrumah calls his people to action by saying "This is our chance.[271] We must act now. Tomorrow may be too late and the opportunity will have passed, and with it the hope of free Africa's survival".[270] This rallied the nation in a nationalistic movement.[citation needed]
In his honour, an annual event called "Journey to Nkroful" was set up to celebrate his birthday.[272] Mausoleum and Museum at Nkroful, Western Region have been named after him that showcase some of the artifacts he used when alive.[273]
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park & Museum, Accra has been there to keep memory of him. Also, University of Science and Technology was changed to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to recognise his support building a strong education system in the country.[274][275][276]
Personal life
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Kwame Nkrumah married Fathia Ritzk, an Egyptian Coptic bank worker and former teacher, on the evening of her arrival in Ghana: New Year's Eve, 1957–1958.[277] Fathia's mother refused to bless their marriage, after another one of her children left with a foreign husband.[278][279]
As a married couple, Fathia and Nkrumah had three children: Gamal (born 1958), Samia (born 1960) and Sekou (born 1964). Gamal is a newspaper journalist, while Samia and Sekou are politicians. Nkrumah also has another son, Francis, a paediatrician (born 1935).[280][281][282] [283][284]
Cultural depictions
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In the 2010 book The Other Wes Moore, Nkrumah, during his time in the United States, is noted to have served as a mentor to the author's grandfather for several months upon the immigration of the author's family into the country.[285]
Nkrumah is played by Danny Sapani in the Netflix television series The Crown (season 2, episode 8 "Dear Mrs Kennedy"). The show's portrayal of the historical significance of the Queen's visit to Ghana and dance with Nkrumah has been described as exaggerated in one source interviewing Nat Nuno-Amarteifio, later mayor of Accra, who was a teenage student at the time.[286]
African's Black Star: The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah is a 2011 film about the rise and fall of this colonial rebellion leader.
A golden statue of Nkrumah is a centerpiece in Ghanaian rapper Serious Klein's 2021 video "Straight Outta Pandemic".[287]
Works by Kwame Nkrumah
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"Negro History: European Government in Africa", The Lincolnian, 12 April 1938, p. 2 (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania) – see Special Collections and Archives, Lincoln University Archived 17 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine[288]
"Primitive Education in West Africa," Educational Outlook, January 1941 (University of Pennsylvania). See Archived 3 March 2024 at the Wayback Machine
"Education and Nationalism in Africa," Educational Outlook, November 1943 (University of Pennsylvania). See Archived 3 March 2024 at the Wayback Machine
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957). ISBN 0-901787-60-4[289]
Africa Must Unite (1963). ISBN 0-901787-13-2[290]
African Personality (1963)[291]
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
— Introduction
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965)[292][293]
Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967). ISBN 0-901787-54-X[294]
African Socialism Revisited (1967)[295]
Challenge of the Congo Archived 5 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine (1967)
Voice From Conakry (1967). ISBN 90-17-87027-3
Dark Days in Ghana (1968). ISBN 0-7178-0046-6[296]
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968). ISBN 0-7178-0226-4[297]
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970). ISBN 0-901787-11-6[298]
Class Struggle in Africa (1970). ISBN 0-901787-12-4[299]
The Struggle Continues (1973). ISBN 0-901787-41-8[300]
I Speak of Freedom (1973). ISBN 0-901787-14-0[301]
Revolutionary Path (1973). ISBN 978-0-901787-22-4[302]
Festival
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For details see Kwame Nkrumah Festival
See also
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Nkrumah government
Notes
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References
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Bibliography
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Addo, Ebenezer Obiri (1997). Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study of Religion and Politics in Ghana. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-0785-8.
Birmingham, David (1998). Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1242-8.
Bourret, F. M. (1960) [1949]. Ghana—The Road to Independence (Revised ed.). Stanford University Press. OCLC 414362.
Clarke, John Henrik (October 1974). "Kwame Nkrumah: His years in America". The Black Scholar. 6 (2): 9–16. doi:10.1080/00064246.1974.11431459. JSTOR 41065759. S2CID 141785632.
Fuller, Harcourt (2014). Building the Ghanaian Nation-State. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-44856-9.
Mazrui, Ali (2004). Nkrumah's Legacy and Africa's Triple Heritage Between Globalization and Counter Terrorism. Ghana Universities Press. ISBN 978-9964-3-0296-2.
Owusu-Ansah, David (2014). Biographical Dictionary of Ghana (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-7242-4.
Rooney, David (1988). Kwame Nkrumah: The Political Kingdom in the Third World. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-02479-6.
Sherwood, Marika (1996). Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad 1935–1947. Freedom Publications. ISBN 978-9988-7716-0-7.
Thompson, W. Scott (1969). Ghana's Foreign Policy 1957–1966. Princeton University Press. OCLC 2616.
Further reading
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Faces of Africa Kwame Nkrumah Archived 5 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine
Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and Museum at Nkroful, Western Region
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park & Museum, Accra Archived 22 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
Ghana-pedia Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana-pedia Operation Cold Chop: The Fall Of Kwame Nkrumah[permanent dead link]
Excerpt from Commanding Heights Archived 22 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
Timeline of events related to the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
The Kwame Nkrumah Lectures at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, 2007 Archived 27 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
Kwame Nkrumah Information and Resource Site Archived 16 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
Ghana re-evaluates Nkrumah Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine by The Global Post
Dr Kwame Nkrumah's Midnight Speech on the day of Ghana's independence – 6 March 1957.
Newsreel on First Conference of Independent African States Archived 9 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
"Father of Ghana's independence Kwame Nkrumah died 50 years ago • FRANCE 24 English" Archived 28 April 2024 at the Wayback Machine
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‘The United Nations (UN) is a complex organization and reforms are difficult’ says the noble laureate, Kofi Annan when he was asked what his challenges were while working there.
But he was poised to reform it anyway. So he set off by launching a comprehensive reform program.
Barely six weeks after the launch, however, a critic published an article in the New York Times accusing him of failing to reform the UN in six weeks flat.
As was his habit, he held his usual monthly lunch with UN Security Council members.
Except that, this time, he started his address with an apology for not reforming the UN in six weeks flat.
But his apology fell on the wrong side of the former Russian Ambassador. Sergey Lavrov was the only communist present and he quoted the Bible to challenge the Secretary-General.
‘Mr. Secretary General, what are you complaining about? You’ve had more time than God had in creating the world’ he argued.
But the scathing attack will not do much harm to the confidence of the distinguished Ghanaian diplomat.
Rather he conceded to Mr. Lavrov’s assertion, saying ‘Mr. Ambassador you are right. But God had a unique advantage – He worked alone – without the Security Council’.
The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan shared this experience during the Q&A session after his lecture on ‘leadership and public service’at a public lecture by the alumni of his alma mater Mfantsipim College dubbed ‘An afternoon with Kofi Annan, at the Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel about a year ago.
Kofi Annan passes on
Kofi Annan passed away on Saturday, August 2018 after a short illness at a Hospital in the Swiss city of Bern.
He reportedly fell ill on his way back from South Africa (the Mandela centenary).
He was hospitalized in Geneva and later airlifted to the capital, Bern.
A statement from the Kofi Annan Foundation said, “His wife Nane and their children Ama, Kojo and Nina were by his side during his last days.”
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Former United Nation’s Secretary-General, Kofi Annan passed away on Saturday at the age of 80 after a short illness.
Kofi Annan died at a Hospital in the Swiss city of Bern.
[contextly_sidebar id=”8Ti24o3lQO0ExKoIvYC1skXI31oWg7mC”]Reports indicate that Kofi Annan was hospitalized in Geneva and later airlifted to the Swiss capital, Bern where he died.
A statement from his foundation said, “His wife Nane and their children Ama, Kojo and Nina were by his side during his last days.”
Several tributes have poured in from every part of the world for late Annan for the vital role he played for world peace.
Below are 15 things to know about late Kofi Annan:
Kofi Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations. His term began on 1 January 1997
He joined the UN system in 1962 as an administrative and budget officer with the WHO in Geneva.
He served with the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa
He served on the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF II) in Ismailia
He served at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva
He also served at UN Headquarters in New York, as Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management and Security Coordinator for the UN System
He was also the Assistant Secretary-General for Programme Planning, Budget, and Finance
In 1990, he also undertook a special assignment, to facilitate the repatriation of more than 900 international staff and the release of Western hostages in Iraq
He also led the first United Nations team negotiating with Iraq on the sale of oil to fund purchases of humanitarian aid
Before being appointed Secretary-General, Mr. Annan served as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations (March 1993 – February 1994) and then as Under-Secretary-General (February 1994 – October 1995; April 1996 – December 1996)
He was a former Chancellor of the University of Ghana
He studied at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and completed his undergraduate work in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., in 1961
From 1961 to 1962, he undertook graduate studies in economics at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes études Internationales in Geneva.
In 2001, he and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. Kofi Annan was praised for being “pre-eminent in bringing new life to the organization.” (Norwegian Nobel Committee, October 2001)
He was married to Nane Annan, of Sweden. They had three children.
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Film & Television
The visual arts, storytelling, drama—for many Sarah Lawrence students, these combine in a passion for the art of cinema. Courses in the history, aesthetics, and rhetoric of film build on strong backgrounds in the liberal arts, producing students with broad cultural awareness, refined critical judgment, and highly developed creative ability—ideal for careers in the film industry, where they work as independent filmmakers, producers, directors, screenwriters, and casting agents.
J.J. Abrams ’88
(creator, executive producer, screenwriter, director)
In his final year at Sarah Lawrence, J.J. Abrams collaborated with a friend to write a feature film treatment, which became 1990’s Taking Care of Business. Since then, he has written such films as Regarding Henry, Forever Young, Armageddon, and Joy Ride; and served as co-creator and executive producer of the TV series Felicity and creator and executive producer of the series Alias and Lost. For the former series, Abrams also co-wrote the theme song; for the latter, he composed theme music. He has directed episodes of both. He also co-created, produced, and wrote for the science fiction series, Fringe.
Abrams wrote and directed Mission: Impossible III, produced and directed Star Trek and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, and, most recently, wrote, produced, and directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Jon Avnet ’71
(film director and producer)
Jon Avnet says Sarah Lawrence helped him hone the most important skill for anyone trying to create high-quality work in film: original thinking. “It’s the ability to process lots of input and come up with a decision, as opposed to simply knowing how others have done it. What interested me was doing things in ways no one had ever done before. The fit between me and Sarah Lawrence was natural.”
“At Sarah Lawrence, instead of learning to distrust your impulses, you were told, see where they go, where they lead,” Avnet says. His passion for performance led him, while he was a student, to the La Mama theatre company in New York City. “I did everything from hanging lights to directing stuff that had been written by other Sarah Lawrence students.” Avnet’s credits include Risky Business, The Burning Bed, Fried Green Tomatoes, Righteous Kill—a 2008 film starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino—and the critically acclaimed television series Boomtown. He also produced Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and the award winning Broadway productions Spamalot and Pillowman, nominated for a combined 20 Tony’s. The Sarah Lawrence education calls for high initiative, Avnet says. “But if you’re a self-starter and willing to accept the challenge of uncertainty, which is pretty daunting, it’s a great place.”
Damani Baker ’96
(documentary filmmaker, director: Still Bill and The House on Coco Road)
Damani Baker's over 20-year career as a filmmaker includes work that spans museum installation, feature documentaries and advertising. Most recently in The House on Coco Road (acquired by Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY RESELASING), Baker combined family super-8 with, archival news and family interviews to weave his mother's personal story with broader historical threads to tell a story of migration and the Grenada Revolution. The House on Coco Road and his first feature Still Bill, on the life and music of Bill Withers, have been critically acclaimed and featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Time Out and the Village Voice among others. Both Still Bill and The House on Coco Road enjoy worldwide distribution on Showtime, Netflix, and BBC.
His perspective has gained the attention of clients such as Apple, Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA), Wieden+Kennedy, Rainforest Alliance, IBM and the UN. With RAA, Baker has directed over 20 films for museums around the world featuring such notables as President Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, all stories rooted in understanding the human story as it's connection to place. He’s recently returned from Iceland where he directed “Waterfalls”, a music video for Meshell Ndegeocello. Produced by his production arm Station 10, Baker collaborated with students in the United Nations University Program on Gender Equality to deliver this groundbreaking work.
Baker's work has been supported by Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, the George Soros Foundation and he is an alum of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 to watch. Baker is also a tenured professor at Sarah Lawrence College where he teaches filmmaking to a diverse group of creatives, ensuring the stories from all of our communities continue to be told with grace, dignity, and power.
Debra Zane ’83
(casting director)
“I knew a large university wasn’t for me,” says Debra Zane, “so even going to Sarah Lawrence was following my heart. I just continued to follow it.” To Zane, “following it” meant doing what felt right—and eventually ending up as a leading Hollywood casting director. “People should be patient with themselves,” she says. “I didn’t know what I was doing for six years after graduation, but I did know enough about myself to move on from smaller jobs.”
In the late 1980s, Zane moved from Manhattan to California. There she discovered an interest in casting while working on a film with fellow Sarah Lawrence alum Jon Avnet. By the mid-90s, she had founded her own company, Debra Zane Casting, through which she has helped create such popular and critically acclaimed films as Wag the Dog (1997), American Beauty (1999), Traffic (2000), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), and Dreamgirls (2006). She credits Sarah Lawrence with preparing her for the opinion-driven crossfire of film production meetings. “Because it was a nice small place, the teachers made you feel like you had something to say. And you had to be accountable. It made me feel that what I have to say is worth listening to.”
Performing Arts
The performing arts at Sarah Lawrence integrate theoretical study and practical experience in the context of a liberal arts education. Students develop perspective, interpretive skills, and knowledge to augment their work in the performing arts. Sarah Lawrence’s proximity to New York City draws world-class practitioners as faculty and allows students to observe and participate in the professional world prior to graduation.
Tovah Feldshuh
(actress: Broadway, television, and film)
You may know Tovah Feldshuh as Israel’s fourth Prime Minister, Golda Meir, in Golda’s Balcony, the hit Broadway play that earned the actress her fourth Drama Desk Award, her first Lucille Lortel, and her fourth Tony nomination. Or you may remember her as Helena in the miniseries Holocaust or Danielle Melnick on Law & Order—both of which earned her Emmy nominations—or for roles in the 2006 films Lady in the Water and Just My Luck. In her 30-plus-year Broadway, television, and film career, she finds that the heart of her accomplishments is the pathway, not the prizes. “In college, I learned that it’s the process that’s invaluable. Sarah Lawrence made my education very process-oriented, not only results-oriented. Results inevitably reflect the journey taken.” At Sarah Lawrence , where she focused on philosophy, Feldshuh learned not only how to perform the play, “but how the play is built, explored, investigated. Most importantly—how one can try, fail, and try again. We could dare.”
Julianna Margulies ’89
(actress: The Good Wife, ER, Paradise Road, The Mists of Avalon, Canterbury’s Law, The Sopranos, City Island)
“My experience at Sarah Lawrence gave me a great sense of self, and it gave me such confidence in being an independent thinker,” she says. “Whether it was through theatre studies, English lit, art history, or the history of film, I left with a deeper knowledge of who I was, because I was allowed to fully explore these subjects and inspired to think for myself.”
Acclaimed actress and alumna Julianna Margulies is widely respected for the integrity of her work in film, television, and theatre. Getting her start in student productions at Sarah Lawrence, Margulies won best actress Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in 2010 for her leading role in the CBS series The Good Wife. This SAG award is her seventh. Also in 2010, Margulies starred opposite Andy Garcia in the dramatic comedy, City Island. Co-starring Alan Arkin and Emily Mortimer, the film won the 2009 Audience Award at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. Her feature credits also include Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan and Paradise Road with Glenn Close.
As one of the original cast members of the renowned NBC television series ER, Margulies earned both an Emmy Award and a SAG Award for her role as nurse Carole Hathaway. Other TV projects have included The Mists of Avalon miniseries, The Sopranos, and The Grid, for which she received Golden Globe nominations.
On stage, Julianna Margulies received a Lucille Lortel Award for her work opposite Donald Sutherland in Robin Baitz’s Ten Unknowns at Lincoln Center, and she went on to make her Broadway debut in Festen. Additional theatre performances have included The Vagina Monologues and Kate Robin’s Intrigue with Faye, among numerous others.
Watch Julianna Margulies' 2010 Commencement address
Meredith Monk ’64
(performance artist, composer, singer, director/choreographer, and performer)
Meredith Monk refuses to be categorized. Besides being a “genius” (she won the prestigious MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 1995), Monk is a singer, filmmaker, artist, composer, performer, director, and choreographer. In 1968, Monk founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. In 1978, she expanded the musical territory of voice with Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble. Monk has also pioneered site-specific performance, creating such works as “American Archaeology #1: Roosevelt Island,” among others. Her work has been featured in a retrospective art exhibition, Meredith Monk: Archaeology of an Artist, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. “A Sarah Lawrence education teaches you that you are in charge of yourself, that learning is a lifetime occupation, and that you have the right and duty to be what some people would call a ‘troublemaker’—that is, an independent, intelligent, curious person who wants to find his or her own solutions to things.”
Jimmy Tate ’91
(professional dancer, singer/songwriter, performer)
Sarah Lawrence can’t take credit for teaching Jimmy Tate how to dance. When he was just 13, he played the starring role in The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway. At Sarah Lawrence, he took the opportunity to explore music—including courses in electronic music—and fiction and poetry writing. He developed a new vocation, as a folk singer and songwriter, and spent afternoons on the College lawn playing guitar with other student musicians. He also did a one-man show in the Students of Color Series on campus, and other students enlisted him to perform in their shows. Sarah Lawrence “really reawakened my love for the theatre,” he says. Tate now has two career paths. One is dance and musical theatre: he starred on Broadway in Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk, and currently teaches at the Broadway Dance Center in New York City. The other is as a folk singer/songwriter who has released his own CD, Play Me. Tate says he was especially influenced by the Sarah Lawrence environment. “To meet so many different people broadened my idea of what I wanted to do and who I wanted to be.”
David Warren ’83
(theatre director)
“I found my voice as a director as an undergraduate, and that’s very unusual,” says David Warren. “I think it was a combination of who I am and the fact that Sarah Lawrence had one of the few undergraduate departments where you could direct a full production.” His career took off in his senior year, when he did an internship as a directing apprentice at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. “It was the moment when my education went from the theoretical to the practical in a very organized way,” he says. Warren garnered an Obie Award for Pterodactyls, and directed Matt & Ben, a 2002 Fringe Festival hit that tells the “story” of Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Good Will Hunting. He has worked on two Broadway productions and recently directed his first TV show, an episode of Desperate Housewives. “At Sarah Lawrence, I learned how meaning is made, which is the heart of directing.”
Visual Arts & Arts Management
The College offers courses taught by active, professional artists in a wide spectrum of media—drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture—and in visual fundamentals, an introduction to converting ideas into visual structures. Students take advantage of the College’s proximity to New York City by visiting the constant variety of art on exhibit in its many museums, galleries, and studios.
Janine Antoni ’86
(performance artist; sculptor; painter; work exhibited in Atlanta, Boston, Dublin, London, New York, and Venice)
Award-winning artist Janine Antoni has exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Her work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture; her primary tool for making sculpture is her own body. “Trusting my inclinations…was the most valuable lesson I learned at Sarah Lawrence.” How did the artist develop such a nontraditional approach to art? In many ways, the journey began at Sarah Lawrence, where Antoni studied literature, psychology, anthropology, and religion, and visited New York City museums. “What prepared me most for being an artist,” Antoni recalls, “was the ability to form a curriculum that nurtured my passions. Trusting my inclinations—and the confidence to enter into the world and explore where this inspiration might lead me—was the most valuable lesson I learned at Sarah Lawrence.”
John Pilson ’91
(video artist)
John Pilson transferred to Sarah Lawrence looking for a stronger arts program, and he found it. “It was such a relief to be able to design my own curriculum,” Pilson says. “Instead of art history, I studied the philosophy of aesthetics. It was great.” After he graduated from the MFA program in photography at Yale, Pilson became interested in video and began to use this medium to investigate the interior architecture of cities, especially office spaces. “I like to explore the ways life rushes into the corporate vacuum,” he says; one memorable work features doo-wop singers in an elevator.
Since his first video premiered at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Pilson has shown his work regularly in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany. At the 2002 Venice Biennale, he was awarded one of four prizes for artists in the International Exhibition. He currently teaches at Bard College and in the MFA program at Yale School of Art. “At Sarah Lawrence, I was surrounded by very talented and committed artists,” Pilson says. “I didn’t have a lot of confidence about being an artist myself, but the Sarah Lawrence community showed me how it could be done.”
Business
One quarter of Sarah Lawrence graduates are self-employed, and 6 percent earn MBAs, and this entrepreneurial spirit and managerial ability ties in directly to their academic experience. Here, students plan their own individualized academic programs, guided by their dons. As they create and pursue independent projects, the skills they learn in the process—planning, determining their needs, consulting with experts, and taking responsibility—are the tools necessary for success.
Peggy Woodford Forbes ’63
(chairman and CEO: Woodford Capital Management, LLC)
As chairman, CEO, and CIO of the firm she founded in 1990, Woodford Capital Management, LC, Peggy Woodford Forbes is the first African-American woman to establish a registered investment advisory firm in growth equity management in the United States. Forbes oversees the portfolio management team and the overall operations of the firm, located in Los Altos, California. She frequently contributes her investment insights to financial magazines and news shows. At Sarah Lawrence, she studied comparative literature. Big jump? Not so, she says. “At Sarah Lawrence, you have to stretch a lot, think a lot, and develop new ideas and strategies.”
Vera Wang ’71
(fashion designer and owner: Vera Wang Bridal House, Vera Wang brand fragrances, jewelry, shoes, and houseware collections)
Vera Wang entered Sarah Lawrence as a pre-med student, with a career as a championship figure skater already on her résumé. Before going on after graduation to become a renowned fashion designer, she studied theatre and art history. What allowed her to change course and prepared her to become one of the top figures in today’s fashion world? The answer is less about which courses she took than about what most students at Sarah Lawrence really focus on: creativity.
After graduation, Wang became an editor at Vogue, and later a design director for Ralph Lauren. Then, after a frustrating search for the perfect wedding dress, she did what any self-respecting Sarah Lawrence graduate would do: she designed her own. What followed was her trademark line of wedding dresses for contemporary women like herself who defy stereotypes. She has also created gowns for celebrities like Uma Thurman and Jennifer Lopez. Wang once said, “To redefine the color white is infinitely challenging.” And while she didn’t learn specifically how to redefine the color during her four years at the College, she learned to believe that she could.
Watch Vera Wang's 2013 Commencement address
Law
A Sarah Lawrence graduate arguing a complex or obscure case in court might flash back to a conference or seminar at the College. Here, students are steered away from simply accepting opinions or information handed down in books or from classmates and teachers. They learn that once they become well versed in the topic at hand, they should argue cogently for their interpretation of it. This training propels many Sarah Lawrence graduates on to the nation’s top law schools.
Mark P. Goodman ’83
(partner: Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City)
Before he came to Sarah Lawrence, Mark P. Goodman thought of law as dry and not particularly interesting. But during his second semester, a constitutional law course changed his mind. “I realized during that semester the extent to which the law pulled together strands of the other subjects I was studying, including history, sociology, philosophy, and even an element of theatre,” Goodman says. “It was also combative, which I liked.” Since he graduated from the New York University School of Law, Goodman has worked at a major Manhattan firm where he participated in high profile cases such as those involving flag burning and the death penalty argued before the United States Supreme Court, and business disputes over billion dollar mergers and acquisitions. He has also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York City.
Joy Vida Jones ’71
(attorney)
In her first year at the College, Joy Vida Jones intended to prepare for medical school, but by graduation she found herself prepared for almost anything. “At Sarah Lawrence, I learned how to learn,” she says. “That’s more important than what you learn.” She chose law school. A pivotal course for Jones was “American Institutions,” taught by Gerda Lerner, who later established the women’s history program at Sarah Lawrence. “She taught us to do research at the graduate level using primary sources. I didn’t realize how much I was learning at the time, but it was the most helpful thing once I got to law school.”
“The ongoing nature of conference work at Sarah Lawrence gave me realistic expectations with respect to the work world, which is also an ongoing process,” she says. Through that process, Jones became a partner at Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance), one of the world’s largest law firms. Before law school, Jones worked for Black Enterprise magazine as director of public affairs and at the African American Institute as program officer, bringing African professionals to the United States to meet their counterparts. For four years in the early 90s, she took a break from her law career to pursue a business venture: managing jazz musicians. Now she’s back in the law as a corporate attorney specializing in finance and real property. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Twenty-First Century Foundation, a national grant-making body for Black community initiatives and youth development.
Medicine & Science
Sarah Lawrence excels in training students for advanced work in medicine, psychology, and science. The College not only sends students to top graduate and medical schools, but also teaches the natural sciences and mathematics in a rigorous way that reveals to students—regardless of their career plans—the creative, elegant intellectual process inherent in formulating and testing hypotheses.
Roberto Flores de Apodaca ’74
(forensic psychologist and educator: Concordia University, Irvine, CA)
When Roberto Flores de Apodaca first arrived at Sarah Lawrence College more than 35 years ago, he was, in his own words, “just a little kid from New York City.” What happened during the next four years, though, taught him otherwise. He now holds a doctorate in psychology, is on the faculty of Concordia University in Irvine, California, and has a successful private practice as a forensic psychologist. “It was the unique combination of fundamentals paired with the freedom to pursue one’s individuality that made the difference,” he says. “Without that and the people at Sarah Lawrence who believed in me, I’m not sure I would have come this far.”
Joanne Kurtzberg ’72
(physician, scientist, director: Pediatric Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program, Duke University Medical Center)
In retrospect, it seems like a perfectly natural progression from the High School of Music and Art in New York City to Sarah Lawrence and then to New York Medical College. And Joanne Kurtzberg, director of the Pediatric Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program at Duke University Medical Center—an internationally recognized program dedicated to providing outstanding care and support to pediatric patients who can be helped by transplantation therapy—says that she would do it the same way all over again. When she began her liberal arts courses at Sarah Lawrence, science and math were running a close second to her first love, music. By the time she graduated in 1972, she knew medicine and not music would be her career. But she advises even those students who are considering medicine as a career not to narrow their focus too early. “Learn how to learn and seek a wider breadth of knowledge. To be able to recite a list of chemicals is not important to me. That’s not learning. Learn how to solve problems, how to figure things out on your own. That’s really learning.”
W. Ian Lipkin ’74
(professor of epidemiology, neurology, and pathology: Columbia University; Principal investigator and scientific director: Northeast Biodefense Center)
An internationally recognized expert in pathogen discovery, Ian Lipkin researches diseases of the central nervous system. He led the team that used unique molecular methods to identify the West Nile Virus as the cause of the encephalitis outbreak in New York State in 1999. Lipkin is also a pioneer in AIDS research. More recently, as a result of his work advising the Chinese government on dealing with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), he was asked to help run the first infectious disease center in China. “Sarah Lawrence gave me something critical to success in the long term: the confidence and the ability to think independently; to exploit serendipity; to be the ‘abnormal’ scientist who invents radical new theories.”
Andrew Schamess ’86
(former medical director: La Clinica del Pueblo, Washington, DC; private practice, Pittsfield, MA)
Andrew Schamess began questioning the roots of America’s medical system while he was an undergraduate. He did an internship at a homeless shelter for women in New York City’s Times Square and won a federal grant to study concepts of mental health in early American literature. He was drawn to medical school by a question that deeply distressed him: Why do people in the most need get the least help from doctors and hospitals? When he began his internship in internal medicine at George Washington University, he volunteered at La Clinica del Pueblo, a free community clinic in Washington, DC, that treats uninsured immigrants from Central and South America. As its medical director, he started specialized clinics for diabetes and reproductive health; he was also a professor at Howard University. “People tend to be sicker in the uninsured population. All of a sudden, you begin to realize why you’re in medicine—you could save a life.”
Scholarship & Teaching
Inspired by their own experience at Sarah Lawrence, a large number of graduates are drawn to scholarship and teaching at all levels, from early childhood to college. Nearly 70 percent of alumnae/i earn master’s degrees, and some 25 percent receive doctorates.
Karen Adolph ’86
(professor, neural science, psychology: New York University)
“My aim,” says Karen Adolph of her teaching, “is to capture students’ interest by structuring course work around issues that they already find compelling.” That philosophy of teaching, she notes, she first learned at Sarah Lawrence. “I loved the way I was taught at Sarah Lawrence, so I try to do that wherever I can.” At Sarah Lawrence’s Early Childhood Center, she says, “We were taught that every baby who came in was the most special child and that our job was to foster their independence—and we were facilitators. I teach those concepts to my students now.” A recipient of a 2003 Distinguished Teaching Award from NYU, Adolph clearly values her students. Other awards Adolph has received include a 2006 Merit Award from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, and the 2002 Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award of the American Psychological Foundation, among others. Adolph encourages students to visit her office. “At Sarah Lawrence,” she says, “we were used to talking with our professors—we even called them by their first names.”
Robert Rhodes ’90
(principal: Millennium High School)
Robert Rhodes isn’t just the principal of Millennium High School in lower Manhattan. He also designed its academic program, based on progressive techniques he first experienced at Sarah Lawrence. After graduation, Rhodes taught at an alternative high school for at-risk youth in Queens, then at Manhattan’s School of the Future, where he became the assistant principal. “I enjoy helping young people develop their passion for learning and teaching them to pursue their own ideas,” he says. At Sarah Lawrence, he focused on social science, with a sprinkling of science and math. He loved the close relationships between students and teachers, and has implemented a system akin to donning at his own school. “It’s so powerful to have an idea, and then meet with someone who cares deeply about the subject and talk it over,” he says.
Writing, Publishing & Journalism
The basis of a Sarah Lawrence education is communication—written and verbal—about ideas, opinions, and shades of meaning. And the College’s renowned writing program is one of the strongest in the country. It’s no wonder so many Sarah Lawrence graduates pursue careers in which they form ideas, stories, and images—or manage others who do.
Clay McLeod Chapman ’00
(novelist, playwright)
“It wasn’t difficult to bridge the gap between Sarah Lawrence and the professional world,” says Clay McLeod Chapman. “It happened all at once. The city was there already—part of my college experience.” That experience included a theatre internship at Performance Space 122, where Chapman performed monologues he had written. Shortly before he graduated, a literary agent happened to see him in a show. “She wanted to read more. Three weeks later, she called me to a meeting with Disney’s Hyperion Books. A week later I had signed a two-book contract.” Since then, he has produced the goods: Rest Area (Hyperion, 2002), a collection of stories, and Miss Corpus (Hyperion, 2003), a novel. He has also continued to perform his work in Manhattan and elsewhere with a theatre troupe that calls itself the Pumpkin Pie Show. “We’re an artistic hodgepodge of music, theatre, and literature. The literary component is basically me.” To Chapman, that combination seems a natural outgrowth of his education. “Sarah Lawrence gave me a finer understanding of writing—helped me see it as a medium that could stretch across many forms.”
Allan Gurganus ’72
(writer)
Though best known for his novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Knopf, 1989), Allan Gurganus also writes short stories, editorial essays, and film scripts. In the title novella of Gurganus’s collection The Practical Heart, a narrator tells the story of how his great-aunt, a poor Scottish immigrant, came to have her portrait painted by John Singer Sargent. “I’m still amazed that I can make a living by writing, getting paid to explore,” Gurganus says. His versatility and enthusiasm are traits he claims Sarah Lawrence fostered. During his first year, he studied writing, film history, Shakespeare, and choreography.
Susan Meiselas ’70
(photojournalist)
Susan Meiselas spent many years in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq where she first worked with Human Rights Watch in 1988 and 1989, documenting the destroyed villages and mass graves of Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign, an attempt to exterminate the Kurdish people. She has traveled in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States to compile a photo history of the Kurds that spans more than 100 years. Funded in part by a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the work resulted in a book, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (Random House, 1997), as well as an exhibit at the Menil Collection in Houston. She is also well known for her work documenting human rights abuses in Latin America. At Sarah Lawrence, Meiselas took an anthropology course about peasant societies, which she recalls “had to do with observation and connection with other cultures and the world,” and spent her junior year in an international honors program traveling with a group of students and professors through seven countries in various stages of development.
Ann Patchett ’85
(writer)
Before Ann Patchett graduated from Sarah Lawrence—where she studied with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley—she sold her first story to The Paris Review. But her course work wasn’t focused only on what it took to get ahead, she recalls. “As it turned out, it proved to be an excellent foundation for a novelist, but it would have been just as helpful to a linguist, a painter, a mathematician,” says the author of Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and England’s Orange Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
“The education at Sarah Lawrence was not so much a matter of filling our heads up with facts, but more of learning how to be able to go out and find facts yourself,” explains Patchett, “And it was about teaching us how to be curious.” Patchett’s novels, Run, Bel Canto, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft The Magician’s Assistant, brought her recognition, honors, and awards. In 2004, Truth & Beauty, her first work of nonfiction, was published. Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s 2004 Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, it is the story of Patchett’s friendship with the late Lucy Grealy ’85, author of the memoir Autobiography of a Face, whom Patchett met at Sarah Lawrence. Another work of nonfiction, What now?, was based on her 2006 commencement address at Sarah Lawrence . She has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Gourmet, O (the Oprah Magazine), and Vogue. “Sarah Lawrence taught me to desire knowledge, to seek it out not because it would be covered later on a test, but to seek it out because I knew it was something I had to have. It was the kind of education that made you hungry to know everything.”
Alice Walker ’65
(writer)
Alice Walker signed her first book contract before graduating from college. “It was at the College that I wrote my first published short story and my first book, there that I learned to feel that what I thought had some meaning.” “At Sarah Lawrence, I found all that I was looking for at the time—freedom to come and go, to read leisurely, to go my own way, dress my own way, and conduct my personal life as I saw fit.” Since then, the social activist, novelist, and poet has published numerous books, including Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (Random House, 2004), By the Light of My Father’s Smile (Random House, 1998), and The Color Purple (Harcourt Brace, 1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize for literature and was made into a 1985 film by Steven Spielberg as well as a 2005 Broadway musical play. In The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (Scribner, 1996), she describes the personal challenges and controversies around the making of the film of The Color Purple.
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Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist born in Tamale in 1987, has spent the last 10 years producing a thorough body of work that is socially involved and interacts with the different museums, art galleries, landmarks, and other public spaces that have hosted him. The artist deconstructs historical contexts marred by the idea of failure or catastrophe through his—often spectacular—artworks in attempt to uncover the positive outcomes that could result from such environments. The basic components of intimidating works that examine the topics of labor, migration, globalization, and commercial exchange are jute sackcloth, shoe-shine boxes, and sewing machines.
Ibrahim Mahama continues to consider recycled materials, the flow of products and knowledge, while simultaneously taking a fresh turn for his first solo exhibition in France. The Memory of Love combines textile, furniture, music, and architectural archives.
Visitors are welcomed by Untitled right away (2019). Six flags, chosen from the 25 that made up the piece when it was first shown in New York in front of the famous Rockefeller Center, are flown on the building’s façade to announce the location of the Frac to onlookers near and far. The banners, which are made of jute bags obtained from or purchased in Ghanaian markets, revisit one of the artist’s preferred materials. These bags, which were used to transport priceless goods like cocoa beans, preserve the memory of the men and women—migrants, laborers, and others—who carried them and occasionally left their names on them.
A selection of items from the artist’s own collection of wax prints and other colorful hand-crafted fabrics with a variety of symbols and meanings are combined with doors and windows taken from close by his Tamale studio, which is built on the site of a former grain silo in the Brutalist architectural style of the 1960s. On the roughly twenty doors that make up the main work, the disc motif—which also evokes a circle or body of water—seems to reference the availability of records with more than 50 albums of music typical of the post-independence era. These discs, which were gathered from a Ghanaian DJ’s family, are primarily artifacts from the post-colonial era, just like the doors, shelves (from his alma university), and wooden couches.The various designs—“Kofi Annan’s brain,” “Money can Fly,” “Fly whisk”—of these printed fabrics, also featured throughout the other panels/sculptures, revisit the history of Ghana in their own way, be it to praise political heroes, to commemorate historical events or to affirm social identity. Having initially trained as a painter, Ibrahim Mahama here reveals his taste for composition, material and colour. A reminder of a bygone age, vestiges of a time whose effects are constantly reappraised, The Memory of Love leads the viewer on a sensitive journey—of both sight and sound—through space and time. —Claire Staebler, Director of the Frac Pays de la Loire
Ibrahim Mahama (1987, Tamale) earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 2010 and a Master of Science in painting and sculpture in 2013 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.
Mahama established the Red Clay Studio and the Savannah Art Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in 2019 in addition to his artistic practice. Through these two aspirational institutions, he offers productions, exhibitions, and seminars for a diverse audience. Nkrumah Volini, a center for cultural and creative education built in a former grain silo, was established by Mahama in 2021 as an addition to the SCCA and Red Clay Studio.
Mahama has participated in a number of international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2019, documenta in 2017, and the Biennale of Sydney in 2020. In 2019, he also had a significant solo exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. He is now putting together a solo performance at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam in the fall of 2022. He is scheduled to serve as the 35th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts’ creative director in 2023. (Slovenia).
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* Former Secretary General of the United Nations
* “I think I can do business” with Saddam Hussein
* Oversaw the scandal-ridden U.N. Oil-for-Food program
* He passed away on August 18, 2018.
Kofi Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving two five-year terms, from January 1, 1997 to January 1, 2007. Annan replaced departing Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, becoming the first person from a black African nation to serve as Secretary-General of the UN. On December 10, 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee said that Annan “had been pre-eminent in bringing new life to the Organization.”
Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana on April 8, 1938, to Henry Reginald Annan and his wife Victoria. He was born into an elite family in the Akan ethnic group, the largest of Ghana’s indigenous tribes. Annan had two grandfathers and an uncle who were chiefs of tribes deeply involved in Ghana’s gold trading. When his father retired as an export manager for Lever Brothers, he (the father) was elected governor of Ghana’s Asante province.
Annan in 1954 entered the elite Mfantsipim School, a Methodist boarding school, which to this day he credits with teaching him “that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere.” His first political activity was organizing a successful hunger strike by students seeking better cafeteria food there.
Annan began his higher education in 1958, studying for a degree in economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology (which was later renamed the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana, after the Communist-allied founder of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party). With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation, Annan later completed his undergraduate degree in economics from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1961. In 1961 and 1962 he studied economics at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes in Geneva, Switzerland. As a 1971-1972 Sloan Fellow, Annan earned a Master of Science degree in Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He speaks fluent English, French and several African languages.
Annan joined the United Nations system in 1962 as an administrative and budget officer with the World Health Organization (WHO). Promoted rapidly through many different UN offices, he was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations in March 1992 and Under-Secretary-General in March 1993. Later that year, Annan was promoted by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the top post for Peacekeeping.
In 1994 Annan was criticized by Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Dallaire alleged that Annan had been largely unreceptive to calls for UN troops to be sent to quell the genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority by members of the Hutu majority. Dallaire maintained that Annan particularly had failed to respond to calls asking for admittance to a weapons depository, which could have aided in the defense of the threatened Tutsis. Annan’s reputation for being too passive in the face of military conflict would haunt him throughout his career.
By 1995, Annan oversaw 70,000 military and civilian personnel from 77 countries working in 17 peacekeeping operations worldwide, and was credited with successes in Bosnia-Herzegovina and failures in Somalia.
On December 13, 1996, the United Nations Security Council recommended Annan for the position of Secretary-General, to which he was confirmed four days later by a vote of the General Assembly. Annan began his first term as Secretary-General on January 1, 1997.
In his personal life, Annan is married to lawyer-artist-author Nane Annan, the half-niece of anti-Nazi human rights activist and defender of Jews Raoul Wallenberg, who died in Soviet captivity. They are the parents of three children.
One of those children, son Kojo, was employed by the Swiss company Cotecna until approximately 1998, when he left and became a contract consultant. Soon thereafter (in 1998), this company was appointed by the United Nations to administer the flow of $100 billion in the UN-overseen Oil-for-Food program in Iraq.
This program was supposed to provide food and other necessities for impoverished people in Saddam Hussein‘s Iraq, which was then under international embargo for refusing to disarm and to allow unfettered UN weapons inspections in the wake of the first Gulf War. The program was to allow the sale of a certain amount of Iraqi oil, and to ensure that revenues from those sales not be used by Hussein to acquire weapons or enrich himself.
This Oil-for-Food program was ultimately under the direct control of Kofi Annan, who signed off on every aspect of it, including the selection of a company with links to his son to administer it. The program’s Executive Director, Benon Sevan, was a veteran diplomat and close friend hand-picked for the job by Annan.
And Annan, according to his official UN biography, “led the first United Nations team negotiating with Iraq on the sale of oil to fund purchases of humanitarian aid” long before he became Secretary-General. He fully understood the issues involved and the potential for corruption.
In 1998 Annan met with Saddam Hussein to discuss the Iraqi leader’s failure to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions set forth after the Gulf War. During the meeting, Saddam protested the economic sanctions imposed by the UN on Iraq. In turn, Annan criticized Saddam for having refused to permit UN arms inspectors to properly carry out their investigations. In the end, Annan failed in his diplomatic efforts, and on December 16, 1998, the UN ordered all weapons inspectors out of Iraq.
Despite the setback, Hussein and Annan developed a mutual admiration, and Annan managed to gain the respect of the Iraqi leader, who even invited him back to Iraq for a vacation. Of Hussein, Annan said, “Saddam is very calm and polite … But if you mistake his calmness, soft-spokenness for weakness, you’re in trouble.”
Despite Iraq’s continued failure to comply with UN resolutions calling for the return of weapon inspectors, Annan stipulated that the U.S. and its allies should not invade Iraq without the support of the UN. The UN, however, was becoming increasingly irrelevant with each resolution Hussein ignored.
On October 11, 2002, the U.S. Congress granted President Bush the authority to attack Iraq if Hussein did not openly give up his weapons programs. On November 9, 2002, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1441, offering Iraq “a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations” that had been laid out in ten previous resolutions — specifically, to provide “an accurate full, final, and complete disclosure … of all aspects of its programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.” Iraq once again failed to comply, and on March 19, 2003, the U.S.-led coalition launched its invasion.
By 2004 a major scandal began to emerge involving the Oil-for-Food program. Evidence suggests that perhaps $10 billion was diverted or skimmed from the program in various ways. Contracts were signed with companies that did not even exist, or that apparently charged inflated prices and kicked back part of the gain to Saddam Hussein (and perhaps to UN officials also). Many of these companies were based in Russia and France, both of which have veto power on the UN Security Council, and both of which opposed U.S. efforts to remove Hussein from power.
Among the biggest oil beneficiaries of the UN program reportedly was a close political and financial advisor to [French] President Jacques Chirac, Patrick Maugein, CEO of the oil firm SOCO International. Other contracts were with companies that had close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Investigator Claudia Rosett of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the Hudson Institute described the Oil-for-Food program as a “tidal wave of graft.” It was Kofi Annan’s man Sevan, noted Rosett, who “began treating as confidential such vital information as the names of specific contractors, quantities of goods, and prices paid,” thereby deliberately making outside scrutiny of the program difficult.
Annan, who famously said “I think I can do business” with Saddam Hussein, said he wanted an investigation of the Oil-for-Food program, but the United Nations subsequently refused to turn over its documents to independent investigators and auditors. The Swiss company Cotecna and the key French bank BNP Paribas likewise refused to turn over their records. All insisted upon doing their own internal audits with no outside scrutiny.
Whatever money was stolen or misused in the UN Oil-for-Food program was stolen from the poor and needy people of Iraq. Evidence suggests it was Kofi Annan’s lack of proper oversight of the program that — whether through corruption or incompetence or both — may have prevented those people from getting the supplies they needed.
“It is highly possible there has been quite a lot of wrongdoing,” Annan said of the Oil-for-Food scandal. In April of 2004, he finally appointed an independent, high-level inquiry committee into the alleged abuses of the program. In its final report the committee did find fault with the program’s Executive Director, Benon Sevan, but cited insufficient evidence to indict Annan on any illegality.
On September 19, 2006, Annan delivered his farewell address at the UN headquarters in New York, prior to his official retirement on December 31. In that address, Annan pointed to the three major troubles he believes are still affecting humanity: “an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights and the rule of law.”
Annan’s successor as UN Secretary General was Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea, who took over the position on January 1, 2007. At the time of his election to this post, Mr. Ban was the Republic of Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Once retired, Annan returned to his native Ghana. In 2007 he was selected for the MacArthur Foundation Award for International Justice, in honor of his “life work” which “embodies the values of justice and human rights and the eternal hope for a humane, peaceful world that justice makes possible.”
Also in 2007, Annan founded the Global Humanitarian Forum, an international project dedicated to dealing with “the mega-disasters from [the Indian Ocean] tsunami to Katrina to the Asian earthquake.”
In January 2014, Annan traveled to Iran with several members of the so-called “Elders” — an independent group, founded by Nelson Mandela, of global leaders “who work together for peace and human rights.” One of the Elders who accompanied Annan on the trip was Desmond Tutu. According to Iranian media, the trip began “with a visit to the mausoleum of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini” where the former UN Secretary General “praised the role of the Islamic Republic, especially in the area of peace.” Fars News described Annan as “paying tribute” to the Ayatollah.
In Ghana, the Asante King has given Kofi Annan a title usually reserved for kings — Busumuru, which means “wise advisor.”
He passed away on August 18, 2018.
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Date: Monday, April 23, 2018
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Grand Ballroom, Baker Pattillo Student Center, SFA Campus
Jennifer Arnold M.D. was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and grew up in Orlando. She completed bachelor's degrees in biology and psychology at the University of Miami.
Arnold earned her medical degree in 2000 from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She later attended a Pediatric Residency Program at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
During her fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine, Arnold received a Master of Science in medical education from the University of Pittsburgh. She is board certified in neonatal medicine and serves as the medical director for the Simulation Center at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg.
Arnold has been involved in simulation education, patient safety and research endeavors for the past 10 years. She was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Safar Center for Resuscitative Medicine from July 2006-07.
Her simulation areas of interest include use of simulation for evaluating new clinical spaces, team training, improving quality and patient safety, improving home care and skills for primary caregivers of medically complex children, and developing educational curricula for various departments throughout the hospital.
Arnold has spoken nationally and internationally on healthcare simulation, and she has been a speaker on topics about overcoming obstacles. She is an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and the International Pediatric Simulation Society.
She serves on the executive boards for the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research and Education, and OpHeart, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving care of children with complex congenital heart disease. She is a national ambassador for Speak Now for Kids through the Children's Hospital Association.
Arnold has a rare type of dwarfism, Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, Strudwick type, which has resulted in more than 30 surgeries. She is a four-year cancer survivor.
Arnold, her husband Bill, and their children, Will and Zoey, are featured on The Learning Channel's docu-drama, "The Little Couple," which follows the family's personal and professional lives.
Date: Monday, April 24, 2017
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Grand Ballroom, Baker Pattillo Student Center, SFA Campus
Douglas Brinkley, whom CNN has declared, "a man who knows more about the presidency than any human being alive," will headline the 2017 installment of the Archie McDonald Speaker Series at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Brinkley is an American historian, best-selling author, CNN presidential historian and history professor at Rice University in Houston. He is a sought-after commentator on U.S. presidential history and has authored books on Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
The speaker series event is free and scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 24, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Grand Ballroom on the SFA campus. A private reception for 100 guests will be held prior to the main event. Private reception tickets can be purchased by contacting April Smith, SFA associate director of development, at (936) 468-5406.
"We are pleased to have such a prestigious presidential scholar and historian join us for our 2017 Archie McDonald Speaker Series," said Dr. Steve Bullard, SFA provost and vice president for academic affairs. "Douglas' work has allowed for an inside look into the lives of some of America's greatest leaders. His contributions are indispensable to the study of history."
Six of Brinkley's books have been selected as New York Times "Notable Books of the Year," and a number of his most recent publications have become New York Times best sellers. His most recent book, "The Nixon Tapes," published in July 2014, discusses fascinating aspects of Nixon's presidency, including the year Nixon opened relations with China, negotiated the SALT I Arms Agreement with the Soviet Union and won a landslide re-election victory.
Brinkley completed his bachelor's degree at Ohio State University and received his doctoral degree in U.S. diplomatic history from Georgetown University in 1989. He then spent a year each at the U.S. Naval Academy and Princeton University teaching history.
Before joining the Rice University faculty, Brinkley served as professor of history and director of the Roosevelt Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. From 1994 until 2005, he was the Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans.
On the literary front, Brinkley has edited Jack Kerouac's diaries, Woody Guthrie's novel, Hunter S. Thompson's letters and Theodore Dreiser's travelogue. His work on civil rights includes "Rosa Parks," published in 2000, and the forthcoming "Portable Civil Rights Reader."
Brinkley has achieved notable status among presidential historians and received a number of recognitions for his work, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for two of his publications. He also was awarded the BusinessWeek Book of the Year Award and was named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. In February, Brinkley won a Grammy Award in the Large Jazz Ensemble category for producing the Ted Nash Big Band album "President Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom."
Brinkley is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. He also is a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Club. The Chicago Tribune has deemed him "America's new past master."
Brinkley lives in Austin and Houston with his wife and three children.
Date: Monday, April 11, 2016
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Grand Ballroom, Baker Pattillo Student Center, SFA Campus
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Gene Stallings, whose name is synonymous with college football, will headline the 2016 installment of the Archie McDonald Speaker Series at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Stallings, who served as the head football coach for the University of Alabama from 1990-97, had an impressive record, including the team's 1992 perfect 13-0 season that culminated with a win in the Sugar Bowl and first Bowl Coalition national championship. Stallings was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2010.
The speaker series event is free and scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, in the Grand Ballroom of the Baker Pattillo Student Center on the SFA campus. A private reception for 100 guests will be held prior to the main event. Private reception tickets can be purchased by contacting April Smith at (936) 468-5406.
"We are pleased to have one of football's most respected coaches join us for our 2016 Archie McDonald Speaker Series," said Dr. Steve Bullard, SFA interim provost and vice president for academic affairs. "Gene's determination to be the best instilled a championship attitude in the players he coached. His legacy of leadership continues in the generations of athletes he mentored."
Like previous guests of the series, Stallings will be recognized at the event with the university's Lifetime Cultural Achievement Award.
Stallings grew up in Paris, Texas, where he played high school football. In 1954, he was recruited by Texas A&M University, where he played for Paul "Bear" Bryant and was one of the legendary "Junction Boys," a name given to Aggie football players who endured Bryant's 10-day summer camp in Junction, Texas, that began Sept. 1, 1954. He graduated from the university in 1957.
In 1958, Stallings served as a defensive assistant at the University of Alabama. He was on staff for two of Alabama's national championship seasons, in 1961 and 1964.
Shortly after helping Alabama win the 1964 national title, Stallings was named head coach of his alma mater, Texas A&M University, at the age of 29. He coached the Aggies for seven seasons.
In 1972, Stallings joined the staff of the Dallas Cowboys as Tom Landry's secondary coach. He remained with the Cowboys for 14 seasons and helped them win Super Bowl XII.
The St. Louis Cardinals named Stallings as its head coach in 1986, and he remained there through the franchise's move to Arizona. He left the organization in 1989 and returned to the University of Alabama, where he was named head coach in 1990 and coached until 1997.
During his tenure at the University of Alabama, Stallings coached his team to unprecedented success, including four appearances in the Southeast Conference Championship Game, and leading the Crimson Tide to the national championship in 1992.
Stallings is cowriter of the book "Another Season: A Coach's Story of Raising an Exceptional Son," which describes his family's relationship with son John Mark Stallings, who was born with Down syndrome and died in 2008 at the age of 46 due to a congenital heart condition.
Additionally, Stallings serves on many boards, including President George W. Bush's Commission on Intellectual Disability, Tandy Corporation, People's National Bank of Paris, Paris Regional Medical Center, Disability Resources, the Texas Rangers Law Enforcement Association, the Great Southern Wood Corporation and the Boys and Girls Club of Paris, Texas.
The speaker series was created in 2010 by SFA's College of Liberal and Applied Arts. Dr. Brian Murphy, dean of the college, designed the event to honor and preserve the legacy of Dr. Archie McDonald as a distinguished scholar, educator and community commentator. In the tradition of McDonald's writings and oral presentations, a prominent national figure is hosted annually at SFA to discuss contemporary cultural issues.
McDonald taught history at SFA for 48 years and served as director of the East Texas Historical Association and editor of the association's journal for 37 years. He was a past president of the Texas State Historical Association, past vice chair of the Texas Historical Commission and author/editor of more than 20 books on historical topics. Along with teaching, he was a commentator on Red River Radio in Shreveport, and wrote a weekly column for area newspapers. He passed away on Aug. 16, 2012.
McDonald participated in the first three events in the speaker series, interviewing former heavyweight champion boxer and iconic businessman George Foreman, Apollo 12 astronaut and professional artist Alan Bean, and 61st U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III. Additional guests have included former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Grammy award-winning singer, composer and actor Lyle Lovett and Olympic All-Around Gold Medal winner in gymnastics Mary Lou Retton.
SFA's Student Government Association sponsors the speaker series, which is free and open to the public. Passes may be obtained at the Involvement Center on the first floor of the Baker Pattillo Student Center or at the downtown Visitors Bureau. For more information, call (936) 468-5406.
Date: Monday, April 13, 2015
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Grand Ballroom, Baker Pattillo Student Center, SFA Campus
Mary Lou Retton catapulted to international fame by winning the All-Around Gold Medal in women's gymnastics at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, becoming the first American woman ever to win a gold medal in gymnastics. She won silver medals for team and vault, and bronze medals for uneven bars and floor exercise. Her five medals were the most won by any athlete at the 1984 Olympics.
Retton is the only woman to win three American Cups (1983-85), the only American to win Japan's prestigious Chunichi Cup (1983), two U.S. Gymnastics Federation American Classics (1983-84) and the All-Around title at both the 1984 National Championships and Olympic Trials.
Retton was named the 1984 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year and the 1984 Associated Press Amateur Athlete of the Year. She was the first woman to appear on the Wheaties cereal box and the Gallup Poll included Retton as one of America's Top 10 Most Admired public figures. She retired from competitive gymnastics in 1986.
In addition to serving as a commentator for NBC at the 1988 Olympic Games, Retton wrote a daily column for USA Today during the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Retton served as an on-air reporter for Gannett Broadcasting's NBC affiliates, the largest NBC affiliate group in the United States. She also co-hosted the weekly television series "Road to Olympic Gold."
Retton was selected a member of the official White House delegation representing the president at both the 1992 and 1998 Olympic Games. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton presented Retton with The Flo Hyman Award in 1995, commending Retton's spirit, dignity and commitment to excellence. The U.S. Olympic Committee established the annual Mary Lou Retton Award for athletic excellence, and Retton was first gymnast and the youngest inductee into the committee's Olympic Hall of Fame.
Today, Retton is in great demand as a motivational speaker and travels the world as a "Fitness Ambassador" promoting the benefits of proper nutrition and regular exercise. She serves as national chairperson and sits on the Board of Governors of the Children's Miracle Network.
The author of "Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Accomplished, More Satisfying Life," Retton has appeared in the motion pictures "Scrooged" and "Naked Gun 33 1/3." She has made appearances on numerous television shows, including "Guiding Light," "Knots Landing," and "Dream On," and guest starred in one of the highest-rated episodes of the series "Baywatch."
Retton is married to Shannon Kelley, and they have four daughters: Shayla Rae, McKenna Lane, Skyla Brae and Emma Jean.
Date: April 10, 2014
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Grand Ballroom, Baker Pattillo Student Center, SFA Campus
Lyle Lovett is a Grammy Award-winning singer, composer and actor. He has broadened the definition of Americana music in a career that spans 14 albums and more than four million records sold. Coupled with his gift for storytelling, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues in a manner that defies convention and breaks down barriers.
Lovett has won four Grammy Awards: Best Country Album (1996 for "The Road to Ensenada"); Best Country Duo/Group with Vocal (1994 for "Blues For Dixie" with Asleep at the Wheel); Best Pop Vocal Collaboration (1994 for "Funny How Time Slips Away" with Al Green); and Best Country Male Vocal (1989 for "Lyle Lovett and His Large Band." He received the Americana Music Association's inaugural Trailblazer Award and the Texas Medal of Arts Award, and he was named the 2011 Texas State Musician. Lovett has celebrated more than two decades of acclaimed work and garnered seven top-10 albums on the Billboard charts. Beginning with his 1986 self-titled debut and continuing through his most recent projects, Lovett has taken one artistic chance after another while crafting songs that resonate with fans and critics across the globe.
For the last few years, Lovett has been alternating Large Band tours with acoustic shows teaming him with John Hiatt, as well as larger songwriter circles also featuring long-time friends Hiatt, Guy Clark and Joe Ely.
Lovett has appeared in 13 feature films, which include the Robert Altman-directed movies "The Player" (1992), "Short Cuts" (1993) and "Cookie's Fortune" (1999), and he scored "Dr. T & the Women" (2000). He also has acted in "The Opposite of Sex" (1998), "The New Guy" (2002), "Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story" (2007) and, most recently, "When Angels Sing" (2011). Among his television acting credits are "Mad About You," "Dharma & Greg," "Brothers & Sisters" and "Castle." In theatre, he participated in three Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles productions, including "Much Ado About Nothing" (2010) opposite Helen Hunt.
Lovett resides in North Harris County, Texas in the farming community of Klein, named after his great-great-grandfather and where he was raised. Lovett began his music career while attending Texas A&M University in the late '70s, where he graduated with Bachelors' degrees in journalism and German.
Despite the departures to stage, television and screen, Lovett always returns to the music world. His stories and songs remain a powerful reminder that he possesses one of the most distinctive artistic voices today.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has been a passionate and commanding force in American politics.
The first - and only - woman elected to represent Texas in the United States Senate, Hutchison was one of only six female senators when she was elected in a special election in 1993. She forged a path for other women to make their mark in the political world and, when she retired, was the Senate's highest-ranking Republican female. Forbes magazine has ranked her among the world's 100 most powerful women.
Hutchison was elected to a full six-year term in 1994. She earned a second term in 2000, when she was elected with more votes than any other statewide candidate in Texas history. In 2006, she was again re-elected by an overwhelming margin.
Hutchison served in the Senate leadership, having first been elected vice chair of the Republican Conference and later elected chair of the Republican Policy Committee. She was most recently the Ranking Member on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science. She has been chair of the Military Construction Appropriations Sub-Committee and served on the Defense Appropriations Sub-Committee.
One of the Senate's strongest advocates for American leadership in science, technology, and education, Hutchison co-sponsored the 2007 America Competes Act in response to the National Academy of Sciences report on competitiveness. She was instrumental in establishing The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, which brings together National Academy members and Nobel laureates to foster more academic research in Texas.
In 2012, Hutchison was unanimously elected chair of the Board of Visitors at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She previously served as chair of the board from 1998 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2009 before being reelected to serve again this year.
Hutchison grew up in La Marque and graduated from the University of Texas and the university's School of Law. She was twice elected to the Texas House of Representatives. In 1990, she was elected Texas State Treasurer.
In June 2000, Hutchison and several colleagues coauthored "Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate," and in 2004, she released her first book, a bestseller, "American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country." Hutchison published her second bestseller, "Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers," in October 2007, and her newest book, "Unflinching Courage," will be released in April 2013.
The 2013 installment of the Archie McDonald Speaker Series will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11 in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Grand Ballroom.
Book signing to follow the interview.
James A. Baker, III has served in senior government positions under three U.S. presidents. He served as the nation's 61st secretary of state from January 1989 through August 1992 under President George Bush. During his tenure at the State Department, Baker traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era.
Baker served as the 67th secretary of the treasury from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. As treasury secretary, he was also chairman of the President's Economic Policy Council. From 1981 to 1985, he served as White House chief of staff to President Reagan. Baker's record of public service began in 1975 as under secretary of commerce to President Gerald Ford. It concluded with his service as White House chief of staff and senior counselor to President Bush from August 1992 to January 1993.
Long active in American presidential politics, Baker led presidential campaigns for Presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush over the course of five consecutive presidential elections from 1976 to 1992.
A native Houstonian, Baker graduated from Princeton University in 1952. After two years of active duty as a lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps, he entered The University of Texas School of Law at Austin. He received his J.D. with honors in 1957 and practiced law with the Houston firm of Andrews and Kurth from 1957 to 1975.
Baker's memoir "Work Hard, Study . . . and Keep Out of Politics! Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life" was published in October 2006.
Baker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and has been the recipient of many other awards for distinguished public service, including Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, The American Institute for Public Service's Jefferson Award, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Award, The Hans J. Morgenthau Award, The George F. Kennan Award, the Department of the Treasury's Alexander Hamilton Award the Department of State's Distinguished Service Award, and numerous honorary academic degrees.
Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts. He is honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 1997 to 2004, Baker served as the personal envoy of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in seeking a political solution to the conflict over Western Sahara. In 2003, Baker was appointed special presidential envoy for President George W. Bush on the issue of Iraqi debt. In 2005, he was co-chair, with former President Jimmy Carter, of the Commission on Federal Election Reform. In 2006, Baker and former U.S. Representative Lee H. Hamilton served as the co-chairs of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan blue-ribbon panel on Iraq. In 2008, Baker and the late Secretary of State Warren Christopher served as co-chairs of the National War Powers Commission.
Mr. Baker was born in Houston in 1930. He and his wife, the former Susan Garrett, currently reside in Houston, and they have eight children and 18 grandchildren.
Alan Bean was born in Wheeler, Texas, in 1932. He graduated from high school in Ft. Worth in 1950 where in his last year he was selected for a NROTC scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin. Five years later he was awarded a bachelor's in science and was commissioned Ensign, United States Navy.
In 1956 he completed flight training and was awarded Naval Aviator wings. He was assigned to Jet Attack Squadron 44 in Jacksonville, Fla. Four years later he was selected for the Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland. When his schooling was completed, Bean was assigned to the Service Test Division. Bean spent three exciting years as a test pilot, flying almost every type of plane in the Navy service.
During this time, his latent interest in art strengthened and he enrolled in night classes in drawing and watercolor at nearby St. Mary's College. Bean was testing high performance airplanes in the day time, and drawing and painting nights and weekends.
In 1963 Bean was selected as an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 12, man's second Lunar Landing. Bean became the fourth man to set foot on the moon.
In 1973 Bean again flew in space as Commander of Skylab Mission II. This mission lasted 59 days and traveled 24.4 million miles. His crew accomplished 150 percent of their pre-mission goals, a record unequaled, even today.
After Skylab, Bean was selected as backup spacecraft commander for the joint American-Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Bean then served as Chief of Operations and Training and Acting Chief Astronaut until the first flight of the space shuttle.
Throughout Bean's career as an astronaut, when not in specific mission training, he took courses at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Glassell School of Art and from a number of talented fine artists in the Houston area at nights and on the weekends.
It was during this period that many of his fellow astronauts began asking, "Alan, why do you keep painting the same subjects that all earth bound artists have been painting since painting was invented? You are the first artist to visit another world, a world completely different from planet Earth, and you could be the first to paint our experiences there. You could tell our story, what humans do when we first explore distant worlds and share that experience with all of us."
They were right on. Although Bean was training to command an early space shuttle mission, he realized that there were young men and women in training that could fly those as well or better than he could, but he was the only one of the 12 humans that walked on the moon and was able to celebrate the great adventure that was Apollo in fine art. So, in 1981, Bean resigned as a NASA astronaut to devote his time and energy to painting.
While at NASA, Bean helped establish 11 world records in spaced and astronautics. He was awarded two NASA Distinguished Service Medals and two Navy Distinguished Service Medals. He has received the Robert J. Collier Trophy, Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal and numerous other national and internationals honors. He is listed in all major Who's Who. He has been on the cover of Time and Life magazines, appeared on many television talk shows and was the subject of a prime-time program on the Public Broadcast System. Bean has flown 27 types of military aircraft as well as many civilian airplanes and has logged 7,145 hours of flight time.
For the last 28 years, Bean has been a full-time professional artist. The transition has not been without a lot of thought and effort. Bean vowed when he resigned from NASA that he would not be an astronaut that paints, but rather become "an artist that used to be an astronaut." And so he has, continuing his art education at the Museum of Fine Arts Glassell School, private study with talented professional artists in Houston, and taken a variety of selected painting workshops throughout the U.S.
Over the years his work has evolved into a mixture of painting and sculpture, textured with lunar tools, sprinkled with bits of his Apollo 12 spacecraft and the emblems and flag from the spacesuit he wore on the moon. These emblems, awarded to Bean by NASA, even today remain dusted with a touch of moondust from the Ocean of Storms.
Bean has had a number of exhibitions during his long career, the most recent at the Butler Museum of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio. At that show he was awarded the prestigious Butler Gold Medal For Life Achievement in Art.
"I want to record, in fine art, paintings that will tell future generations of humankind's first exploration of another world. We are at a pivotal point in history as we move off this planet. It's going to take a while, and it may be decades until other artists gaze across the surface of the Moon and lift their eyes up toward the distant Earth, that blue marble in the sky, but that day will come."
It may be a lifetime or more before the first artist walks on the Red Planet and worlds beyond, but this, too, shall come to pass. The body and nature of paintings from other worlds will grow beyond our ability to imagine, but these paintings Alan Bean is creating now, will forever be the very first.
George Edward Foreman Sr. was born to JD and Nancy Foreman on January 10, 1949, in the town of Marshall, Texas. An impoverished youth, Foreman often bullied younger children and didn't like getting up early for school. Foreman became a mugger and brawler on the hard streets of Houston's 5th ward by age 15.
George Foreman, from Thug to Boxer
George attended the Lyndon Johnson's Job Corps program, which helped troubled kids. Foreman traveled to California, where he met Job Corps counselor and boxing coach Doc Broaddus, who encouraged Foreman to become a fighter.
After only 24 amateur fights, the culmination of his amateur boxing career came at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where he won a gold medal. George got extra attention when he brandished an American flag after his win; "I wanted everyone in the world to know I was an American," he later explained, "and proud of the opportunity that I was given to do what I had done."
Foreman Becomes Heavyweight Champ
In 1969, Foreman turned professional. Within two years, Foreman was ranked the No. 1 challenger by the WBA and WBC; by 1972, Foreman's impressive record was 37 wins (most by knockout) and no losses.
Foreman became the heavyweight champion on January 22, 1973 after knocking out the great Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica. An unprecedented TV audience watched Foreman become the champ - the fight was HBO Boxing's first-ever broadcast.
In the summer of 1974 George Foreman lost his title in what is considered one of the greatest fights of all time, the much-hyped "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire. After taking 1975 off, Foreman returned to boxing, winning a number of fights before losing by decision to Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico in 1977. It was in his dressing room after the fight that Foreman had a religious experience; he then gave up boxing and became a born-again Christian.
George was ordained a minister and began preaching in his hometown of Houston, Texas. In 1984, he founded the George Foreman Youth and Community Center, a non-denominational place for kids who need direction like he once did. In order to continue his positive work in the community, in 1987 Foreman decided to return to boxing!
Many people doubted George's ability, but he proved his detractors wrong when he kept winning fights into his 40s; in 1991 he had a shot at the title, but lost to champ Evander Holyfield by decision.
The loss made George stronger! In 1994 Foreman took on the new champ Michael Moorer, and knocked him out in the 10th round; Foreman became, at 44, the oldest fighter ever to win the heavyweight crown.
George Foreman & the Lean Mean Grilling Machine
By the time Foreman retired from boxing (again) in 1999, he was well on his way to a second career as a businessman. Since the early 1990s, Foreman had discovered his talent for salesmanship, and by the end of the decade, he was making millions off of infomercials marketing the George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine which has sold over 100 million units to date.
George has now successfully launched a line of environmentally safe cleaning products, an exclusive line of personal care products, a health shake called George Foreman's Life Shake, a prescription shoe for diabetics to prevent amputations, a restaurant franchise called UFood Grille, 10 books, and the list continues to build.
When not promoting his products, George tends to his ministry and charitable work, including most recently his "Knock-Out Pediatric Cancer" initiative. He spends free time with his family or with his horses on his ranch in Marshall.
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The Kwame Nkrumah University (KNUST), arguably one of the best universities on the African continent is a Ghanaian public university primarily focused on science education. The school is situated in Kumasi, the capital town of the Ashanti Region in Ghana.
The university was birthed out of an effort towards modernization by the then King of the Ashanti Region, Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh the first. His younger brother, Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh took up the mantle to see to the success of this vision.
Thus, in 1949, the dream of the Prempehs became a reality when building started on what was to be called the Kumasi College of Technology.
The University was formerly known as the Kumasi College of Technology and offered admission to students with the passion to study engineering in 1951 and was affiliated to the University of London
The School officially launched out on 22 January, 1952; starting off with about 200 teacher training students who had been transferred from Achimota.
Following this, the School of Engineering and the Department of Commerce were established. Other departments like the Agriculture department, pharmacy department and a General studies department were then established to cater for students interested in these disciplines. In 1957 there was an inauguration of the School of Architecture, Town Planning and Building.
As a result of the surge in the student population, the school decided to step up and officially become a purely science and technology institution. This drive pushed the management to transfer students outside the discipline of science to neighbouring institutions in a bid to mainly focus on the science students.
A proposal to make the college an independent university was submitted; and under the supervision of R.P Baffour, this dream became a reality on the August 22, 1961. The college was transformed into a university, and was named in an honour of the first president of Ghana – His Excellency Dr. Kwame Nkrumah; Thus the name Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
The university, overtime has evolved to become one of the best universities across the world with the latest Times Higher Education impact ranking 2022 placing the school as number one in Africa and 14th worldwide.
KNUST has shown excellence and served as a pacesetter for a number of honorary awards. The university was the first in West Africa to have won the Pan African University Debate for three consecutive times (2018, 2019, and 2020). The school also boasts of being the first university in Ghana to win the Ghana national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Some notable alumni of the school include, former vice president of Ghana, Aliu Mahama; Former UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan; Edward Kwame Wiredu, former Chief of Staff; Amma Darko, Chris Attoh, Honourable Yaw Osafo Marfo, amng many others.
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Named after an anchor of peace, the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), celebrates His Excellency Dr. Kofi Annan on his 80th birthday!
Describing himself as being atribal in a tribal world, Dr Kofi Annan was born on 8th April, 1938 in Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana. He attended the Mfantsipim School, in Cape Coast from 1954 to 1957. Whiles at Mfantsipim, he learned that “suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere.” This lesson followed him throughout his life.
After he graduated from Mfantsipim, Dr Kofi Annan attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He received a Ford Foundation grant, which allowed him to study Economics at the Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the year 1961.
Though Economics was his field of study in Macalester College, he still nurtured the desire to become a diplomat and skilled in international relations. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland after Macalester, and attended the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, where he completed his DEA degree. He then took a break from his education to work as a budget officer for the World Health Organization.
After a few years, he studied in the Sloan Fellows program, and then he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Annan was appointed Secretary-General by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in December 1996, the topmost position of the UN. He began serving his four-year term of office on January 1, 1997.
Dr. Annan’s code of soft-spoken diplomacy was given a boost by the outcome of his talks with Saddam Hussein in 1998. UN observers waited to see how additional crises will be handled by the gentle but determined man from Ghana.
In the summer of 2001, the United Nations unanimously appointed Kofi Annan to his second five-year term as Secretary-General. On October 12, 2001, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the United Nations and Dr Kofi Annan. The Nobel citation pointed out that Kofi Annan had brought new life to the peacekeeping organization, highlighted the United Nations’ fight for civil rights, and boldly taken on the new challenges of terrorism and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, KAIPTC joins all Ghanaians, Africans and the world to celebrate a great icon of world peace! Happy birthday Sir! We wish you more years of great grace and strength as you continue your excellent work for our world.
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Annan’s expertise extends to private legal practice in Ghana, where he is an esteemed Associate at the esteemed law firm of MINKA-PREMO, OSEI-BONSU, BRUCE-CATHKINE & PARTNERS. With a profound understanding of various legal domains, he specializes in Intellectual Property Law, Company Law, Commercial Law Practice, and Oil and Gas Law. His extensive knowledge and experience in these areas make him an invaluable asset to our firm.
Annan’s dedication to legal research is evident through his authorship of the groundbreaking publication, ‘Virtual Hearing the New Paradigm in International Arbitration: Is Ghana Prepared to Adopt the Practice Post Covid?’ (2022). This seminal work was presented at the inaugural KNUST Faculty of Law International Conference on Law, Science, and Technology, further highlighting his commitment to staying at the forefront of legal advancements.
Kofi is an ardent writer who is also a Co-Author of the book “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW OF GHANA” published in 2023, by “Intelligent Quotient” (IQ) Media
With a meticulous approach to his work and an unwavering commitment to excellence, Kofi Annan is a remarkable legal professional who consistently delivers exceptional results. His passion for the law, combined with his extensive expertise, ensures that he provides comprehensive and effective legal solutions to our esteemed clients.
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Kofi Atta Annan ( born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the corecipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as we
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Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in the Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's Ashanti and Fante aristocratic families; both of their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs.
In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or in relation to how many children precede them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday. Annan has said his surname rhymes with "cannon" in English.
From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school taught him "that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere". In 1957, the year Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast gained independence from Britain and began using the name "Ghana".
In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, 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 MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a master's degree in management.
Annan is fluent in English, French, Akan, some Kru languages and other African languages.
In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations (UN). From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana. In 1980 he became the head of personnel for the office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. In 1983 he became the director of administrative management services of the UN Secretariat in New York. In the late 1980s, Annan was appointed as an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN in three consecutive positions: Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator (1987–1990); Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller (1990–1992); and Peacekeeping Operations (March 1993 – December 1996).
When Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali established the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in 1992, Annan was appointed to the new department as Deputy to then Under Secretary-General Marrick Goulding. Annan was subsequently appointed to succeed Goulding and assumed the office of USG DPKO in March 1993. He was therefore Head of peacekeeping during the battle of Somalia and the resulting collapse of the UNOSOM II peacekeeping mission, and during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.
In 2003 Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, claimed that Annan was overly passive in his response to the imminent genocide. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003), General Dallaire asserted that Annan held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict, and from providing more logistical and material support. Dallaire claimed that Annan failed to provide responses to his repeated faxes asking for access to a weapons depository; such weapons could have helped Dallaire defend the endangered Tutsis. In 2004, ten years after the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan said, "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support."
In his book Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Annan again argued that DPKO could have made better use of the media to raise awareness of the violence in Rwanda and put pressure on governments to provide the troops necessary for an intervention. Annan explained that the events in Somalia and the collapse of the UNOSOM II mission fostered a hesitation amongst UN Member states to approve robust peacekeeping operations. As a result, when the UNAMIR mission was approved just days after the battle, the resulting force lacked the troop levels, resources and mandate to operate effectively.
Annan served as Under-Secretary-General from March 1994 to October 1995. He was appointed a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia, serving for five months before returning to his duties as Under-Secretary-General in April 1996.
Appointment
On 13 December 1996, the UN Security Council recommended Annan to replace the previous Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, whose second term faced the veto of the United States. Confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly, he started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997. He was reelected for a second term in 2001, which was unusual since this meant a third consecutive term for Africa. The Asian states did not protest, although it should have been their turn, because Annan was so popular among the UN member states and UN staff.
Recommendations for UN reform
Soon after taking office in 1997, Annan released two reports on management reform. On 17 March 1997, the report Management and Organisational Measures (A/51/829) introduced new management mechanisms through the establishment of a cabinet-style body to assist him and be grouping the UN's activities in accordance with four core missions. A comprehensive reform agenda was issued on 14 July 1997 entitled Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform (A/51/950). Key proposals included the introduction of strategic management to strengthen unity of purpose, the establishment of the position of Deputy Secretary-General, a 10-percent reduction in posts, a reduction in administrative costs, the consolidation of the UN at the country level, and reaching out to civil society and the private sector as partners. Annan also proposed to hold a Millennium Summit in 2000. After years of research, Annan presented a progress report, In Larger Freedom, to the UN General Assembly, on 21 March 2005. Annan recommended Security Council expansion and a host of other UN reforms.
On 31 January 2006, Kofi Annan outlined his vision for a comprehensive and extensive reform of the UN in a policy speech to the United Nations Association UK. The speech, delivered at Central Hall, Westminster, also marked the 60th Anniversary of the first meetings of the General Assembly and Security Council.
On 7 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his proposals for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations Secretariat. The reform report is entitled Investing in the United Nations, For a Stronger Organization Worldwide.
On 30 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his analysis and recommendations for updating the entire work programme of the United Nations Secretariat. The reform report is entitled: Mandating and Delivering: Analysis and Recommendations to Facilitate the Review of Mandates.
Regarding the UN Human Rights Council, Annan has said "declining credibility" had "cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system. Unless we re-make our human rights machinery, we may be unable to renew public confidence in the United Nations itself." However, he does believe that, despite its flaws, the council can do good.
In March 2000, Annan appointed the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations to assess the shortcomings of the then existing system and to make specific and realistic recommendations for change. The panel was composed of individuals experienced in conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. The report it produced, which became known as the Brahimi Report, after Chair of the Panel Lakhdar Brahimi, called for:
renewed political commitment on the part of Member States;
significant institutional change;
increased financial support.
The Panel further noted that in order to be effective, UN peacekeeping operations must be properly resourced and equipped, and operate under clear, credible and achievable mandates. In a letter transmitting the report to the General Assembly and Security Council, Annan stated that the Panel's recommendations were "essential to make the United Nations truly credible as a force for peace." Later that same year, the Security Council adopted several provisions relating to peacekeeping following the report, in Resolution 1327.
Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, ahead of the Millennium Summit, Annan issued a report entitled "We the peoples: the role of the United Nations in the 21st century". The report argued that the significant geopolitical evolutions and increased globalization experienced over the previous 50 years required the United Nations to reassess and transform the way it operates. The report called for member states to "put people at the centre of everything we do. No calling is more noble, and no responsibility greater, than that of enabling men, women and children, in cities and villages around the world, to make their lives better."
In the final chapter of the report, Annan drew on the findings of earlier work by the UN, The World Bank, the IMF and OECD, and identified priority areas on which the UN should focus in order to "free our fellow men and women from the abject and dehumanizing poverty in which more than 1 billion of them are currently confined" These served as the basis for the subsequent Millennium Development Goals, which were developed with additional input from the Millennium Forum, a group comprised 1,000 non-governmental and civil society organizations from more than 100 countries .
At the end of the Millennium Summit, delegates adopted the Millennium Declaration, in which they committed to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and set out a series of time-bound targets which subsequently become known as the Millennium Development Goals.
United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS)
Within the "We the Peoples" document, Annan suggested the establishment of a United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), a consortium of high-tech volunteer corps, including NetCorps Canada and Net Corps America, which United Nations Volunteers would coordinate. In the Report of the high-level panel of experts on information and communication technology (22 May 2000) suggesting a UN ICT Task Force, the panel welcomed the establishment of UNITeS, and made suggestions on its configuration and implementation strategy, including that ICT4D volunteering opportunities make mobilizing "national human resources" (local ICT experts) within developing countries a priority, for both men and women. The initiative was launched at the United Nations Volunteers and was active from February 2001 to February 2005. Initiative staff and volunteers participated in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva in December 2003.
The United Nations Global Compact
In an address to The World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, then Secretary General Annan argued that the "goals of the United Nations and those of business can, indeed, be mutually supportive" and proposed that the private sector and the United Nations initiate "a global compact of shared values and principles, which will give a human face to the global market".
On 26 July 2000, the United Nations Global Compact was officially launched at UN headquarters in New York. It is a principle-based framework for businesses which aims to "Catalyse actions in support of broader UN goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)". The Compact established ten core principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption, and under the Compact, companies commit to the ten principles and are brought together with UN agencies, labour groups and civil society to effectively implement them.
Establishment of The Global Fund
Towards the end of the 1990s, increased awareness of the destructive potential of epidemics such as HIV/AIDS pushed public health issues to the top of the global development agenda. In April 2001, Annan issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Stating it was a "personal priority", Annan proposed the establishment of a Global AIDS and Health Fund, "dedicated to the battle against HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases" to stimulate the increased international spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis. In June of that year, the General Assembly of the United Nations committed to the creation of such a fund during a special session on AIDS, and the permanent secretariat of the Global Fund was subsequently established in June 2002.
Responsibility to Protect
Following the failure of Annan and the International Community to intervene in the genocide in Rwanda and in Srebrenica, Annan asked whether the international community had an obligation in such situations to intervene to protect civilian populations. In a speech to the General Assembly in September 1999 "to address the prospects for human security and intervention in the next century," Annan argued that individual sovereignty- the protections afforded by the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the UN, were being strengthened, while the notion of state sovereignty was being redefined by globalization and international cooperation. As a result, the UN and its Member States had to re-consider their willingness to act to prevent conflict and civilian suffering.
In September 2001 the Canadian government established an ad-hoc committee to address this balance between State sovereignty and humanitarian intervention. The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty published its final report in 2001, which focused not on the right of states to intervene but on a responsibility to protect populations at risk. The report moved beyond the question of military intervention, arguing that a range of diplomatic and humanitarian actions could also be utilized to protect civilian populations.
In 2005, Annan included the doctrine of "Responsibility to Protect" in his report Larger Freedom. when that report was endorsed by the UN General Assembly, it amounted to the first formal endorsement by UN Member States of the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect.
Iraq
In the years after 1998 when UNSCOM was kicked out by the government of Saddam Hussein and during the Iraq disarmament crisis, in which the United States blamed UNSCOM and former IAEA director Hans Blix for failing to properly disarm Iraq, Scott Ritter the former UNSCOM chief weapons inspector, blamed Annan for being slow and ineffective in enforcing Security Council resolutions on Iraq and was overtly submissive to the demands of the Clinton administration for regime removal and inspection of sites, often Presidential palaces, that were not mandated in any resolution and were of questionable intelligence value, which severely hampered UNSCOM's ability to cooperate with the Iraqi government and contributed to their expulsion from the country. Ritter also claimed that Annan regularly interfered with the work of the inspectors and diluted the chain of command by trying to micromanage all of the activities of UNSCOM, which caused intelligence processing (and the resulting inspections) to be backed up and caused confusion with the Iraqis as to who was in charge and as a result, they generally refused to take orders from Ritter or Rolf Ekéus without explicit approval from Annan, which could have taken days, if not weeks. He later believed that Annan was oblivious to the fact the Iraqis took advantage of this in order to delay inspections. He claimed that on one occasion, Annan refused to implement a no-notice inspection of the SSO headquarters and instead tried to negotiate access, but the negotiation ended up taking nearly six weeks, giving the Iraqis more than enough time to clean out the site.
During the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without the support of the United Nations. In a September 2004 interview on the BBC, when questioned about the legal authority for the invasion, Annan said he believed it was not in conformity with the UN charter and was illegal.
Other diplomatic activities
In 1998, Annan was deeply involved in supporting the transition from military to civilian rule in Nigeria. The following year, he supported the efforts of East Timor to secure independence from Indonesia. In 2000, he was responsible for certifying Israel 's withdrawal from Lebanon, and in 2006, he led talks in New York between the presidents of Cameroon and Nigeria which led to a settlement of the dispute between the two countries over the Bakassi peninsula.
Annan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disagreed sharply on Iran's nuclear program, on an Iranian exhibition of cartoons mocking the Holocaust, and on the then upcoming International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, an Iranian Holocaust denial conference in 2006. During a visit to Iran instigated by continued Iranian uranium enrichment, Annan said "I think the tragedy of the Holocaust is an undeniable historical fact and we should really accept that fact and teach people what happened in World War II and ensure it is never repeated."
Annan supported sending a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, Sudan. He worked with the government of Sudan to accept a transfer of power from the African Union peacekeeping mission to a UN one. Annan also worked with several Arab and Muslim countries on women's rights and other topics.
Beginning in 1998, Annan convened an annual UN "Security Council Retreat" with the 15 States' representatives of the Council. It was held at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Conference Center at the Rockefeller family estate at Pocantico, and was sponsored by both the RBF and the UN.
Lubbers sexual-harassment investigation
In June 2004, Annan was given a copy of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) report on the complaint brought by four female workers against Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees for sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and retaliation. The report also reviewed a long-serving staff member's allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Werner Blatter, Director of UNHCR Personnel. The investigation found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment; no mention was made publicly of the other charge against a senior official, or two subsequent complaints filed later that year. In the course of the official investigation, Lubbers wrote a letter which some considered was a threat to the female worker who had brought the charges. On 15 July 2004, Annan cleared Lubbers of the accusations, saying they were not substantial enough legally. His decision held until November 2004. When the OIOS issued its annual report to the UN General Assembly, it stated that it had found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment. These events were widely reported and weakened Annan's influence.
On 17 November 2004, Annan accepted an OIOS report clearing Dileep Nair, UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, of political corruption and sexual harassment charges. Some UN staff in New York disagreed with this conclusion, leading to extended debate on 19 November.
The internal UN-OIOS report on Lubbers was leaked, and sections accompanied by an article by Kate Holt were published in a British newspaper. In February 2005, he resigned as head of the UN refugee agency. Lubbers said he wanted to relieve political pressure on Annan.
Oil-for-Food scandal
In December 2004, reports surfaced that the Secretary-General's son Kojo Annan received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations.
Annan appointed the Independent Inquiry Committee, which was led by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, then the director of the United Nations Association of the US. In his first interview with the Inquiry Committee, Annan denied having had a meeting with Cotecna. Later in the inquiry, he recalled that he had met with Cotecna's chief executive Elie-Georges Massey twice. In a final report issued on 27 October, the committee found insufficient evidence to indict Kofi Annan on any illegal actions, but did find fault with Benon Sevan, a Turkish-Cypriot national who had worked for the UN for about 40 years. Appointed by Annan to the Oil-For-Food role, Sevan repeatedly asked Iraqis for allocations of oil to the African Middle East Petroleum Company. Sevan's behavior was "ethically improper", Volcker said to reporters. Sevan repeatedly denied the charges and argued that he was being made a "scapegoat". The Volcker report was highly critical of the UN management structure and the Security Council oversight. It strongly recommended a new position be established of Chief Operating Officer (COO), to handle the fiscal and administrative responsibilities than under the Secretary General's office. The report listed the companies, both Western and Middle Eastern, that benefited illegally from the program.
Nobel Peace Prize
In 2001, its centennial year, the Nobel Committee decided that the Peace Prize was to be divided between the UN and Annan. He was awarded the Peace Prize for having revitalized the UN and for having given priority to human rights. The Nobel Committee also recognized his commitment to the struggle to containing the spread of HIV in Africa and his declared opposition to international terrorism.
Relations between the United States and the United Nations
Kofi Annan supported his deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized the United States in a speech on 6 June 2006: "[T]he prevailing practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable. You will lose the UN one way or another. [...] [That] the US is constructively engaged with the UN [...] is not well known or understood, in part because much of the public discourse that reaches the US heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News." Malloch later said his talk was a "sincere and constructive critique of U.S. policy toward the U.N. by a friend and admirer."
The talk was unusual because it violated unofficial policy of not having top officials publicly criticize member nations. The interim US ambassador John R. Bolton, appointed by President George W. Bush, was reported to have told Annan on the phone: "I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time." Observers from other nations supported Malloch's view that conservative politicians in the US prevented many citizens from understanding the benefits of US involvement in the UN.
UN Resolution 61/225: World Diabetes Day
Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations General Assembly's passage of UN Resolution 61/225, to establish World Diabetes Day. The Resolution was the second UN General Assembly Resolution on a health-related issue (the other being HIV/AIDS). Resolution 61/225 is the only Health-related UN Resolution to pass by consensus. Sponsored by the Republic of South Africa and Bangladesh, the Resolution was passed on 20 December 2006.
UN Resolution 60/7: International Holocaust Remembrance day
Annan also witnessed the establishment of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the UN General Assembly on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session. The Resolution urges every member nation of the UN to honor the memory of Holocaust victims, and encourages the development of educational programs about Holocaust history to help prevent future acts of genocide. It rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an event and condemns all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief. International Holocaust Remembrance day is celebrated on 27 January, the day Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi camp.
Farewell addresses
On 19 September 2006, Annan gave a farewell address to world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, in anticipation of his retirement on 31 December. In the speech he outlined three major problems of "an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights and the rule of law", which he believes "have not resolved, but sharpened" during his time as Secretary-General. He also pointed to violence in Africa, and the Arab–Israeli conflict as two major issues warranting attention.
On 11 December 2006, in his final speech as Secretary-General, delivered at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, Annan recalled Truman's leadership in the founding of the United Nations. He called for the United States to return to President Truman's multilateralist foreign policies, and to follow Truman's credo that "the responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world". He also said that the United States must maintain its commitment to human rights, "including in the struggle against terrorism."
Post-UN career
Following his two terms as Secretary General, Annan was immediately suggested as a candidate to become Ghana's next President.
Kofi Annan Foundation
In 2007, Annan established the Kofi Annan Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit organization that works to promote better global governance and strengthen the capacities of people and countries to achieve a fairer, more peaceful world.
The Foundation believes that fair and peaceful societies rest on three pillars: Peace and Security, Sustainable Development and Human Rights and the Rule of Law, and they have made it their mission to mobilise the leadership and the political resolve needed to tackle threats to these three pillars ranging from violent conflict to flawed elections and climate change, with the aim of achieving a fairer, more peaceful world.
The Foundation provides the analytical, communication and co-ordination capacities needed to ensure that these objectives are achieved. Kofi Annan's contribution to peace worldwide is delivered through mediation, political mentoring, advocacy and advice. Through his engagement, Kofi Annan aims to strengthen local and international conflict resolution capabilities. The Foundation provides the analytical and logistical support to facilitate this in co-operation with relevant local, regional and international actors. The Foundation is guided by the following values and principles:
"The primacy of dialogue, tolerance and reconciliation as instruments for building and preserving peace within communities and between countries.
Respect for the rule of law and human rights as the foundations of good governance and democratic accountability.
The need to reduce hunger and poverty, and promote equality of opportunity to alleviate human suffering.
The Foundation is prepared to take timely action on important and pressing issues based on careful research and analysis.
The Foundation is non-partisan and serves as a neutral actor in conflict resolution activities.
The Foundation works in close cooperation with other organizations, public or private, with proven competencies in order to advance its mission.
The Foundation does not duplicate the effective efforts of others and only acts when there is a clear added value.
The Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization under Swiss law.
The Foundation is funded by a mix of public and private donors. Particular care is given to ensure that funding sources are beyond reproach and that contributions are politically untied."
The Foundation works mainly through private diplomacy, where Kofi Annan provides informal counsel and participates in discreet diplomatic initiatives to avert or resolve crises by applying his unique experience and inspirational leadership. He is often asked to intercede in crises, sometimes as an impartial independent mediator, sometimes as a special envoy of the international community. In recent years he has provided such counsel to Burkina Faso, Kenya, Myanmar, Senegal, Syria/Iraq and Colombia.
KNDR
Following the outbreak of violence during the 2007 Presidential elections in Kenya, the African Union established a Panel of Eminent African Personalities to assist in finding a peaceful solution to the crisis.
The panel, headed by Annan, managed to convince the two principal parties to the conflict, President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity (PNU) and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), to participate in the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation Process (KNDR). Over the course of 41 days of negotiations, several agreements regarding taking actions to stop the violence and remedying its consequences were signed. On 28 February President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga signed a coalition government agreement. Kofi Annan and was widely lauded by many Kenyans for this landmark achievement.
Joint Special Envoy for Syria
On 23 February 2012, Annan was appointed as the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, in an attempt to end the civil war taking place. He developed a six-point plan for peace:
commit to work with the Envoy in an inclusive Syrian-led political process to address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people, and, to this end, commit to appoint an empowered interlocutor when invited to do so by the Envoy;
commit to stop the fighting and achieve urgently an effective United Nations supervised cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties to protect civilians and stabilise the country.
ensure timely provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting, and to this end, as immediate steps, to accept and implement a daily two-hour humanitarian pause and to coordinate exact time and modalities of the daily pause through an efficient mechanism, including at local level;
intensify the pace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons, including especially vulnerable categories of persons, and persons involved in peaceful political activities, provide without delay through appropriate channels a list of all places in which such persons are being detained, immediately begin organizing access to such locations and through appropriate channels respond promptly to all written requests for information, access or release regarding such persons;
ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists and a non-discriminatory visa policy for them;
respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully as legally guaranteed.
On 2 August, he resigned as UN and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, citing the intransigence of both the Assad government and the rebels, as well as the stalemate on the Security Council as preventing any peaceful resolution of the situation. He also stated that the lack of international unity and ineffective diplomacy among the world leaders has made the peaceful resolution in Syria an impossible task.
Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security
Annan served as the Chair of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security. The Commission was launched in May 2011 as a joint initiative of the Kofi Annan Foundation and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. It comprised 12 eminent individuals from around the world, including Ernesto Zedillo, Martti Ahtisaari, Madeleine Albright and Amartya Sen, and aimed to highlight the importance of the integrity of elections to achieving a more secure, prosperous and stable world. The Commission released its final report: Democracy, a Strategy to Improve the Integrity of Elections Worldwide, in September 2012.
Other activities
Annan has become involved with several organizations with both global and African focuses. In 2007, Annan was named chairman of the prize committee for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, was chosen to lead the new formation of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, and was selected for the MacArthur Foundation Award for International Justice.
Annan serves as Chair of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues. In November 2008, Annan and fellow Elders Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel attempted to travel to Zimbabwe to make a first-hand assessment of the humanitarian situation in the country. Refused entry, the Elders instead carried out their assessment from Johannesburg, where they met Zimbabwe- and South Africa-based leaders from politics, business, international organisations and civil society. In May 2011, following months of political violence in Côte d'Ivoire, Annan travelled to the country with Elders Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson to encourage national reconciliation. On 16 October 2014, Kofi Annan attended the One Young World Summit in Dublin. During a session with fellow Elder Mary Robinson, Kofi Annan encouraged 1,300 young leaders from 191 countries to lead on intergenerational issues such as climate change and the need for action to take place now, not tomorrow. During the Summit he told leaders from 191 countries that addressing the effects of climate change was a general issue, for both the young and old.
“We don’t have to wait to act. The action must be now. You will come across people who think we should start tomorrow. Even for those who believe action should begin tomorrow, remind them tomorrow beings now, tomorrow beings today, so lets all move forward."
Annan currently serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion USD gift to support UN causes. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN.
Annan chairs the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. As Chair, he facilitates coalition building to leverage and broker knowledge, in addition to convening decision-makers to influence policy and create lasting change in Africa. Every year, the Panel releases a report, the Africa Progress Report, that outlines an issue of immediate importance to the continent and suggests a set of associated policies. In 2014, the Africa Progress Report highlighted the potential of African fisheries, agriculture and forests to drive economic development. The 2015 report explores the role of climate change and the potential of renewable energy investments in determining Africa's economic future.
Kofi Annan was appointed the Chancellor of the University of Ghana in 2008.
In May 2009 Annan became a global fellow of the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University. The Global Fellows program brings students together with global practitioners to share firsthand knowledge of experiences in the life of an international or public figure. He is also a fellow of The Committee on Global Thought appointed by the University.
On 2 September 2009, Annan was unveiled as the first Li Ka Shing Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The announcement was made during the school's 5th anniversary celebrations.
On 7 October 2010, Annan was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Global Center for Pluralism, Canada’s new international research and education center dedicated to the study and practice of pluralism worldwide. The Global Center for Pluralism is an initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan in partnership with the Government of Canada. The Center is located in Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to the creation of successful societies, the Center is founded on the premise that tolerance, openness and understanding towards the cultures, social structures, values and faiths of other peoples are essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development.
Memoir
On 4 September 2012, Annan published his memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, written with Nader Mousavizadeh, ISBN 978-159420420-3. The book is described as a personal biography of so-called global statecraft.
Personal life
In 1965 Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from a well-to-do family. Several years later they had a daughter, Ama, and later a son, Kojo. The couple separated in the late 1970s. In 1984, Annan married Nane Lagergren, a Swedish lawyer at the U.N. and the niece of Raoul Wallenberg. Mr Annan also had a loyal and long serving chauffeur John Miller (Mr Miller) who still is a close friend and confidant to Kofi and his son Kojo.
Honours
2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana2000: Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland2001: Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania2002: Knight Commander of the Most Courteous Order of Lesotho2005: Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty (Portugal)2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II (UK)2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Awards
2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of Lifetime Achievement2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations2002: winner of the "Profiles in Courage Award", given by the JFK Memorial Museum2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service.2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen2004: Freedom medal2006: International World Order of Culture, Science and Education, Award of the European Academy of Informatization, Belgium2006: Inter Press Service, International Achievement Award for Annan's lasting contributions to peace, security, and development2006: Olof Palme Prize2007: Wooden Crossbow, special award from the Swiss World Economic Forum2007: People in Europe Award of Verlagsgruppe Passau2007: MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Award for International Justice2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize2008: Harvard University Honors Prize2008: Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize – Münster (Westfalen)2008: Open Society Award – CEU Business School Budapest2011: Gothenburg Award 2012: Confucius Peace Prize
Honorary degrees
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (Kumasi), Honorary Doctor of Science, 24 August 1998
United Nations Mandated University for Peace, Honorary President, 1999
Lund University, Honorary Doctor of Law, 1999
National University of Ireland, Doctor of Law, 22 January 1999
Technische Universität Dresden, doctor honoris causa, 27 April 1999
Howard University, honorary doctorate of humane letters, 8 May 1999
Comenius University in Bratislava, doctor honoris causa, 15 June 1999
University of Michigan, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 3 May 1999
University of Notre Dame, Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, 21 May 2000
Seton Hall University, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Honorary Doctorate, February 2001
Brown University, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 28 May 2001
Liberty Medal International Selection Commission, Liberty Medal, 4 July 2001
Free University of Berlin, doctor honoris causa, 13 July 2001
Tilburg University, Honorary Doctorate, 2002
University of Alcalá, Doctor Honoris Causa, 9 April 2002
Northwestern University, Doctor of Laws, 21 June 2002
University of Pittsburgh, honorary Doctor of Public and International Affairs degree 21 October 2003
Ghent University (Belgium), doctor honoris causa 21 March 2003
Carleton University, Legum Doctor, honoris causa, 9 March 2004
University of Ottawa, Doctor of the University Degree, 9 March 2004
University of Pennsylvania, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 16 May 2005
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, doctor honoris causa, 12 October 2005
The George Washington University, Doctor of Public Service, 5 May 2006
University of Tokyo, Honorary Doctorate, 18 May 2006
Georgetown University, Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, 30 October 2006
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize (originally awarded 2003, but postponed due to Annan's illness), 18 November 2006
Princeton University, Crystal Tiger Award, 28 November 2006
Uppsala University, receiver of the Uppsala University Linnaeus Medal in gold, 23 May 2007, and doctor honoris causa 26 May 2007
King's College London, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 28 May 2008
University of Neuchâtel, Honorary Doctorate, 1 November 2008
Glasgow Caledonian University, Doctor of Laws, 18 November 2011
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University of Ghana, Legon had its first ever female Chancellor by the name of Mary Chinery-Hesse in 2018 after the passing of Kofi Annan, a former UN General Secretary
Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang was also the first woman to ever become vice-chancellor of a university in Ghana in 2008
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology appointed its first female Vice-Chancellor, Rita Akosua Dickson, in 2020
Women have proven over the years that they can excel in any field as long as they are given equal opportunities as their male counterparts.
The University of Cape Coast made significant history when it trusted and elected its first female Vice-Chancellor to run the institution's affairs. Since then, many tertiary institutions have learned and followed suit.
YEN.com.gh seeks to introduce some of the tenacious Ghanaian women whose hard work and brilliance spoke for them and were given the opportunity to hold topmost positions at the various universities in Ghana.
1. Mary Chinery-Hesse, first female Chancellor of the University of Ghana
She succeeded former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan as the Chancellor of the University of Ghana on August 1, 2018. This made her the first woman to hold the position.
Before her appointment, Mary was the vice-chairperson of the National Development Planning Commission and a member of the Centre for Policy Analysis board. She also worked with the United Nations (UN) and became the first-ever African woman appointed as the Resident Coordinator of the UN Systems and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme.
Her career took another turn when she became the first-ever woman Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the first African woman to attain the position of Under-Secretary-General in the history of the United Nations.
During her acceptance speech at her swearing-in ceremony as Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Madam Mary made an assurance to help return the university to its former glory with her gathered experiences.
"I insist that a chancellor should not be just a ceremonial face but also an unseen lead advocate. I promise not to simply make myself available for ceremonial events and handshakes at graduations.
Like my predecessors have done, I promise to put all the skills I hold from the school of life and the extensive network I've developed in the process at the disposal of the University of Ghana", she said.
Mary Chinery-Hesse had her secondary education at Wesley Girls’ High School and Mfantsipim School. She continued to the University of Ghana, where she earned a Sociology and Economics degree. In addition, Mary had a postgraduate degree in Development Economics at the University of Dublin and at the World Bank Institute in Washington, D.C.
In 1991, she became the first female alumnus of the University of Ghana to be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws.
Mary Chinery-Hesse was married to Lebrecht James Nii Tettey Chinery-Hesse. He was a lawyer, a civil servant, and a diplomat. He worked as a legislative drafting expert for Uganda, Ghana, Zambia, and Sierra Leone. He previously served as Ghana's acting attorney general and solicitor general. Lebrecht, unfortunately, passed on on August 30, 2018, at the age of 88.
The two had a son, Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse, a technology entrepreneur and the founder of theSOFTtribe, the oldest and largest software company in Ghana. He is popularly known as the Bill Gates of Africa.
2. Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, first Vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Coast
In 2008, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang made history when she became the first-ever female vice-chancellor in Ghana. She functioned in the role for four years.
Prior to her appointment, she taught at the University of Cape Coast from 1986 as a professor of Literature and held various positions such as Head of the Department of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Dean of the Board of Graduate Studies and Founding Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research.
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang also has a very active political background. She served as the Minister of Education in Ghana from 2013 to 2017, appointed by the then president John Dramani Mahama.
She also became the first female presidential running mate for the National Democratic Congress flagbearer. The official declaration was made in 2020
Speaking at her outdooring ceremony as the NDC running mate. Professor Naana applauded all who made her selection possible and for respecting women in the country and allowing them to hold such positions.
"The women of Ghana will not forget. The youth will remember. Generations to come will commit your decision to memory and make it a reference point. We will partner with our men and youth as we've always have done and work hard to achieve peace in our land because that is the best way to respond to this high recognition", she said in an interview.
She also stated that being the first in history to become a female running mate is gratifying but what really matters is holding the door open for those behind and creating other avenues for self-actualization for many more.
Professor Naana is a product of Wesley Girls' Senior High School and acquired her bachelor's degree in English and French from the University of Cape Coast. She continued to the University of Dakar for a diploma in Advanced Studies in French and got a master's and a doctorate from York University, Canada.
The historic Ghanaian woman has three children; Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, who has a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, a graduate of West Virginia University, and Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang, sa doctorate holder in English Literature and Comparative Literature.
3. Rita Akosua Dickson, first female Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
History was made in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) when Professor Rita Akosua Dickson became the first woman to hold the position of Vice-chancellor of the school on August 1, 2020.
Professor Dickson's teaching career at KNUST began in 2000 as a lecturer at the school's Department of Pharmacognosy. She lectured for three years and left for the UK to pursue a PhD at Kings’ College London. Rita returned to teaching in 2007, and by 2009, she got promoted to Senior Lecturer and then to an associate professor of Pharmacognosy in 2014.
Since then, the driven Ghanaian woman has taken up positions such as Head of the Department of Pharmacognosy, Vice Dean and eventually, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. This made her the first woman in the history of the Faculty to be appointed Dean.
Professor Rita Akosua Dickson's record of 'firsts' continued when she became KNUST's first female Pro-vice chancellor in October 2018.
During her address as the newest Vice-chancellor of KNUST madam Rita admitted that she had no idea she would one day be in a leadership position at her alma mater.
"When I first step foot on this campus in 1990 to commence my undergraduate studies, it never crossed my mind that a day like this would come when I, Akosua would stand before this august gathering in this hall and the many more who have joined us via various virtual platforms as the Vice-chancellor of this university. It is indeed very true that with God, all things are possible", she said.
She shared her vision for KNUST as one of its leaders and admonished all gathered to buy into it for it to become a reality.
"My vision is to position KNUST as a competitive global research intensive institution for the advancement in science and technology for industrial and social uptake towards sustainable national and global development"
Madam Rita started her secondary education at St. Monica's Secondary School and completed at Wesley Girls' High School. She then moved to KNUST, where she pursued bachelor's and master's degrees in Pharmacy.
The current Vice-chancellor of KNUST has four daughters with her husband, Nana Sarkodie Dickson, a Chartered Accountant.
4. First female Vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
Professor Nana Aba Appiah became the 2nd woman to make history at the University of Ghana after Mary Chinery-Hesse when she was appointed as the first female Vice-chancellor of the school in October 2021.
She acted as the vice-chancellor in August of the same year. Prior to that, Nana Aba was the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs (ASA) and had been functioning in that position since November 2019.
The Professor's career at the University of Ghana began in 2001 when she got employed as a Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics. After six years, she was promoted to Senior Lecturer and then to Associate Professor until 2017, when she became full Professor.
Nana Aba has held several positions during her time at the premier university. In 2013, She became the Head of the Department of Linguistics and later served as the Dean of the School of Languages before being appointed Pro-vice chancellor.
During her speech at the induction ceremony, Professor Appiah Amfo addressed the fact that it took the university many years to appoint a female vice-chancellor, but at the same time, she is glad that day finally arrived.
"Today, the university of Ghana has made history with the induction into office of it's first female Vice-chancellor. It has taken us awhile, seven decades and three years. Other public universities when ahead of us in this advancement in gender equality but when the university of Ghana did it, we did it in a comprehensive style."
The UG vice-chancellor also opened up about her mother and late father's role in her life, which has gotten her thus far.
"I thank my parents for bringing me up to make me believe I can achieve whatever I dreamt of. Dad, you missed this day, but I'm positive that you're beaming with smiles from heaven, and you're the proudest dad ever. Mum, you taught me the attributes of resilience, forte and forthrightness, and you live by these", she said.
After having her secondary education at Holy Child School and Archbishop Porter Girls' Secondary School, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo proceeded to the University of Ghana to pursue a degree in French and Linguistics in 1991. She continued to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway and acquired both master's and PhD in Linguistics.
The first female Vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana has three children, Yoofi, Maame Araba and Efua Benyiwa, with her husband, Frank Amfo. The two met at UG during their undergraduate studies.
5. Professor Lydia Aziato, first female Vice-chancellor of Uthe niversity of Health and Allied Sciences
The University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), in August 2022, joined the list of Ghanaian universities that have made history with the appointment of Professor Lydia Aziato as its first-ever female Vice-chancellor since its inception.
The career journey of Lydia Aziato started in Mamprobi Policlinic in Accra as a Bedside nurse in 1997. Four years later, she joined the University of Ghana, Legon as a Senior Nurse Technician and saw herself become an Assistant Lecturer, a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and then an Associate Lecturer in 2017.
During her induction ceremony, the UHAS Vice-chancellor made known her vision for UHAS ;
"My vision for the university is to create a dynamic and responsive environment that promotes credible research, quality teaching and learning, vibrant internal processes, active stakeholder engagement grounded by the principles of growth, integrity, fairness, technology and innovation and service", she stated in a video.
In 2020, Lydia Aziato made history as she became the first nurse to become a Professor in Ghana. Overall, she taught at the University of Ghana for 21 years and held a number of positions there. She became the Head of Department for Adult Health at the University of Ghana School of Nursing and Midwifery from 2016-2018 and was appointed as Dean of the School in 2019.
During her time as a lecturer, Professor Lydia Aziato published over 70 articles, three books and four book chapters.
Professor Aziato is the current president of the Chi Omicron Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), the second largest Nursing organization globally. She is also the founder of Research Mentorship Alliance, an NGO that help develop the research skills of young scientists in Ghana.
The driven history maker is a product of the Nursing and Midwifery College, Korle Bu, the University of Ghana, Legon, Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Canada and the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa.
Dr Lucy Agyepong is the 1st Ghanaian Engineer Appointed to African Asian Pacific Engineering Council
In an earlier publication, YEN.com.gh reported that Dr Lucy Agyepong made history as the first Ghanaian engineer to be appointed to the African Asian Pacific Engineering Council (AAPEC) in 2021.
She imprinted her name in the sands of time as the only female on the Council. Dr Agyepong was serving as the Associate Dean of Engineering at the Academic City University College before the appointment.
Her new role at AAPEC included working with other members to drive the African Asian Pacific Accord signed between the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific and the Federation of African Engineering Organisations on July 20, 2020, Graphic Online reported.
Source: YEN.com.gh
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Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan chided African leaders for their penchant to clinch to power through fraudulent elections in a paper addressing African leaders.
He instead admonished them to invest in their country’s youth and build strong systems to deliver justice and development to their people.
Delivering his ‘treatise’ during a lecture on leadership and public service dubbed ‘An afternoon with Kofi Annan’ organized by the alumni of his alma mater Mfantsipim College, the renowned Ghanaian international statesman who has spent more than five decades in public service also called on African citizens to contribute their quota towards the transformation of Africa.
Bad leadership
He reproached African leaders saying “a growing number of Presidents are changing their constitutions and subverting elections to remain in power indefinitely. According to international watch dogs, democratic freedoms seem to be in retreat on our continent. Although governments organize elections, many lack integrity.”
He further decried the divisive politicking of ‘unscrupulous African leaders’ noting, ‘elections with integrity confer legitimacy on the winners and offers protection to the losers. But many elections have paradoxically exacerbated identity politics as unscrupulous politicians banded to ethnic and religious cravings and prejudices to mobilize voters in their favour.”
Ticking time bomb
‘These developments’ he warned ‘are all the more serious given the size and expectations of our youth population. African population will grow to 2 billion by 2050 and 4 billion by the end of the century. This demographic boom can be a blessing or a curse depending on the policies we adopt. But on current trends, there are grounds for concern.”
Death of African youth in Mediterranean is hurting and shocking
Even though African youth are ‘better educated, more connected with higher expectations as compared to previous generations’ Kofi Annan is worried their perspective are bleaker. ‘Every year, it hurts me, it hurts me and it shocks me to see thousands of young people drown in the Mediterranean in search for a better life because they do not think it is possible to have that life at home’.
Call for quality leaders
“No society can long prosper without respect for the rule of law and human rights. The key to our continent’s ability to chart the turbulent waters ahead will be the quality of our leadership. Africa needs courageous persistent and compassionate leaders who will tap into the continents vitality to create a better future,” he charged.
Redefining leadership
“We need true democratic leaders who understand that they are at the service of the citizens and not the other way around. Leadership is service. Leaders must understand that they hold power in trust of the people and it can also be taken away.”
Too few enlightened leaders in Africa
“Unfortunately, Africa has had too few of enlightened people of this kind. Part of the problem is that many countries have for too long invested too much power and hope in strong presidents. Others have been misled by leaders who use by leaders who use this argument to prolong their stay in office often aindefinitely” he regretted.
“A leader must listen’ he intimated continuing thus: ‘he must listen to what he said and above all what is not said. A good leader must also be a good follower. When leaders fail to lead the people will lead and make them follow. In addition, we also need strong institutions to buttress our system. We also need to think beyond the state. Strong businesses, strong civil societies to hold governments’ to the promises they make to the people will be just as important.”
Development not a one man show
Here called on all, to put their shoulders to the wheel to drive Africa’s development agenda. ‘This continent’s development cannot and will not come from a single leader. But from the collective ground swell of change and transformation. We each have a role to play.”
Enlightened Africa youth rooted in African values
He also called on African governments to invest in the youth and give them to opportunity to lead.
“We must offer our growing population, the opportunity for employment. We must allow African youth to lead us into the future with enlightened modernity rooted in African values. As we look to the future, we must remember the youth of the past leaders. Kwame Nkrumah was 48 when he became the first leader of Ghana in March 1957 and Gamel Abdul Nasser was 38 when he became Egypt’s second president in 1956. We must remember that one is not too young to lead nor too old to learn.”
Nuggets to chew on
“Today’s leaders must ponder important questions, is the welfare of the people the paramount occupation? Have we invested our revenues in areas that will benefit the people, particularly the young? Mfantsipim, after all, means a host of scholars for change. So many of us here were educated at a time, illuminated by the hope of liberation and African revolution. It is our responsibility then and our privilege as Mfantsipim Old boys to serve our people and make progress towards our vision of a successful Africa.”
Dwindling hope
“Both the years of Ghana’s independence when I graduated from Mfantsipim and decades later when I stepped down as Secretary-General of the United Nations, I found myself full of hope for Africa and our global home. I am less optimistic today although the pessimism of the intellect must be tempered by the optimism of will power.”
Crossroads
“Dear friends, we are at cross roads. The period of fast growth is over for the foreseeable future. Many of our countries squandered the opportunities that this period of what some call the super cycle for commodity prices provided. Today we have no choice but to pursue reform in straightened circumstances.”
Masters of our own destinies
“The decisions we take today, both in government, in business and civil society will determine whether the continent can ride the fourth wave successfully. We cannot fail to meet our youth’s aspiration with opportunity. More than ever, out future is in our hands. A bright African future is one that requires Africa’s people as central agents. We must ride the wave that begun long ago at independence to come together to affirm the way forward for the continent.”
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Sitting in the studio audience for the final of Ghana’s answer to The Apprentice, Anthony Kofi Annan thought he might be better suited as a contestant.
He was right. Two years later, the 27-year-old teaching assistant triumphed in The Challenge and is now enjoying his prize: an all-expenses scholarship to study at Northumbria University.
“I went to support one of my friends, who was competing that night, and I drew inspiration from him,” says Annan, who has just completed his first term at the Newcastle-based university.
Annan, who worked in the maths department of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in Ghana’s second city Kumasi, before joining the show in October, was one of 12 contestants who completed business-related tasks in a format similar to that of the BBC hit show starring Lord Sugar.
But unlike competitors on The Apprentice, Annan had to get the support of the public to stay in the contest, with up to 4.5 million voting each week during the three months of filming.
He was one of three winners chosen by a panel of business experts in December. His prize is a master’s scholarship to a British university, worth around £35,000 – six times the average annual salary in the West African state.
Other winners in the British Council-backed show will attend Robert Gordon University, in Aberdeen, and the University of Salford.
“It was a big change,” reflects Annan on his arrival in northeast England in January.
“The weather is very different to Ghana, as is the food. I’ve found some good African shops where I can buy yams and rice, but I’ve tried fish and chips in the university refectory a few times, too,” he adds.
The learning environment at Northumbria’s Newcastle Business School, where he is taking a MSc in business and financial management, also differs from that in Ghana.
“Students in Ghana are only entitled to three hours’ internet access a day and most people can’t afford to pay for more as it’s very expensive,” he says. “Having the internet at your disposal whenever you want means you can search for electronic articles and books, making things much simpler.”
Classes at Northumbria are very different, with students encouraged to ask questions and speak their minds, says Annan.
According to the university, the student has excelled in his studies at Northumbria and is “doing [Ghana] proud”. After his course Annan aims to undertake a PhD before starting a data-driven research company in his home country.
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I worked for Professor Johnson for three years as a research assistant for a project examining the financial health of Indiana local governments. My experience on that project inspired me to redirect my research agenda toward local government. My time working with Professor Johnson was formative for my academic career.
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Dr. Gayle, currently president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, is a leader in global and domestic public health, having served as President and CEO of CARE and in leadership roles at the Centers for Disease Control and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she worked on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues. In her commencement speech at Rensselaer in 2019, she said: "there’s a term in wildlife biology that describes the importance of keeping a soft focus on tracking animals. The idea is that when you zero in too closely on what you’re seeking you can miss something better in the periphery. For me that soft focus was the desire to help create positive social change and to address issues of social justice and equity." Though Dr. Gayle had that general interest, she didn't imagine the specific form it would take working in public health. This message resonates with me as someone who originally planned to go to medical school but realized that I could also have an impact as a researcher and teacher of global health issues and that this was a better fit for me. It's important for all of us to remain true to our core ideals and goals while staying open to the specific, and maybe unexpected, opportunities that come our way.
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Booker T. Washington and his Tuskegee Institute staff, partnered with philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to create the Rosenwald program. The program represented a massive effort to improve black rural schooling in the South through public-private partnership. In the short run, the Rosenwald Fund had an impressive effect creating over 5,300 Rosenwald buildings blanketing fifteen southern states.
How do they connect to your work?
My great-grandparents helped open the Carol Boyd School in rural Mecklenburg County, VA in 1919 , a Rosenwald School. As a school board member in Prince George's County, MD I have supported preservation of the Ridgely Rosenwald School in Capital Heights. Currently I am a Board Member of the federal campaign to create a national park to Rosenwald Schools.
How does this person inspire you?
James Lawson was a leader in crafting and applying nonviolent tactics during the Civil Rights Movement. In this role, among other things, he played a notable part in the Nashville desegregation campaign, coordinating the Freedom Rides, and training many activists in nonviolent tactics. Drawing on teachings from Gandhi, he crafted strategies and approaches that were effective in the U.S. south. What is more, he continues to advocate for nonviolence, institutionalizing these lessons to support a wide-range of nonviolent mass movements. I study political violence and see the large and varied costs that violence can have. Lawson’s effective use of non-violent strategies is a reminder that non-violence can be successful as well. What makes his example especially inspiring to me is that many of my colleagues studying the use of nonviolent tactics find that those taking up non-violent strategies can face the same threats as those who take up arms. This means that individuals must display great courage and leaders of non-violent movements must be inspiriting, creative, and committed. Lawson demonstrated all of these traits.
How does this person inspire you?
I think about Shirley Chisholm, who was the first black woman elected to Congress (in 1968) and to run for President (1972). Knowing that she likely would not win, Chisholm was still unapologetic about running and on insisting that people pay attention to the issues she raised for the Democratic platform. She often said that if you aren't given a seat at the table, bring your own chair. I think about that quotation a lot in my own work and civic life.
How does this person inspire you?
Senator Anne Cools was the first black person appointed to the Senate of Canada and still is its longest serving member. She was also the first black female senator in North America. But she is much more than just a political figure. As a college student, she was a civil rights activist. She was arrested and jailed for 4 months during a sit-in against racial bias at what would become my alma mater, Concordia University. Later on, she led one of the first shelters for victims of domestic violence in Canada.
How do they connect to your work?
As someone who studies nonprofits, I am always inspired by the dedication and passion of the people who work in the sector. For example, Senator Cools said in an interview that, when she started at the shelter, it was in deep financial trouble and she and her employees all agreed to work for six months without pay to keep the shelter alive. It was just that important, so they did it. Senator Cools is an embodiment of the values of social justice, empowerment, and compassion that I see and admire in so many nonprofits and nonprofit workers that I learn about through my work.
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The distinguished Ghanaian diplomat and international civil servant Kofi Annan passed away on Saturday, August 18 in Bern, Switzerland, after a brief illness. He was aged 80. In January 1997 he was sworn-in as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, taking over from the hapless Egyptian Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali whose hectoring professorial style had alienated […]
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The distinguished Ghanaian diplomat and international civil servant Kofi Annan passed away on Saturday, August 18 in Bern, Switzerland, after a brief illness. He was aged 80.
In January 1997 he was sworn-in as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, taking over from the hapless Egyptian Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali whose hectoring professorial style had alienated the Americans.
The organisation was on the verge of financial bankruptcy.
Having risen to Under Secretary-General and head of Department of Peacekeeping Operations, DPKO, he never expected to be considered for the ultimate prize. The hand of destiny.
He was the first to have risen through the ranks, having joined the organisation as a lowly Budget Officer in the WHO in 1962.
Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on April 8, 1938, from a long line of Ashanti tribal chiefs.
He had a twin sister, Effua Atta, who predeceased him in 1991. He attended the famous Methodist boarding school, Mfantsipim, from 1954 to 1957.
In 1958 he enrolled as an undergraduate student of economics at Kumasi College of Science and Technology, later renamed Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
My wife and I once drove from Abidjan through Kumasi, Accra and Aflao, across the border through Togo and Benin to Lagos.
We discovered a West African countryside that is both enchanting and spiritually inspiring.
I was deeply moved when I beheld Mfantsipim serenely perched on the ancient savannah hills; an institution that since the 1870s has nurtured generations of boys who have gone on to accomplish mighty exploits for God and country.
Ghana became independent in 1957 under the leadership of the great pan-Africanist statesman Kwame Nkrumah.
A believer in the philosophy of African Personality, Nkrumah identified a crop of bright young men whom he nurtured and groomed.
He aimed to raise high royal princes who could hold their own at any court in the world.
Among them were Kenneth Dadzie, scholar of Queens College Cambridge, who later became Secretary-General of UNCTAD; distinguished philosopher William Abraham, first African to win the coveted Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford; and the remarkable Alexander Kwapong who graduated with a starred First in Classics at Cambridge and went on to become Deputy Rector of the UN University in Tokyo. Kofi Annan belonged to that group.
In 1958 Annan enrolled at Macalester College in Minnesota on a Ford Foundation Fellowship, graduating with honours in Economics in 1961.
He was reputed to have been a good student and a keen sportsman.
During 1962-1963 he earned a masters at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies; subsequently earning a mid-career management masters at the Sloan School at MIT.
One of the first things he did as Secretary-General was to institute a commission to investigate failure of the DPKO to prevent genocide in Rwanda and the massacres in Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was a damning report.
Annan could brutally be honest with others as he was with himself.
With regards to his failure to prevent the Rwanda genocide as head of DPKO, he lamented: “I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support.”
His time as Secretary-General coincided with some of the most turbulent years in our post-Cold War era.
The war in Yugoslavia, the Iraq crisis and the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York tested the institutions of global governance to their ultimate limit.
The position of UN Secretary-General has been described as “the most impossible job in the world.”
Whilst the permanent members expect the incumbent to be more of secretary than general, the demands of the job and the expectations of the international public require that he acts more as a general.
The most successful have been those who managed to achieve an Aristotelian balance between the two opposing expectations.
No one faced that challenge more than Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden – a highly accomplished political economist, statesman and mystic — who perished in a mysterious plane crash on his way to finding a lasting peace in the Congo in 1965.
It was the peak of the Cold War and he found himself in a classic game-theoretic prisoner’s dilemma.
The lot fell on him to redefine the very meaning and purpose of international service and assert the role and independence of the Secretary-General and his special offices in the name of humanity and the global interest.
When asked about the impact of the 1789 French revolution, Chinese Premier Zhou En-Lai famously replied that it was “too early to say”.
It might be too early to say whether Kofi Annan was a great Secretary-General or even a successful one.
Perhaps no one understood the system inside-out as much as he did. He brought those insights to bear upon the far-reaching reforms that he implemented.
No other scribe has done more to reform the Secretariat, with the possible exception of my favourite, the remarkable Dag Hammarskjöld.
Annan promoted the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect, R2P; enshrining the principle of humanitarian intervention in the jurisprudence of International Law.
He created the Office of Deputy Secretary-General, whose pioneer incumbent was Louise Fréchette of Canada, partly, according to one insider, to assure Western interests that were not altogether persuaded that a black African could run the UN successfully.
Racism remains endemic in the world body. The Global Compact and the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, were his idea.
He also created the Global Funds to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
A champion of peace, human rights and the rule of law, he set up the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council.
He opposed the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, condemning it as “illegal”.
To punish him for his effrontery, the Bush administration instituted investigations into alleged corruption by UN officials in the Iraq “Oil-for-Food” Programme.
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The Board of Trustees maintain a full list of honorary degrees awarded to people who have exemplified in their work the highest ideals and standards to which the University is dedicated.
Speakers
2023 Adam Silver, Commissioner of the National Basketball Assocation
2022 Mary Barra, Chair and CEO, General Motors
2021 John Legend, Singer-songwriter, actor, producer and philanthropist
2020 Ken Jeong, Actor, comedian and Duke alum
2019 Lisa Borders, Former President and CEO of Time’s Up
2018 Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
2017 David Rubenstein, Former Chair of the university’s Board of Trustees
2016 Michael Krzyzewski, Duke Men’s Basketball Head Coach
2015 Paul Farmer, Co-founder, Partners In Health
2014 General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
2013 Melinda Gates, Philanthropist and Businesswoman
2012 Fareed Zakaria, Journalist and Foreign Policy Author
2011 John Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco
2010 Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker/economist
2009 Oprah Winfrey, Philanthropist
2008 Barbara Kingsolver, Writer
2007 G. Richard Wagoner, Jr., Chair and CEO, General Motors
2006 John Hope Franklin, J. B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History
2005 Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile
2004 Madeleine Albright, Sixty-fourth U.S. Secretary of State
2003 Nannerl O. Keohane, excerpts from Kofi Annan’s speech & comments from Honorary degree recipients
2002 Thomas K. Wolfe, Jr., Journalist
2001 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Broadcast Journalist
2000 Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Public Servant
1999 Corinne Boggs Roberts (Cokie), Broadcast Journalist
1998 George H. W. Bush, 41st President of U.S.
1997 James Earl Carter, Jr., 39th President of U.S.
1996 Jane Alexander, Chairman, NEA
1995 David Gergen, Former presidential adviser, Prof. In Public Policy
1994 Judy Woodruff, Broadcast Journalist
1993 Bill Bradley, United States Senator, New Jersey
1992 Marian Wright Edelman, lawyer, educator, crusader for children’s rights
1991 George F. Will, syndicated columnist, educator, political commentator
1990 Tom Brokaw, Television Journalist
1989 Stephen Jay Gould, Historian of Science and Professor of Geology, Harvard University
1988 Garry B. Trudeau, Nationally Syndicated Cartoonist
1987 Edward (Ted) Koppel, Broadcast Journalist
Student Speakers
Any graduating student may submit a speech to be considered. Speeches are then reviewed and voted upon by a committee of faculty, staff and students.
2023 Kyle- Brandon Denis & Dylan Eiger
2021 Meghana Sai Iragavarapu
2020 Sabrina Maciariello
2019 Leah Rosen
2018 Deeksha Malhotra, B.S.
2017 Elena Elsie Elliott, A.B.
2016 Shannon Marie Beckham, A.B.
2015 Andrew Woodall Kragie, A.B.
2014 Jennifer Lenore Sherman, A.B.
2013 Andrew Tower Barnhill, M.Div.
2012 Roshan Kumar Sadanani, B.S.E.
2011 Michael Weston Lefevre, A.B.
2010 David Scott Distenfeld, A.B.
2009 Robert Paul Jones, M.D.
2008 Kyle George Knight, A.B. and Matthew D. Zafirovski, A.B.
2007 David K. Schmidt, A.B.
2006 Yazan R. Kopty, A.B.
2005 George Robert Painter IV, A.B.
2004 Paul William Downs, A.B.
2003 Terry Aaron Schuster, A.B.
2002 Timothy Michael Saintsing, M.P.P.
2001 Daniel Poor Mallory, A.B.
2000 Matha Holly Cooper, A.B.
1999 Samantha L. Wood, B.S.
1998 Cristina Cardoze, A.B.
1997 Edrienne M. Mason, A.B.
1994 Stephanie A. Sheps, A.B.
1992 Jennifer H. Ehlin, A.B.
1990 Mechelle Renee Evans, A.B.
1989 Stephen John Batten, A.B.
1988 David Mitchell Feitel, J.D.
1987 Frederick W. (Chip) Giessler II, B.S.
1986 David M. Allen, J.D.
1985 J. Porter Durham, J.D.
1984 Karen E. Lynch, A.B.
1983 Daniel S. Voll, A.B.
1982 Frederick Robinson, J.D.
1981 Harsha Murthy, A.B.
1980 Hans C. Linnartz, J.D.
1979 Gary W. Jackson, J.D.
1978 Michele Miller, A.B.
1977 Ian Neil Abrams, A.B.
1976 Kevin Moore, B.S.
1975 Marsha Michele McGraw, A.B.
1974 John Mortin Robinson, A.B.
1973 Susan Elizabeth Tifft, A.B.
1972 Clarence Geno Newsome, A.B.
1971 Byron Roscoe Trauger, A.B.
1970 Kenneth Powers Vickery, A.B.
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Most of the computer science I use in my current job I learnt in Ghana, but the main thing I learnt at Cambridge was confidence and that I can sit in a room with the best brains in the world and will not be intimidated.
Lawrence Owusu
Lawrence Owusu’s biggest disappointment became his greatest opportunity. After being told he had not been accepted onto an architecture course in Ghana, he spent a year working at an internet cafe where he developed a passion for computer science.
That passion took him to Cambridge where he did his master’s and was the seed of a successful career in software development.
Lawrence was born in Nigeria and lived there until he was four when his parents moved back to Accra in Ghana. They had moved to Nigeria for work – his father was running a bakery business and his mother was a midwife. Lawrence is the eldest of five children.
He attended a mixture of state and private schools. He did well academically and was joint best student in his cohort at his junior secondary school. He then moved to Mfantispim School – the same high school that former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had attended – where he boarded.
By the time he started at junior high school Lawrence knew he was more interested in science than in the arts, although he enjoyed technical drawing. At secondary school he took part in the school’s debating club and travelled across Ghana to take part in competitions. He was also became very engaged in his Christian beliefs at secondary school. “It was when I turned 11 that I discovered the importance of religion to me. It is core to everything I do,” he says.
Computer science
When he finished school he applied to university to do an ultra-competitive course in architecture, but due to a strike by university lecturers that year, only a tiny number of the top students were accepted. Lawrence says this was a very low point for him. “Many of my friends who had chosen subjects with less stringent admissions requirements were accepted. I felt like a failure,” he says.
That decision, however, was to change his life. Lawrence started working as manager of an internet cafe run by a family friend and developed a love of computers. “I had no idea about computers before that, but I was helping people to browse online and spent the year playing around with computers and helping people learn about them,” he says.
After a year he applied to do computer science at university and was accepted. Not only did that change the course of his career, but he also met the woman who was to become his wife on the course.
During his four-year degree course at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology [KNUST] he went the extra mile, driven by his enthusiasm for computer science. Tech was becoming huge outside Ghana and inside, it was a pioneering subject to take. Lawrence got the highest grade ever attained in his department.
He was also very involved in Christian organisations and was president of the one of the Christian unions on campus. As part of that work, he organised a summer vacation programme involving students going to remote villages to educate people about social and health issues and teach the Gospel at primary schools. “I had lived in the city and these people were very poor. You don’t see that level of poverty living in the city,” he says. “It really opened my eyes and, although they were poor, they ate more healthily than people in the city. The people eat what they grow. It is very organic.
Lawrence also co-founded the KNUST Linux Club. He says a lot of students in Ghana do courses because their parents think they are a good idea, but lack any enthusiasm or interest in them. “Many students in my class didn’t seem to want to do computer science so I organised classes to explain some of the course work to them and also introduce them to Linux,” he says.
He also worked as a teaching assistant in the computer science department and was a teaching assistant in the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT during vacations.
At the end of his course Lawrence knew he wanted to continue in academia and do a master’s, but there were no universities in Ghana at that time which offered a master’s in computer science.
Cambridge
He applied for a scholarship in Australia, but didn’t get it. Then his wife requested an application pack for him to study at the University of Cambridge. “I thought it was a waste of time as it is so competitive,” said Lawrence. “She made me fill it in.” He got an interview and was shortlisted for two scholarships, including the Gates Cambridge Scholarship which he eventually won.
Lawrence was accepted to do an MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology and started in autumn 2007. He was keen to move away from theory and to use computer science to do something practical. He was interested in cutting edge research on programming computers to understand and interpret speech.
“It’s a difficult area because language is so complicated and not logical,” he says. In addition to the difficulty of the course, he was struggling with the cold UK weather and with cultural differences in how master’s courses are taught in the UK and in Ghana. In the UK, he says, there is much more emphasis on independent study. He overcame those challenges and finished his Cambridge course with distinction.
Lawrence says what he learnt at Cambridge has been invaluable in his job, but not perhaps in the way he had anticipated. “Most of the computer science I use in my current job,” he says, “I learnt in Ghana, but the main thing I learnt at Cambridge was confidence and that I can sit in a room with the best brains in the world and will not be intimidated.”
Lawrence attended Gates Cambridge events and after he finished his course he went back to Ghana with a fellow scholar to encourage other students to apply for the scholarship and to tell Ghanaian students that “they are better than they think they are”.
Soon after he left Cambridge, Lawrence married his girlfriend, who had been studying at LSE. The two soon started a family and now have three children, aged seven, four and two.
While he was at Cambridge, Lawrence was offered a job in Tessella – a software company close to Oxford and stayed there for eight months after his master's course, working as a software developer. He was made redundant during the recession and has been building financial software at various banks in London ever since. He has recently become a contractor and is currently working as a Senior Java consultant for Unicredit, a European bank, building foreign exchange (FX) pricing and trading systems.
On the side he has developed his own android app which brings together news from different media houses in Ghana in one place. Initially he did it for himself, but soon saw that there were potentially many Ghanaians living outside Ghana who wanted news from home so he put it on Google Play Store. The app has had over 100,000 downloads since. Lawrence is keen to develop further useful apps and has also signed up as a buddy for new African scholars studying in the UK.
Although his young family means he has to focus his time on work and family life, he is interested in using his skills for greater social impact.
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Reminiscences of Adisadel
CHAPTER SEVEN
SCHOLARSHIP AND ACHIEVEMENTS
It is a tradition dating back to the late 1920s for the School to organise yearly competitive examinations among the senior students, generally the Fifth and Sixth Formers so as to test their intelligence and knowledge of the major subjects taught at the School. The winners of the competitions in such disciplines as the Classics, Greek, Mathematics and English are acclaimed scholars in those particular fields of study and their names are inscribed in special scrolls provided for the purposes. The scrolls bearing the individual names of all the winners each year are displayed in the School Assembly Hall.
Originally, the special prizes were the Hamlyn Greek Prize, the Hare's Classics Prize, the Fisher's Mathematics Prize, the Dyce-Sharpe Essay Prize and the "Victores Laudorum", for those students who display prowess or exceptional qualities in the field of sports. The Hamlyn Greek Prize has now been replaced by "The Science Prize", the Classics Prize by the "French Prize". The Dyce-Sharpe Essay Prize has become simply the "English Prize". Naturally, there were then as now keen rivalry among the senior students in the Fifth and Sixth Forms for those special prizes which have the effect of immortalising one's name as a "Scholar" in so far as one's special field of achievement is concerned.
It was something of a feat to be able to win even one of those glittering prizes of the School, more so, to be a double prize-winner. Of course, the winning of such prizes at one and the same time, or on other occasions, has not been beyond the capabilities of brighter students' of the School. For example, in 1935, the School's Silver Jubilee Year, one `brainy' sixth form student - J. A. Boateng - achieved the rare distinction of winning the three main prizes of the School, namely, the Hamlyn Greek, the Hare's Classics and the Fisher's Mathematics Prizes in a row, thus, setting an all-time record that is distinctive and stands, in a class by itself.
In the following year 1936, a fifth form student, G. M. Pitcher, caused quite a flutter in the sixth-form dovecot when he won the coveted Hare's Classics Prize, before then the monopoly of the sixth formers, and went on to improve upon his academic performances by winning again the Hare's Classics prize together with the Hamlyn Greek prize the following year, 1937. Pitcher's academic brilliance was enhanced by the fact that he had a capacity for leadership as well. He was also the Head Prefect of the School for 1937.
Other students who won three prizes at one and the same time, apart from J.A. Boateng mentioned above include, J. H. Sackey (1945) and M.J. Anaman (1956) both of whom won the Classics. Greek and English Prizes. W.E. Abraham (1951) took the Classics, Mathematics and English Prizes. C.C. Lokko (1946) won the Classics and the Greek Prizes in addition to the "Top of Form (Sixth Form) Prize and becoming the "Scholar of the Year".
Robert K. A. Gardiner (1934) took the Classics and the Dyce-Sharpe Essay Prizes, and Ebenezer Laing (1948) the Mathematics and the English Prizes. B. C. L. Odei (1941) and J.A.K. Quartey (1943) won both the Classics and the Mathematics Prizes, while l. R. Aboagye (1952) collected the Greek and Mathematics Prizes. Earlier in 1930, C. E. Graves who had won the Prize for Classics went on to win the Mathematics Prizes in 1931. Similarly, Albert Hammond took the Greek Prize in 1931 and that for Mathematics in 1932. A. A. Y. Kyerematen won the Dyce-Sharpe Essay Prize for two years running in 1935 and 1936.
The Latin and Greek scholars (i.e. those students who won both the Hare's Classics and Hamlyn Greek Prizes at the same time) include, apart from J. A. Boateng (1935), G. M. Pitcher (1936-37) and C. C. Lokko (1946) mentioned above, S. E. Grant (1940) C. K. Annan (1942) P, E. Archer (1944) J. H. Sackey (1945) J. M. A. Sackeyfio (1948) E. A. B. Mayne (1949) M. J. Anaman (1956) I. J. Kumi (1957) G. Adeleye (1958) and S. G. Amoo (1960).
In the competitions, organised under the new "dispensation", N. T. Quao (1958) J. T. Anim (1959) and S. N. Assimeh (1964) were winners of both the Science and French Prizes. G. A. Wilson-Tagoe (1957) and K. A. Sampson (1967) took both the English and French Prizes.
Mathematics was a subject that proved to be difficult to tackle for many of us at school then. But there was one particular student, A. M. L.. Taylor, who was great in that subject, for he had a knack for solving difficult and abtruse mathematical problems and riddles with the ease of a duck taking to water! `Attu' as he was affectionately called, won the Fisher's Mathematics Prize in grand style in 1938. So was J. Aggrey-Mensah who took the prize in 1958. (The names of winners of the various prizes of the School are listed in the Appendix VI)
The original prizes, it should be noted, were named after the Founder and the earlier headmasters of the School, who specialised in the subjects in question. The donor of the English Essay Prize, Dr. N. A. Dyce-Sharpe, was an expatriate Medical Officer of Health in charge of the Cape Coast Hospital in the 1930's. He was a popular figure in the social life of the town and besides being a friend and benefactor of the School, he took keen interest in its progress and in the welfare of the students.
The changes in the nomenclatures of the prizes were necessitated by circumstances, so as to reflect the needs of the changing times, though the underlying objectives for the institution of the prizes remain essentially the same.
Naturally, to most senior students of the School, in our days those prized laurels were well worth striving for; and to be able to will one or more of those prizes was the ambition of many a student who aspired to be a scholar of the School. As should be expected, in my last year at the School, along with my class-mates. I entered the competition for the Hare's Classics Prize, as I seemed then to have developed a flair for the Classics. With the idea of winning the Prize in view, I worked hard, hoping that I would achieve that aim. But much as I tried hard. I could not succeed for we, the other prize aspirants, were beaten by a fellow class-mate, who seemed to have been born with a `golden spoon' in his mouth and had Classics (and Greek too!) at his fingertips! That lucky fellow is now the distinguished Judge of Appeal Mr. Justice P.E.N.K. Archer, LLB. (Hons) who is also Chairman of the Law Reform Commission and of the Archer Committee on the Cocoa Marketing Board! And so ended my last determined but unsuccessful bid to win the coveted Classics Prize, inspired by the motto of the School House-Quaque-to which I belonged: Pugnate Summa Vi!
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Fruits of Education
Aristotle once said that "the roots of education are bitter but the fruits are sweet". The close application to studies and purposeful research, often tiresome and laborious and the successes and achievements of many Old Boys of Adisadel in many fields, over the years justify this axiomatic truth. Thanks to the experiences and skills as well as the efficiency and successes of the past students; Adisadel has maintained a tradition of scholarship of a high order, that inspires confidence and gives satisfaction not only to the Old Boys themselves but also to the School. In the field of sports, the reputation of Adisadel is, of course proverbial.
At the beginning, the School prepared candidates for the London College of Preceptors Examinations, in which the few existing secondary schools in British West Africa, including Mfantsipim (their Richmond College) the oldest secondary school for boys in this country, took part. These were in three stages-Preliminary, Junior and Senior and were taken at six-monthly intervals at the least. In those examinations the School then known as S.P.G. Grammar School, did extremely well, setting, at the first shot, a record for West Africa that stood the test of time.
The College of Preceptors Examinations eventually gave way to the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate Examinations conducted by the Cambridge Examinations Syndicate. The examinations were held in two stages, the Junior Cambridge Examinations and the Senior Cambridge School Leaving Certificate Examinations. The former was intended mainly for candidates in the Fourth Form and served as a prelude to the latter which were taken by students in the Sixth Form at the end of the Secondary School career. Similarly, candidates presented by the School in those examinations excelled themselves and several records were set in various subjects particularly in the classics. The School thus built up an enormous reputation for the classics; and indeed Adisadel became famous for the outstanding classical scholars it produced in the country.
Records
It is interesting to recall that in 1925, a remarkable student of the School - Mathias Y. Anthony - set a brilliant record in the Cambridge School Certificate Examinations. The record stands unsurpassed to the present day. Dr. I. S. Ephson, Ph.D., Barrister-at-Law, in his Gallery of Gold Coast Celebrities, (1632-1958) referring to this great scholar of the School, has recorded of him at page 133 footnote as follows:
"In 1925, one, Mathias Anthony, an Ewe partly from Keta and partly from Lome, passed the Cambridge School Certificate examinations at Adisadel College (then St. Nicholas Grammar School) Cape Coast, offering Mathematics, English, French, German, Latin, Greek and other subjects. He thus gained exemption from Oxford and London University entrance requirements as well. His record, in a sense, has up till today not been beaten by any scholar either in Africa or elsewhere." This fine scholar who was the Head Prefect of the School in 1925, rose to become a distinguished physician in his life time. Earlier in 1923, G. G. Asafu-Adjaye, a student of the School had passed the Cambridge Senior School Certificate examination creditably, obtaining complete exemption from London Matriculation, the first student to score such a distinction in the country.
Exemptions
As evidence of good performances and satisfying certain requirements, successful candidates in the Cambridge Senior School Certificate Examinations usually gained complete exemptions from what were then known as `London Matriculation', `Cambridge Previous', and the `Oxford Responsions'. Formerly, it was only at Adisadel College that students could graduate with exemption from Oxford Responsions in addition to London Matriculation and Cambridge Previous. These privileges enabled candidates so qualified to be formally admitted as registered students of those Universities. This meant, in practice, that candidates so privileged were exempted from the preliminary examinations leading to the B.A. (or B.Sc.) degrees in the Universities of London, Cambridge or Oxford. Candidates could then proceed straight to read in their chosen fields of study for the next qualifying examinations (i.e. the Inter-B.A. or Inter B.Sc. as the case may be) either as external students (in the case of London University) or internal students at Oxford or Cambridge. At Oxford the first examination for the B.A. degree is referred to as "Mods" (short for moderations).
Until 1948, there was no university of any kind in the country, though Achimota College provided courses of studies leading up to the London University external examinations in the intermediate and final arts and science. Private students intent on pursuing university education in the country had to do so mostly through correspondence courses provided by tutorial institutions in Britain (e.g. Wosley Hall, University Correspondence College, Rapid Results College) for various degrees in the arts and sciences and for other professional and social studies. Alternatively, many of the students had to go overseas to further their studies. Some of the country's graduates in those days obtained their first degrees locally in this way.
Indeed, Adisadel College set fine examples of diligent application to studies in this respect, for some of the old boys on the staff of the School, managed through self-help to win academic degrees for themselves, which reflected favourably on the School. In most cases, they initially read as external students of the University of London, before proceeding overseas for post-graduate studies.
It is on record that in 1926 an old boy of the School who was then a student of the University College, London - E. O. Asafu-Adjaye - won the coveted "Profumo Prize" for being the best scholar in Law at the University, following the results of the Final Bar (LLB) examinations that year. This splendid achievements, among several others, served to inspire other African scholars to embark on intensive studies in law and in medicine, and also to enter other fields of specialisation in various overseas universities. Many a Jason was thus induced to go overseas in search of, and bring home, the fabled "Golden Fleece".
Following the attainment of independence, the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate Examinations gave way to the West African School Certificate Examinations and the General Certificate of Education, Ordinary and Advanced Levels (G.C.E. "O" and G.C.E. "A" levels) Examinations respectively. The West African School Certificates have also their equivalent in the G.C.E. `O' and `A' levels Certificates.
The West African School Certificates or the G.C.E. `O' level examinations are normally taken by Fifth Form students in the secondary schools. The G.C.E. `A' level is designed for Fifth Formers who have passed the `O' level examinations and have satisfied the basic requirements which entitled them to proceed to the Sixth Form Courses in preparation for the university. These courses, of two years duration, are run in a number of selected secondary schools, in the country, equipped with the necessary facilities for the purpose. Generally, three advanced level subjects are offered in the arts, mathematics and science departments. Passes in two or three such subjects constitute good performances, and qualify the successful candidates for entry to the university. The G.C.E `A' level certificate is more or less at par with the Cambridge Higher School Certificate, which formerly exempted a candidate from the London University Intermediate B. A. examinations.
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Successes
The School's record of successes in these examinations are, perhaps, too well-known to need mention here; but it suffices to cite one or two instances to give a fair assessment of the general performances of the School.
In 1968, for example, Adisadel presented 13 candidates from the Sixth Form Arts Department for the G.C.E. `A' level examination. All the candidates passed. Significantly, none of the candidates obtained one pass and none failed in any subject. Ten obtained three passes, and the remaining three obtained two passes. Besides, all the eight Students who took English passed, as did all the four candidates examined in French; the three candidates in Geography and all the eleven who took economics also passed.
Similarly, 10 candidates from the Mathematics Department presented for the G.C.E `A' level examination in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Physics, were all successful. The passes were distributed as follows - one passed in two subjects, eight in all the three subjects and one in all the four subjects. The obvious significance of these results is that all the candidates passed well and more than satisfied the university entry requirements.
In the Science Department, of the 25 candidates who sat for the `A' level examination, twenty-three were successful - eight passed in three subjects, nine in two subjects and six in one subjects. In all, 17 of the 25 candidates passed well enough to satisfy the university entry requirements. The high level of performances in the examinations is reflected in the fact that eight distinctions were obtained in the various subjects, distributed in this way: one in History, one in Geography, one in Biology, two in Mathematics and three in Physics.
In the G.C.E. `O' level the results were no less outstanding. Although candidates have a choice of eight subjects at the most, a pass in one subject qualifies a candidate for a certificate. To obtain a good certificate however, a candidate must have at least four or more passes. Out of the 100 candidates presented by the School for that examination in 1968, 96 obtained certificates - seventy (70) passed in four or more subjects to qualify for good certificates. In all, 22 distinctions were secured in the various subjects.
In the West African School Certificate Examinations for 1962, no less than 40 per cent of the large number of candidates presented by the School obtained Grade One Certificates. In 1975. over 60 per cent of the Advanced Level candidates gained admission to the Universities. The break-down of the `A' level and `O' level examinations results are as follows: Eighty-two (82) out of the 84 candidates presented for the `A' Level passed. Of this number 49 obtained three passes; 23, two passes and 10, one pass. Five of the candidates did outstandingly well, each gaining `Excellent' and `Very Good' marks in their respective science subjects, that is, in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology as well as in geography and the general paper. In the `O' level examination, 94 per cent of the 133 candidates passed, 61 gained Grade One Certificates including nine (9) distinctions. In the 1978 examinations all the 141 candidates for the G.C.E. `O' level passed, six obtained distinctions and 40, Grade One certificates. In the G.C.E. `A' level, 57 out of the 63 candidates presented passed, 43 of them qualifying for entry into a university.
These results constitute creditable performances, a continuation of the unbroken chain of academic successes chalked up by the School over the years. There is no royal road to learning other than hard work. A former headmaster of the School has aptly summed up the spirit behind the School's examination successes in this witty way: "five per cent inspiration and 95 per cent perspiration."
As a result of the excellent academic achievements of the School in the G.C.E. `A' level Examinations each year, an increasing number of students from Adisadel gain admission to our respective universities at Legon, Kumasi and Cape Coast, (including, of course, our Medical Schools) to pursue various courses of studies, among them medicine, and dentistry.
Scholarship Awards etc.
In respect of Scholarship awards for advanced studies overseas, fellowship and study tours, the School continues to secure a fair share. In 1968 for example, out of the 11 scholarships for university studies in the U.S.A. Adisadel College won five. The scholarships were offered to Ghana by the Universities Association of the U.S.A., and the selections were based strictly on merit or individual academic performance, followed by rigid interviews. In fact, an Adisadel boy topped the list in the scholarship competition organised for the purpose and there were seven Adisadel boys among the best 24 candidates. The winners had the opportunity of pursuing various courses of studies including Physics, Applied Mathematics and Pure Mathematics at such reputable universities in the U.S.A. as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Connecticut.
Adisadel College also won two of the five fellowships offered by the U.S. Government in that year. The fellowships were designed to offer an opportunity to Ghanaian teachers to teach in American public schools, so as to facilitate the exchange of ideas and ideals and also to enable the youth of America to gain some insight into aspects of Ghanaian life, tradition and culture. The two winners of the awards - P. M. Onumah and B. K. Mbroh - were Old Boys then on the staff of the School. The fine opportunity offered them to teach and make friends with a cross-section of the youth of America and acquaint themselves with the way of life in America enabled the recipients to project Ghana more effectively in the U.S.A. In this way, they helped to promote understanding and crystalised the bond of friendship and cordial relations between the two countries.
It is of interest also to record that when the competitive examinations for promotion to the grade of Executive Officer was introduced in the Civil Service, an Adisadel Old Boy - E. Hornsby-Odoi - topped the list of successful candidates in the initial examination. He afterwards won a government scholarship to Britain to pursue a degree course in Town Planning. At the end of the course, he also won the Silver Medal of the Town Planning Institute for producing the best Thesis in any recognised school in the Commonwealth. The scholar who rose to become Senior Lecturer in Town Planning at the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, is now Managing Director of the Tema Development Corporation.
Earlier, when the Colonial Government instituted a training scheme for the Junior Civil Servants in the 1940's to prepare them for higher positions in the service, K. B. Ayensu, an Old Santaclausian, was one of the three candidates selected for university education in the United Kingdom. He went up to Hertford College, Oxford in 1943 and subsequently graduated B.A. in the Honour School of Jurispudence. "K.B." held various posts of responsibility in the Civil Service and rose to become Clerk of the National Assembly. He ended his career in the Civil Service as Chief of State Protocol with the rank of an Ambassador. Kojo Ayensu is now Chairman of the Board Directors of the Electricity Corporation of Ghana (ECG) and a member of the National Council for Higher Education.
Of the second batch of three candidates who similarly benefited from overseas university education under the scheme, two were Old Boys of Adisadel - E. R. Hayford and S. E. Grant - both of whom read for the B.Sc. (Econ.) of the University of London.
These two beneficiaries had varied careers in the Civil Service. The former rose to the rank of Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Industries and the latter to that of Regional Chief Administrative Officer of the Eastern Region, a position equivalent to a Principal Secretary. The other Government scholars are: S. C. A. Chinery M.V., M.A., former Deputy Head of the Civil Service, J. M. Akita, M.A. (Cantab.) former Chief Archivist, now Senior Lecturer, Department of Library and Archival Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, B.C.L. Odei, B.Sc., (Econ,) who became Managing Director of the State Gold Mining Corporation and later of the Ghana Airways Corporation, S. E. Eshun, M.A., LLB., Barrister-at-Law, formerly of the Ministry of Justice. J. IC. Apakli, B.A., (Oxon.), (deceased) J. Aggrey-Mensah, B.Sc, (Eng. Hons.), Chief Engineer. Post and Telecommunications Corporation, among others.
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Notable Achievements
The Sekyi brothers deserve mention here for their individual academic brilliance. Kweku Sekyi, B.A., LLB., Barrister-at-Law scored a `First' in Philosophy at Cork, Ireland and a 'Double First' in his bar examinations as a member of the King's Inns, while Henry Van Hein Sekyi also took a First Class B.A., (Hons.), degree in Classics at Legon (then in special relationship with London University) and then followed up at Cambridge where he also tool-, First Class Honours Classical Tripos Part I. In the Part II however, he just missed his usual `First.' Van Hein Sekyi is probably the first student at Legon to win a First in Classics at the erstwhile University College of the Gold Coast now the University of Ghana. K. A. Sekyi, LL.B., the youngest (popularly called "Chief") also excelled himself in law as did his elder brother before him. It is remarkable that Kofi Amenyi Sekyi (the eldest) and Kweku Anu Sekyi (the elder) were brilliant scholars in Mathematics both won the Fisher's Mathematics Prizes for 1939 and 1940 respectively. Besides, Van-Hein Sekyi is a talented musician and has the singular honour of delivering the Silver Jubilee Lectures of the University of Ghana, organised under the auspices of the University Alumni Association in 1974. Van Hein Sekyi is now Ghana Permanent Representative to the United National and currently Vice-President of the UN Economic and Social Council and was the former Ghana High Commissioner to Britain. K.A. Sekyi is also at present the Chief State Attorney of the Attorney General's Department of the Ministry of Justice.
These brilliant scholars are no other than the sons of the late redoubtable W. E. G. Sekyi, M.A. (London), Barrister-at-Law one of the 'Faithful Eight' of Mfanstipim School, who was popularly known as Kobina Sekyi of the erstwhile Gold Coast Aborigines Rights Protection Society's fame and who apart from being an eminent barrister in his day, was also a brilliant scholar, statesman and patriot. The Sekyis are, naturally, as valiant as they are erudite and scholarly.
Lieutenant-General Okatakyie Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa, C.V., D.S.O., Hon. LL.D., was a brilliant all-round scholar at Adisadel, and later, while studying as an officer cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he showed up well, and his performances at the course, brought great honour to the School, the Ghana Army and the country generally when he took an enviable position in the final examinations. He was listed among the best three of those cadets (drawn from various parts of the Commonwealth and other countries) who graduated and passed out as Second-Lieutenant after the course.
Akwasi Afrifa, when then a Major ill the Ghana Army, played a key and decisive role, in the 1965 Coup d'etat that marked a turning point in the history of Ghana He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General and Chairman of the three-man Presidential Commission during the regime of the National Liberation Council (NLC) which prepared the country for a return to civilian rule in 1969.
In recognition of his valour, the Asanteman Council in 1970, bestowed on him the title of Okatakyie i.e. "The Gallant One", a special title of honour in Akan Society bestowed on a leader (warrior) who exhibits exceptional courage or performs daring acts of bravery in battle to save his people from the iron heels of tyranny or from annihilation by the enemy. The University of Ghana for its part, conferred on him the honorary doctorate degree of LLD.
General Afrifa, the author of "The Ghana Coup 1966," was keenly interested in the concept Of Rural Development and was tireless in his efforts to give practical meaning to his innovative idea. On his retirement from active public service, he settled down to farming in his estate at Okatakyiekrom originated by him as a model farmstead where he engaged himself in the rearing of sheep and cultivation of food crops particularly maize on a large scale, a clear demonstration of 'Self- Reliance.' Of course, many other Old Boys of Adisadel College have emerged as "the first or with the first" to chalk up distinction in the academic and other fields. The following may be mentioned in support of this observation.
Albert Hammond was the first external student in Ghana to obtain the London University B.A. (Hons.) degree in Classics entirely by private study; so was Dr. C. A. Ackah, who took the M.A. degree and later the Ph.D., in Sociology and Moral Philosophy respectively. At Oxford, Prof. William E. Abraham, who became Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, obtained the M.A., B. Phil. degrees of that ancient University. He had the distinction of being the first full-blooded African to be admitted a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford and thus achieve a great name as a scholar for both his country and his Alma Mater. Prof. Abraham who is now at Stanford University California, U.S.A. is an active member of the Institute of Greek Philosophy and Science Council for Philosophical Studies, an influential Philosophical set-up in the U:S.A. Among his numerous works is "The Mind of Africa" published in 1962. Mr. Justice Enoch Edusei also earned the B.C.L., another coveted postgraduate degree at Oxford. He had previously graduated LLB. (Hons.) at the University of Leeds England in 1955 winning the coveted Hughes Law Prize in the attempt.
Another achievement at Oxford worthy of mention is that of Kwa O. Hagan who, at an advanced age, had the distinction of being admitted (without a previous degree) under special `Dispensation' to proceed on a research study, under the auspices of the Faculty of Social Studies, and succeeded in obtaining the coveted post-graduate degree of Bachelor of Letters - B. Litt. (Oxon.). Dr. Charles Van Dyck also achieved no mean feat at Oxford where he took the B. Litt. and D. Phil. degrees and in addition won the Oxford Blue, a most coveted sports accolate at that famous university.
At Cambridge, Prof. J. A. K. Quartey, F.R.I.C., a Fellow of Churchill College, took the M.A., and Ph.D., in Natural Science, specialising in Organic Chemistry and is the first African ever to be elected a Fellow at Cambridge. He is a Chemistry Professor at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Then, there is Prof. Ebenezer Laing the noted botanist and genetician, now the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, who took the Ph. D. at Cambridge after graduating B.Sc., Special (London). Mention must here also be made of the Prof. J. S. Pobee, of the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Ghana, who took his B.A. and M.Litt., at Cambridge, having earlier graduated B.D., (Lond.).
Another Santaclausian who must not escape notice is Prof. E. N. W., Oppong who took the M.R.C.V.S. at Cambridge in addition to B.V.S.C. & AH., Ph. D (Dub.), DTVM (Edinburgh) Prof. Oppong specialises in Animal Science and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Legon.
That the "Adisadel Spirit" can, to speak literally, `propel' Santaclausians to "do exploits" to the extent of seeking adventure elsewhere, breaking new grounds and achieving successes even in unusual places is now an established fact. Thus, in the late 1940s, an Old Santaclausian, Eric G. K. Adjorlolo M.Sc., B.F.A., one of the fine 1941 class of scholars at Adisadel, in his arduous quest for higher education in the U.S.A., braved all odds and eventually emerged not only as the first African to obtain the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Columbia University School of Painting and Sculpture but also the first graduate from Ghana to do advanced courses in Jounalism at that famous American University.
This attempt earned him as well as the M.Sc., in Journalism and Mass-Communication - a rarely beaten track in those days! One - time Deputy Director-General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Eric is currently the O.A.U. Permanent Representative to Equatorial Guinea, resident in Malabo.
At this juncture, tribute must be paid to the memory of two other outstanding Santaclausian scholars who have sad to say passed away.
One was the late Dr. A. A. Y. Kyerematen, the inspirer, founder, and first director of the National Cultural Centre described as "the bastion and shrine of Ghana's cultural heritage" and the Zoo at Kumasi. This was a great national project to which he devoted all his talents and energy, after his return from Oxford. Dr. Kyerematen was much encouraged in this great endeavour by the late Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Agyeman Prempeh II, K.B.E.
Among Dr. Kyerematen's numerous works, his colourful book - PANOPLY OF GHANA - is almost a complete encyclopedia of Ghanaian culture with particular reference to the traditional regalia of the various chiefs of Ghana, the symbols of chieftaincy around which the culture of the country is largely woven.
Dr. Kyerematen was at one time Town Clerk of the Kumasi City Council subsequently becoming Commissioner for Local Government and later Chairman of the Council of the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. His life was characterised by selflessness, simplicity and devotion to national duty.
The other was Prof. A. M. L. Taylor, M.A., D. Phil,. (Oxon) F.R.A.S who made his name as an outstanding mathematics lecturer at the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
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Old Boys In Other Specialised Fields
It is significant that since the emphasis was shifted from Classics to Science at Adisadel barely two decades ago, the School has made impressive strides in the field of science. Students of the School usually develop a flair for the study of the various branches of science, thanks to facilities available at the School. A tradition in science studies has thus been established in the School in just the same way as was the case in the study of the Classics in the past. Several Old Boys of Adisadel are specialists holding not only various high professional qualifications, particularly in the medical and engineering science, but also occupy responsible positions in various fields. For instance, in the field of Water Resources, Adisadel has C. K. Annan B.Sc. (Eng.). D.I.C., F.I.C.E., M.I.W.E:, F.Gh.I.E., formerly Managing Director of Ghana Water and Sewerage Corporation (GWSC) who master-mined the gigantic Water and Sewerage Disposal Scheme for the Accra/Tema metropolitan area, the first phase of which he saw through successfully before his retirement. E. Adjei-Kufuor, B.Sc., (Civil) M.I.C.E., M.I.P.H.E. M.I.H.E. A.M.I.Mn.E. M.Gh.I.E., an experienced civil engineer heads the Water Project Division of GWSC now engaged in various water project in the country.
In the electrical engineering field, Adisadel also has E. Q. Hayfron-Acquah, B.Sc., (Eng.) C. Eng., F.Gh.I.E., M.I.E.E., formerly Chief Electrical Engineer of the Electricity Department (the last of the tribe) and the first Managing Director of the Electricity Corporation of Ghana now Resident Director, West Africa and Managing Director of Kabel Medals (Ghana) Limited, Tema, K. A. Duker B.Sc. (Eng.) M.I.E.E., F.Gh.I.E., Managing Director of Electricity Corporation of Ghana and A. O. El Alawa, B.Sc., (Eng) F.Gh.I.E., former Accra City Engineer now head of the newly created Central Technical Directorate of the Ministry of Local Government, not to mention W. E. Coleman, G.M., M.B.E., B.Sc., (Eng.) D.E., F.Gh.I.E., F.I.E.E., first Ghanaian Director-General of Broadcasting who is now Telecommunications Specialist for Africa, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia among several others. Post and Telecommunications Engineering is another field in which Old Boys of Adisadel are holding their own. Peter Bawuah B.Sc.., (Eng.) M.E.I.C., etc. is Director of Engineering in charge of Internal Telecommunications Service (ITS) at the Post Telecommunications Corporation and his deputy, J. E. Sampson-Davis, B.Sc., (Eng.) M.Gh.I.E., is in charge of System Planning. J. Aggrey-Mensah, B.Sc., Hons. (Eng.), M.Gh.I.E., Chief Engineer has made a name of himself as the inventor of a highly sensitive Underground Telephone Cable Theft Detection System now installed at the Tema Post Office.
The Volta River Authority (VRA) is responsible for the Operations of the gigantic Volta River Hydro-Electric Power Dam and related project, seems also to have become the "magnetic field" for Old Santaclausians with specialised skills. Apart from Mr. Justice Enoch Edusei, L.L.B. (Leeds) B.C.L. (Oxon.) Justice of Appeal, who is Chairman of the Authority, Dr. L. K. A. Derban, M.B., Ch. B., D. P. H., D. I. H., D.T.M. & H., is Chief Medical Officer; L. Casely-Hayford, B.Sc. (Eng), F.Ch.I.E., Deputy Chief Executive (Engineering) E. Nanka-Bruce, B.Sc. (Eng.) M.Gh.I.E.. Director of Power Operations: F.V.L. Laryea, Director of Personnel, C.A. Nelson, Town Planning Manager and Joe Daniels, Senior Accounts Officer, among others.
Then, in the sphere of Road Transport, Nana Fredua Mensah G.M., F.C.I.T., N.G.I.M. is Managing Director of the Omnibus Services Authority responsible for the country's internal and international bus services. M. K. Aifah, M.C.I.T., General Manager of State Transport Corporation, and his Chief Engineer, C. W. Tachie-Menson A.M.I.M.I., Traffic Manager, E. K. Anyim and Personnel Manager, Isaac D. Dickson A.C.C.A., all stand in a class by themselves in this field. L. Bakers-Woode sees to the transport service of the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board.
There are also many graduate and professionally qualified pharmacists who are Old Santaclausians serving in key positions. Prominent among them are: Martin S. Donkor, Ph.C., M.P.S., M.I. Pharm. M., M. Inst. Pkg. (UK) Pharmaceutical/Production Director, J. L. Morrison Sons and Jones (Ghana) Limited, J. Pearce-Biney, B. Pharm. (Glas.) Ph.C., M.P.S., M.I. Pharm. M., Pharmacy Merchandise Comptroller and T. O. Hutton-Mills, Ph.C., M.P.S., M.I. Pharm. M., Pharmacy Sales Manager, both of Kingsway Stores Division of U.A.C. (Ghana) Limited, T. E. C. Sagoe, Ph.C., M.P.S., M.I. Pharm. M., former Chief Pharmacist and M.A. Akiwumi, MPS etc. Supervising Pharmacist both of the Ministry of Health. Interestingly, Pearce-Biney, is the Director-Secretary of the Institute of Pharmacy Management International (Ghana Branch) and Ghana's representative on the Council of West African Pharmaceutical Federation. He served on the Ghana delegation to the 31st World Health Organsnisation (WHO) Assembly held at Geneva, Switzerland in May 1978. The Assembly deliberated on the issues of Drugs, among other things.
Tom Sagoe, now Managing Director of Netherlands African Manufacturing Company Limited (NAMCO) also served as Ghana's representative on the Narcotics Commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. He is currently a member of the Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association of the United States of America.
Chartered Accountancy and Auditing are yet other fields in which several Old Santaclausians have established themselves. For example, K. E. Woode, F.C.C.A., C.A., A.T.I.L, is Director of K. E. Woode and Company a local firm of Chartered Accountants and Auditors, so is S. K. B. Taylor, A.C.C.A,. F.C.A., C.A. Director of Kobina Taylor and Company. A. A. Adjei, A.C.C.A., Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax sees to the country's income tax operations while J.B.H. Coleman, C. J. Otoo and William Brown, as Directors of Audit in the Auditor-General's Department keep sharp eyes on the nation's accounts and ensure that public funds are - properly accounted for at all times. J. S. Haizel, A.C.C.A. of Deloitte and Company, Chartered Accountants, among others, similarly deals with the accounts of various private companies and corporations in the country.
Then coming to the field of sports and physical culture, prominent sports personalities, past and present who are Old Santaclausians can be mentioned: In the 1960's when Ghana was on the ascendency as the "Soccer Champions of Africa", Nana Fredua Mensah was Chairman of the Ghana Football Association and one-time Executive Member of the African Football Confederation (AFC). Mr. Justice I. R. Aboagye has now stepped into his shoes as Chairman of tile Ghana Football Association (GFA) which has the task of developing soccer at various levels in the country in particular, building up the national team, the Black Stars, effectively for all international encounters. The present Executive-Chairman of the Sports Council of Ghana and General Secretary of the National Olympic Committee (NOC), R. T. Orleans-Pobee is a qualified Physical Education Specialist (Jordan Hill, Glasgow) so is the director of Physical Education and Culture at the Ministry of Education and Culture, S. A. Nelson, who was a plucky athlete and head prefect of the School in 1949. Sam Nelson has, for several years, been the Chairman of the Ghana Amateur Athletics Association (GAAA) and H. O. Nyarko., the- National Athletics Coach.
S. L. Ackah-Yensu, yet another colourful sports personality, is well known for his interesting commentaries on soccer in T.V. Sports Programmes. He was formerly Secretary of the Ghana Football Association and Team Manager of the Black Stars, the national soccer team. Ackah-Yensu who is Chief Manager (Administration) of the State Insurance Corporation is the Safohene of Inkum a quarter, of Cape Coast. (Traditionally, `Safohene' is captain of the local militia, of which there are seven at Cape Coast).
Willie Kwarteng, the Editor of "Weekly Spectator", carried the reputation of a champion in the 1950s and set records in the 880 yards race in the inter-schools and colleges sports meetings. He also took part in international athletic competitions and was among the Ghana Sports Contingents to the Commonwealth Games held at Vancouver, Canada, in 1954. He won the Victores Laudorum in 1956.
Dr. Charles Van-Dyck won the enviable accolate "Oxford Blue" at Oxford University being probably the first African ever to win such a distinction in sports at that ancient British University, Incidentally Dr. Van-Dyck; was the head prefect of Adisadel in 1951 and besides he reigned as the Victores Laudorum from 1949 to 1951.
Apart from Orleans-Pobee who was a notable athlete of the School to become a athletics coach and later Headmaster of his Alma Mater (1963-1974) the others were active athletes, head prefects and/or winners of the Victores Laudorum the symbol of fine sporting tradition at Adisadel.
Other Old Santaclausians are active as well in the music and entertainment fields. Frank K. Otchere is well known in the Popular Saturday Morning Radio Programme "Uncle Frank Show" which won for him a UNESCO CITATION in 1976 for his "services to the youth".
Daniel K. Amponsah, popularly known to traditional music lovers as KOO NIMO is an exponent of traditional music based on Akan folklore. He is the leader of the Kumasi Adadam Agofomma traditional music group, whose records and T.V, appearances are hailed by all classes of people in the country. A technologist by profession, Amponsah works in the Department of Bio-Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
Adisadel Scholars dyed in the Primus Vel Cum Primis tradition, will not be complete without Captain J. H. Tachie-Menson, F.C.I.T., M.I.N., who is not only the first Ghanaian to obtain a Master Mariner's Certificate but also the first African to command a merchant vessel on the high seas. The bearded maritime captain is a talented musician and composer and is now the Managing Director of the Black Star Line, Ghana's national shipping company. Another Old Santaclausian, Captain Powis Spencer, an experienced international aviator, pilots the new Ghana Airways DC-9 twin-jet airliner on the West African routes.
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Adisadel's Contribution To National Development
Almost four score years is a relatively short time in the life of an institution but a long one, indeed, a life time in human existence. During those years, however, the School has not only made itself felt but actually contributed its share to the development and progress of the nation in diverse ways.
Over the years, the School has turned out into the world a steady stream of keen, capable young men, filled with enthusiasm and dedicated to the service of the country - men who have contributed and continue to contribute their quota to the enrichment of the life of the nation, in practically all fields of human endeavour, as eminent judges, lawyers, doctors, engineers, chiefs, administrators, civil servants, educationists, economists, agriculturists, company directors, bankers, soldiers, publishers, journalists and writers etc.
The School has produced as well leaders of thought and action. Not a few of the Old Boys have played vital roles in the affairs of the country and helped to shape its destiny. In the earlier movements for constitutional reforms, there are records of Old Santaclausians who, were influential. Dr. J. W. de Graft Johnson, Chas Sagoe, J. C. Fry and C. F. Hayfron-Benjamin, for instance, were among the compatriots of their day who were in the thick of the fight for constitutional reform for the country. Dr. de Graft-Johnson and Hayfron-Benjamin both seasoned barristers intelligently and effectively employed the medium of the press that is, the might of the pen, to the advantage of the country.
At certain stages in the constitutional history of the country, in the 1940's and 1950's new breed of active leaders of thought and action dominated the political scene. They were among the influential members of the Legislative Council, the country's law-making body. These included such notable figures as the late Nana Amanfi III, C.B.E., Omanhene of Asebu; Nana Sir Tsibu Darku X Kt.. O.B.E. Omanhene of Assin Attandaso, Nene Azzu Mate-Kole O.B.E., Konor of Manya Krobo. Odumase, Dr. I. B. Asafu-Adjaye, and the late Sir Edward O. Asafu-Adjaye, Kt.all Old Santaclausians. Sir Tsibu and Dr. Asafu-.Adjaye were also then members of the Governor's Executive Council. Their incisive but well-reasoned arguments enriched the debates of the Council and influenced the policy and direction of affairs. This helped to accelerate the pace of constitutional reform in the country.
At the height of the struggle for `Self-Government Now' spearheaded by the Convention People's Party (C.P.P.) led by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, of blessed memory a core of redoubtable Old Boys of Adisadel emerged among the stalwarts who dared, undeterred by imprisonment and other threats and harassments, to secure independence for the country, and thereafter went on to launch out Ghana on her course as a free, independent and sovereign Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. Popular leaders in the government of the First Republic whose names were household words at that time included K. A. Gbedema, the able Minister of Finance and Kojo Botsio, the Minister of Agriculture, the late Sir-Edward O. Asafu-Adjaye, Minister of Local Government, K. O. Thompson, Minister of Mines and Natural Resources and J. E. Hagan, the Regional Commissioner for the Central Region who are all Old Boys.
When the National Liberation Council (NLC) came to power, Old Santaclausians were not without their places too in the new order. Lt.-Gen A. A. Afrifa was Chairman of the 3-man Presidential Commission that took the country back to civilian rule in 1969. Matthew Poku, (now Otumfuo Nana Opoku Ware II, Asantehene and President of the National House of Chiefs) and David Andoh, Chairman of U.A.C. (Ghana) Limited, both barristers by profession, served as Commissioner for Transport and Communications and Commissioner for Lands and Mineral Resources respectively. The late Dr. A. A. Y. Kyerematen served as Commissioner for Local Government.
The government of the Second Republic (1969 - 1972) headed by the late Dr. K. A. Busia, also brought on the scene, Old Santaclausians. These included Dr. T. A. Aboagye, LLM, (Lond.) Ph.D., (Cantab.) who served as Ministerial Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, and S. K. C. Osei-Baidoo, Ministerial Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development. Casely Osei-Baidoo studied Trade Unionism at Ruskin College, Oxford and was at one time, Trade Union organiser at the erstwhile University College of Gold Coast, B. J. da Rocha LL.B., the first Ghanaian to enroll in the Supreme Court, following the attainment of independence, was the General Secretary of the Progress Party, the party of the government then in power.
In the Supreme Military Council regime, Dr. R. K. A. Gardiner served as Commissioner for Economic Planning, Major Kwame Asante, Commissioner for Transport and Communications and Major Michael Ofori-Akuamoah, Regional Commissioner for Upper Region.
Col. F. G. Bernasko, who also served as Regional Commissioner for the Central Region later moved up as Commissioner for Agriculture, becoming the first Commissioner for Cocoa Affairs before retiring finally to devote himself to his chosen career as a legal practitioner.
E. N. Moore a barrister and advocate of wide experience and practice (who is traditionally, the Oman-Supi of Eberarm in the Ekumfi traditional area) served as Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General during the first three years of the Council's rule. S. H. Annancy, Barrister-at-Law, took up the baton as Regional Commissioner for the Eastern Region, on the last lap of the race to constitutional rule in July 1979.
K. Gyeke-Dako, during his tenure of office as Director of Public Prosecutions successfully led formidable legal brains in the conduct of several cases for the State at the Tribunals and the High Court. Gyeke-Dako is now Legal Adviser to the Ghana Police Force.
The above are some of the ways in which Old Santaclausians have served and continue to serve not only to run the affairs of state in the corridors of power but also to maintain the rule of law to ensure peace and security of the state.
In the exciting process of developing the country and of projecting the image of Ghana abroad since the attainment of independence, a number of Old Boys have played and continue to play important and vital roles as diplomats - High Commissioners and Ambassadors - the country's accredited representatives in other lands (see list of Old Boys who have served Ghana as diplomats later in this book) and as international civil servants some are serving in the United Nations and its specialised agencies not only helping to maintain peace and security in the world at large but also to promote harmony and the well-being of humanity.
Business and Industry
The success stories of Old Santaclausians are however not confined exclusively to the political and academic spheres. They extend to the business and industrial fields as well. In the industrial sphere, W. C. Tandoh has established himself as an industrialist-cum-agriculturalist with a lot of guts and business acumen. With the country's economic development and prosperity at heart, Willie Tandoh has set up a wholly Ghanaian owned, financed and managed companies of a complex nature at Tema.
The industrial complex of which he is the Executive Chairman - The West Coast Group of Companies - incorporates a Spinning, Dyeing and Solid Construction Companies with extensive Cotton Farms constituting a regular source of raw materials not only for the Spinning Factory itself but also other textile factories and 'Kente' weaving industries in the country. A pilot livestock project is also in progress.
This incorporated group of companies is a splendid example of Self-Reliance which forms the basis of the country's economic and agricultural policies and gives, as well, a practical interpretation of the "Operation Feed Yourself and Your Industries" Programmes. The scope and importance of this great enterprise to the economy of Ghana is reflected in the fact that in September 1975, the West Coast Group of Companies was formally commissioned by General I. K. Acheampong (as he then was) the former Head of State and Chairman of the Supreme Military Council at a colourful ceremony in the presence of distinguished guests from all walks of life. Willie Tandoh is certainly playing a pivotal rule in the economic life of the country and deserves the support and co-operation of all fellow Old Santaclausians. His singular efforts reflect creditably on the Adisadel Spirit of Self Help and should inspire and motivate other Old Santaclausians to dare and accomplish similar ventures for the development and progress of the country.
The School with the support of the Old Boys extends to Willie Tandoh and the Management of West Coast Group of Companies of which he is the Executive-Chairman sincere gratitude and thanks for the splendid - gift of 5,000.00 cedis (five thousand cedis) for the equipment of the School's Science Laboratory, in addition to undertaking to sponsor the setting up of a Trade School, to serve as a Vocational/Technical Department of Adisadel College. Santaclausians are in duty bound to help, in every way possible, to realise this needful project for the School.
I. B. Phillips, another enterprising Old Boy has been tireless in his efforts towards promoting the economic development of the country. As an astute industrialist and companies' director, Isaac Phillips has had wide and varied business experiences and interests. His ventures have included transport and bulk haulage services, estate agency, metal works, imports and exports and laundry. The Wiseway Cleaners Limited, a subsidiary of Development Consortium of which he is the Executive Director, serves as industrial launderers and provides efficient laundry services to educational institutions including the University of Ghana, and various other bodies. `Buck' as he is popularly called, is largely a self-made man. And like Willie Tandoh, his altruism and public-spritedness are praise worthy. J. W. Quashie, also an Old Santaclausian, is managing the City Laundries Limited, a dry cleaning company operating in Accra. He was formerly Deputy-Director, Post and Telegraphs Department. Other Old Santaclausians to reckon with in the local business field include Cyprian Nkansah and E.K. Osei, both general contractors. David Andoh is Chairman of the giant Anglo-Ghanaian firm, U.A.C. (Ghana) Limited.
The Learned Professions
Adisadel is fairly well represented in the learned professions. In terms of popularity and sheer numbers, there appears to be a predominance of Old Santaclausians in the legal profession to the extent of literally "swamping" the Ghana Bench and Bar. In the Judicial Service itself, for instance, Adisadel is represented on the Bench by no less than three Justices of Appeal and about four High Court Judges, besides a number of Circuit Court Judges and top-grade State Attorneys, at the Attorney Generals Department headed by a Director of Public Prosecutions who is himself an Old Santaclausian.
It is remarkable that Adisadel has produced some of the legal luminaries of the country. Among the earlier generation of barristers and advocates were Dr. J. W. de Graft Johnson, M.A., D.C.L., Koi O. Larbi, M.A., B.C.L., one-time Judge of the Supreme Court, C. F. Hayfron-Benjamin, B.A., LL.B., and Sir Edward O. Asafu-Adjaye, B.A., LL.B., the first Ashanti barrister who had also the distinction of being the first African ever to win the coveted "Profumo Prize" for being the best scholar in law in the Final Bar examinations of the University of London in 1926, an achievement that did Ghana then the Gold Coast proud.
Sir Edward, one of the few elder statesmen in his time, served creditably in various spheres of our national life. He was one-time Minister of Local Government, later becoming Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland and received the Knighthood for distinguished service to the Commonwealth.
Notable among the present generation of barristers is K. Gyeke-Dako, B.A., LL.B., Dip. International Law. Gyeke-Dako studied law at Southampton London and Cambridge Universities and held several fellowships including the Dag Hammerskjoeld Memorial International Law Fellowship, the United Nations Fellowship in International Law and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law Fellowship. He is the author of, among others, "Economic Sanctions under the United Nations" which deals with economic sanctions as an instrument for enforcing obedience to the principles and purposes of the United Nations. Incidentally, Gyeke-Dako is known in traditional life as Nana Dako Ampem I, Kyidomhene of Adukrom, Akwapim.
The medical profession is another field in which the number of Old Santaclausians is increasing. In the Teaching Hospitals and especially in the country's medical schools, the Old Boys are a force to reckon with. At the University of Ghana Medical School at Korle Bu, Prof. B. Y. A. Andoh, B.Sc. (Wilberf.) M. A., (Harvard) M.D., DR. rer. nat. (Heidel) a medical scientist, specialises in Bio-Chemistry working special relation to Medicine and Metabolism and is currently working on the isolation and therapeutic uses of drugs prepared from plants from Ghanaian forests. Prof. J. O. M. Pobee, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P. specialises in Cardiology, Dr. K. O. Bentsi-Enchill, M.D., F.R.C.S., D.O., in Opthalmology and Dr. A. R. Sarbah-Yalley, B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.O.G., in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. L. K. A. Derban, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., D.I.H., D.T. M. and H., formerly of the Ghana Medical School now Chief Medical Officer, Volta River Authority also specialises in Occupational Health Therapeutics, among several others.
The teaching profession usually an old beaten track has opened up new vistas of opportunity for fruitful careers for those who have intellectual turn of mind. The scholars are now breaking new grounds as Principals and Headmasters of Training. Colleges and Secondary Schools and as lecturers and professors at the universities. And as in the other spheres, Adisadel has produced an impressive number of university teachers in various disciplines. At Legon, the professors at present are: Dr. Ebenezer Laing. B.Sc., Ph.D., (Botany); Dr. J. A. K. Quartey, M.A., Ph.D., FRIC. (Chemistry); Dr. E. N. W. Oppong, M.R.V.C.S., B.V.S.C. and A.H., Ph.D., D.T.V.M. (Animal Science); Dr. G. S. Asante, B.S.A., Ph.D., (Bio-Chemistry); .J. E. Wiredu, B.A., B.Phil., (Philosophy); J. S. Pobee, B.D., B.A., M.Litt., (Religious Studies); Prof. W. E. Abraham, M.A., B.Phil., (Philosophy) former Vice-Chancellor (now in the United States of America).
The Senior Lecturers include: Dr. G. K. Osei, B.Sc., M.Phil., (Mathematics); Dr. P. G. Lamptey, M.Sc., Ph.D., (Crop Science); Dr. P. K. Twumasi, M.Sc., Ph.D., (Sociology), Dr. G. Adeleye, M.A., Ph.D., (Classics); Dr. K. A. Sampson, M.A., Ph.D., (Modern Languages); Dr. D. B. Ampratwum, M.Sc., Ph.D., (Agricultural Engineering) M. A. Kissi, M.A., (Philosophy); J. M. Akita, M.A., (Archival Studies). At the University of Cape Coast, Dr. R. A. Ampomah, M.Sc., Ph.D., specialises in Mathematics, C. E. Ameyaw-Akumfi, M.Sc., in Zoology, and K. Osafo-Gyirnah, M.A., in Economics. At the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, there are also Old Boys who are lecturers of similar ranks in various fields.
E. A. K. Edzii, B.A. is Registrar of the University of Ghana, Legon; G. M. Pitcher. F.L.A., is Chief Librarian and Head of the Library Service of the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
It is gratifying that one of the old scholars of the School, E. F. Laing (now deceased) a former General Manager of the Anglican Educational Unit, founded the Holy Trinity Cathedral Secondary School, a co-educational day secondary school in Accra to meet the educational need of the Church, and was its first headmaster (1970-75). The school is at present located at the Bishopscourt under the shadow of the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity.
Another new education institution of the Church, a co-educational, Secondary/Commercial/Vocational School at Cape Coast, the Academy of Christ The King, was founded by His Lordship the Bishop of Accra, the Rt. Revd. I. S. M. LeMaire, GM., D.D., himself an Old Boy. The school has also an Old Boy as its first Principal in the person of the Revd. Fr. Robert G. A. Okine, B.Min., M.A., Ed.S.
A number of Old Boys who have retired from the public civil services but are still virile and mentally active continue to Drake their service available to the nation in various fields. Those who are keen on judicial work and in the dispensation of justice are serving as non-professional Magistrates in the Grade II Courts. This class of judicial officers have included H. A. H. S. Grant, J. M. Awotwi, H. L. Aseidu-Akrofi, K. E. Essah, G. J. Tekyi-Mensah, N. S. Thompson, J. B. K. Anane, among others.
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International Service
Old Boys of Adisadel can also be found serving in various international organisations. Apart from the Universities and other institutions of higher education abroad in which several scholars of Adisadel work shoulder to shoulder with their counterparts as professors, deans and heads of departments and faculties, there are many others serving in the various specialised agencies of the United Nations Organisation notably in the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
A few of the Old Boys may be mentioned. H. V. H. Sekyi is Ghana Permanent Representative at the United Nations and currently Vice-President of the UN Economic and Social Council. W.F. Coleman is currently Telecommunications Specialist for Africa at the E.C.A. based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Eric G. K. Adjorlolo is the Permanent Representative of the O.A.U to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea resident in Malabo, Dr. L. K. A. Derban, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., D.I.H., D.T.M., and H. Chief Medical officer Volta River Authority one of the few Ghanaian Occupational Health Specialists in the country serves on the Expert Advisory Panel of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. N. A. deHeer. M.B.. B.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., D.T.M. and H., D.P.H., A.K.C., F.R.S.H., F.W.A.C.P., Dip. Nutr. is the Executive-Director of the West African Health Community, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. M. A. Bentil, M.P.A., is in the service of the United Nations at its headquarters in New York, U.S.A., and is the head of the Organisation and Management Services in the Public Administration and Finance Division of that world body. Willie L. Laast, B.A., L. Dip. Ed. (Lond). F.R. Econ. S., formerly of the Education Department and later Department of Social Welfare and Community Development is Associate Director of the American Peace Corps Volunteers in Ghana and is the first African to hold such a position in an American establishment in Africa.
Dr. R. K. A. Gardiner, M.A., (Cantab.), B.Sc., Econ. (Lond.), has achieved eminence as an international civil servant and an economist of repute. He is best known for his work as Executive-Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) a position which he held for over 12 years. Dr. Gardiner served during the forties as Area Specialist at the Trusteeship Division of the United Nations Secretariat in New York and during the Congo crisis of 1962, he was appointed Personal Representative of Dag Hammerskjoeld the then UN Secretary-General. In that capacity apart from supervising the UN Operations there, he managed to effect reconciliation among the feuding factions. He also did much to build up the tottering civil administration. following the withdrawal of the Belgians then the administering power from that territory. Dr. Gardiner was at one time Director of Extra-Mural Studies at the erstwhile University College of Ibadan, Nigeria and was David Livingstone Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland (1970-75). He delivered the B.B.C. Keith Lectures in 1965, the Gilbert Murray Memorial Lecturers at Oxford (1969), J. B. Danquah Memorial Lectures (1970) and the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial lectures (1972).
At home, Dr. Gardiner held several responsible positions including Director of Social Welfare and Community Development, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Establishment Secretary and head of the Civil Service.
Before his appointment as Commissioner for Economic Planning, Dr. Gardiner was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Post and Telecommunications Corporation and was named Visiting Professor of Economics and Senior Consultant to the Centre for Development Studies, University of Cape Coast. He is a Fellow of Selwyn College Cambridge, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science, and the Ghana Institute of Management. Just before retiring from active public service, he was awarded the insignia of Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of the Volta (CV) for distinguished services as Commissioner for Economic Planning.
Dr. Gardiner is the recipient of many honorary doctorate degrees conferred on him by various recognised Universities including the University of Science and Technology Kumasi for his scholarship and outstanding services to Africa and the International community. It has been said of him that at one time, he "just missed" becoming the Secretary General of the United Nations. Dr. Gardiner is one of the few distinguished Africans whom Ghana in particular and Africa in general, can well feel proud and grateful for.
Sacred Ministry
Of the objectives that prompted the founding of the School, perhaps none was decisive and crucial to the Church more than that of producing priests for the "propagation of the Gospel". Although the rate of production has not been as rapid as should be expected over the years, nevertheless appreciable progress has been made. The future prospects look brighter now that better facilities for training are available locally i.e. Trinity College, Legon.
Following the footsteps of the first Old Boy to become a clerk in Holy Orders - the Venerable C. H. Elliott, who providentally is the only survivor of the 29 foundation scholars - many other boys have dedicated their lives to the services of the Church, cheerfully labouring in the Master's Vineyard. In fact, they are finding fulfillment in the work of winning more souls for Christ, and ministering to the spiritual needs of their fellow men. This means, in practice, that one of the fundamental objectives that motivated the Founder to establish the School, i.e. to train suitable candidates for the work of the Church is manifestly being realised to the Glory of God.
Though many of the older generation of Old Boys in the priesthood have retired from active service, due to age or infirmity, several of them form a pool of Extra Parochial Priests whose services are still available to the Church in their localities. In place of those retired priests, there has arisen a new crop of youthful, active, forward-looking priests many of them graduates from the universities and theological colleges both in and outside the country.
The lure of the priesthood seems to hold fascination for some of the Old Boys of the School. Joseph Agyeman Duah, an Ashanti-Mampong royal, for example, recently exchanged in the words of the "Pioneer" the `Silver Stool for the Silver Chalice', a step that means, in effect, giving up, at least temporarily, his right of succession to the Silver Stool of Mampong.
The Revd. Fr. Agyeman Duah, a chartered accountant by profession was, before his ordination, serving as Accountant/Financial Secretary at the Asantehene's Secretariat in Kumasi. The new Priest was a foundation member of the St. Nicholas Choir during his student days at Adisadel in 1944 and apart from serving as a chorister at St. Cyprian's Church, Kumasi for 25 years he went through the Order of Readers in the Diocese of Accra in 1968, before being admitted to the Associate of the Anglican Order of the Holy Cross in 1976, subsequently becoming a full Priest of the Church in September 1977.
Apart from C. H. Elliott, H. Tekyi-Mensah, L.Th., and K. P. Sakyiama, all former Archdeacons, now on retirement, the other older priest still in active service is the Venerable A. Dawson-Amoah. Of the present generation of Old Santaclausian priests and those who have close associations with the School, one way or the other, may be named: the Venerable Edmund Yeboah. B.D., A.K.C., M.A. Archdeacon of Cape Coast, formerly lecturer in Theology, Trinity College, Legon; Revd. Canon Leo Ankrah. B.Sc., (Econ.) B.Th., formerly Presentor, Holy Trinity Cathedral and Diocesan Accountant. (Canon Ankrah who is now Headmaster of Achimota School was at one time Chaplain of Adisadel College).
The others are the Venerable (Lt.-Col:) J. K. Dadson, B.A. (HODS.) Legon, M.A., (Long Island University, New York, (U.S.A.,) Archdeacon of Accra and Chaplain-General of the Ghana Armed Forces; Revd. Fr. T. S. A. Annobil, MLA., L.Th., Trinity College, Legon; Revd., Fr. A. E, Asmah, B.A., Priest-in-Charge of St. Paul's Labadi, Accra (formerly Comptroller of Customs and Excise) Revd. Fr. E. K. T. Arhin and Revd. Fr. J. A. Ackon, Dip. Th., S.Th., Dip. Ed., (Lancaster) former Senior Chaplain and Chaplain respectively of Adisadel College. Revd. Ackon is now Presentor of the Cathedral Church of the Most Holy Trinity and Chaplain of Holy Trinity Cathedral Secondary School, Accra; Revd. Fr. R. C. A. Okine, B.Min., M.,A., Ed.S., Principal, Academy of Christ The King, Cape Coast, and Revd., Fr., P. D. Aggrey, B.D., Headmaster, Anglican Secondary School, Kumasi, both one-time Chaplain of Adisadel College; Revd. Fr. T. A. Brient, Chaplain, Wiawso Training College. Revd. Fr. B. J.A. Adjaayi, L.Th., B.Th., and Revd. Fr. D. S. A. Allotey, B.A., Senior Chaplain and Chaplain respectively of Adisadel College.
"Once a clergyman, always a clergyman". Those faithful servants of God, appear so much absorbed in their work in the Master's Vineyard as if to say with Pret Hart:
"I'm proud to live in the service of the Lord
And I'm bound to die in His Army!
Old Boys of the School are also serving as Diocesan officials. These include E. Brite-Gaisie, LL.B. Barrister-at-Law, S. H. Annancy, LL.B., Barrister-at-Law, who are Registrar and Assistant Registrar respectively of the Accra Diocese. (Barrister Annancy is now Regional Commissioner for the Eastern Region). W. S. Swatson, hon. Assistant Diocesan Accountant, formerly Chief Accountant, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, G. K. Sam Amayih, former General Manager of the Anglican Church Educational Unit (ACEU) and now Ghana Representative of Rapid Results College London, J.O. Ayeh, General Manager of ACEU and J. A, Dennis, Diocesan and Synod Secretary, formerly Principal Secretary, Ministry of the Interior.
Barrister James Mercer, a strong pillar of the Church, has served in several important capacities notably as Chancellor and Diocesan Registrar. Several Old Santaclausians are also ministers of other Churches among them the Revd. I. Aggrey Smith M.A. B.D.. who is Bishop's Deputy and Presiding Elder of the A.M.E. Zion Church, Cape Coast, and formerly Principal of Tafo Teacher Training College. Revd. J. S. Hutchful is the minister in charge of the Methodist Church, Ho. Before his ordination into the ministry, he was Chief Accountant, Accountant General's Department.
As their varied careers show, Old Boys of Adisadel have played and continue to play active and fruitful roles in the affairs of both the Church and the State.
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Adisadel Old Boys Association (AOBA)
Remarkably, Old Boys of Adisadel College have an unusually strong, nostalgic, if sentimental, attachment to their Alma Mater. A healthy espirit de corps keeps them ever alive to their responsibilities to their Old School, through the Adisadel Old Boys Association (AOBA) branches of which exist in the regional capitals. The AOBA is a voluntary social organisation for all those who have attended the School and serves the purposes of bringing the Old Boys together to discuss matters of common interest and find ways, and means of strengthening their links with the School, and helping in every possible way, to maintain the momentum of life and traditions of the School.
In addition to voluntary contributions by the Old Boys, the Association organises social functions so as to raise funds to meet essential needs of the School, such as the provision of science and sports equipment; books and other prizes for distribution to deserving students during Speech and Prize-Giving Day.
There is also an Adisadel College Endowment Fund which is always open and to which Old Boys as well as well wishers of the School can make contributions. The Fund has been instituted for the purpose of financing needful projects at the School including the award of ad hoc bursaries to bright but needy students who are deserving of financial assistance in some way, to enable them to continue their education in the School.
The welfare of the staff and the students is as much the concern of the College Management Committee as it is of the Adisadel Old Boys Association. It is usually a matter given much thought at regular meetings of the Association. For instance, at an important meeting convened at Adisadel at the instance of the National Chairman, Dr. Robert Gardiner, just before the Speech and Prize-Giving Ceremony at the Great Hall on March 4, 1978, the main subject discussed centred on the welfare of the staff and students. And as should be expected, far-reaching decisions were taken not only in the interests of the staff and students in particular but also of the School generally. The problem of feeding the students in the light of the economic situation in the country, the awards of scholarship; and bursaries engaged the attention of the meeting, which was attended by many Old Boys mostly parents and guardians of the students who are concerned about the situation.
It is heartening that Old Boys of Adisadel have never been found wanting in giving practical expressions to their love for their Alma Mater and also in seeking the welfare of the staff and students.
Willie C. Tandoh beautifully dramatised his great love for his Alma Mater when he donated the sum of C5.000.00 (five thousand cedis) for the equipment of the School Laboratory in addition to undertaking on behalf of himself and his company, to sponsor the establishment of a Trade School at Adisadel. This took place when he was the Guest Speaker at the College Speech and Prize-Giving Day held on March 11, 1977. The gist of his speech delivered on that occasion is given elsewhere (see Appendix VII).
Isaac B. Phillips had also the honour of being the Guest Speaker, for the 1978 Speech and Prize-Giving Day ceremony, held on March 4 1978. And as is typical of him, after an illuminating speech in which he exhorted the students to endeavour to live up to all expectations both at work and play and thus add to the achievements and glories of the School, he made a handsome donation of C5,000.00 (five thousand cedis) to the School in addition to presenting a fat live cow to provide a feast for the staff and students to mark that occasion.
There is yet another evidence of Isaac Phillips altruistic spirit worth recording here. As the head of a local firm of launderers and dry cleaners - The Wiseway Cleaners Limited - Buck Phillips has taken a stake in the personal cleanliness of the boys at Adisadel. He has endeavoured to promote in the School the essence of personal cleanliness and clean living. Apart from offering prizes of books for the "Cleaniest Boy" competition which he has instituted in the School, he has also donated a Silver Cup for an annual Inter-House Cleaning Competition, which is still keenly competed for by the various School Houses.
The Roman adage, Mens Sana In Corporis Sano, the principle of sound mind in a healthy body has a strong educational appeal to people all over the world. It is encouraging that this ideal of healthy living is being given practical meaning at Adisadel in this novel way, thanks to the initiative and generosity of a remarkable Old Boy of the School.
Ironically, Isaac Buck Phillips was one of the students of Adisadel College who were dismissed from the School by the Colonial Government for their part in organising the massive students' strike in protest against the arrest and detention of THE BIG SIX in 1948.
He was convinced of the justness of the students' stand in supporting the cause of the country. He never regretted the steps he took and bears no one any grudge for his dismissal from the School. Rather he prides himself on the personal sacrifices which he and the others made which helped to accelerate the pace of freedom and self-government for the country, consequently ending colonial rule for all time in this country. He uses to say that lovers of freedom will always be free whatever the cost!
Re-assuringly, Isaac Phillips attachment to his Old School is as deep and strong as ever to the extent that he tends to be solicitious about the welfare of the School and the students. Adisadel College, undoubtedly, has a soft spot in his heart and he delights to recall, with evident nostalgia, his student days at `Adisco', even though it was all but for a short period!
James Mercer is yet another outstanding Old Santaclausians who deserves equally honourable mention here for his generosity, and great love for his Alma Mater. As a benefactor of the School, he has devoted much of his time, energy and resources in the service of his Alma Mater and no less of the Church.
It will be recalled that in 1960, when the School celebrated the Golden Jubilee of its foundation, James Mercer chose to put up at his own expenses two decorative iron gates at the entrance to the School, to give dignity to the College and also enhance the occasion. Recently, he presented to the School, 12 collarettes for the use of the School Choir. These are examples of his numerous acts of generosity to both the College and the students.
The extent of the love that the Old Boys have for their Alma Mater is seen in various practical forms. Characteristically, S. E. Quarm while serving as Ghana Ambassador to the United States of America, generated American public interest in Adisadel. The happy outcome was that a 5,000-dollar jazz band equipment was donated to the School by an American philanthropist, William Wallace. In appreciation of his generosity, William Wallace has deservingly been elected a honorary member of the College. Thus, while in the States, Sammy (as he is affectionately called by his numerous friends) who is a true-blue Old Santaclausian did much to "sell" not only Ghana but also Adisadel College to the American public with fruitful results.
The publication of this book has been made possible thanks to the generosity of the Old Boys individually and collectively. The enthusiastic manner in which they responded to my appeal for funds surpassed my sanguine expectations. It was great and kind of them all for their wonderful gesture of encouragement and support in this venture. I am most grateful and indebted to them, all.
Adisadel is proud of her distinguished Old Boys who have given years of faithful services to the country and thus by their examples and dedication, helped to "gild the School with their fame."
Students of the School who pass out each year to join the happy Old Santaclausian Family should take inspiration from the zeal and dedication of those "gone before" and "do exploits to add to their gain." They should always be conscious of their obligation and duty to their Alma Mater and help maintain the School's great traditions and achievements.
And now Fellow Santaclausians young and old, let's stand up to honour, and toast the health of the Good Old School and lustily sing our inspirational refrain:
Play up, play up Santaclausians!
Play up and play the game!
Give nothing but your best
And never think of rest
Play up for the School's great name!
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Honours And Awards
A comparative study of national and international honours and awards so far as Old Santaclausians are concerned reveals that Adisadel has something impressive to show. In the academic fields and in the public services, the honours achieved by the Old Boys have justified the School motto: Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis in a practical way.
In the colonial days, Old Santaclausians gave dedicated and responsible public services that won them laudable commendations and honours ranging from the Knighthood down to various orders of the British Empire.
One of the Foundation Scholars, G. C. Mends, is on record as having risen to the position of Assistant Colonial Secretary in the Nigerian Civil Service in the 1940's and retired with an award of O.B.E. for "distinguished service", being probably the first African to achieve such honours in that country.
Legislators, prominent among them, Nana Sir Tsibu Darku X, Omanhene of Assin Attandaso and the late Sir Edward O. Asafu-Adjaye, who later become Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland received the Knighthood while others, notably, Nene Azzu Mate Kole, Konor of Manya Krobo, Odumase and the late Nana Amanfi III, Omanhene of Asebu were awarded the O.B.E. and C.B.E. respectively, all for their leadership and devotion to public duty. W. F. Coleman had M.B.E. and later G.M. for service to Broadcasting.
Lt.-Gen. Akwasi Afrifa was honoured by the State with the insignia of the Most Distinguished Order of Commander of the Volta (C.V.) and also awarded the Distinguished Service Order, D.S.O. (Military) and later installed Okatakyie by the Asanteman Council for bravery and valour. The University of Ghana also conferred on the General an honorary doctorate degree of Doctor of Laws (L.L.D.) for scholarship and valour. Similarly, Nene Azzu Mate Kole had L.L.D. for statesmanship.
The University of Cape Coast similarly conferred on Nana Sir Tsibu Darku X, O.B.E., Omanhene of Assin Attandaso Traditional area, the honorary doctorate degree of Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) for his past distinguished public services as a Legislator and Elder Statesman. Dr. Robert Gardiner was likewise honoured with an award of D. Litt. (honoris causa) by the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, for his scholarship and dedicated service to Africa.
The same spirit of public service continues to animate other Old Boys in various positions of trust and responsibility. Again, Dr. Robert Gardiner former Commissioner for Economic Planning and Nana Fredua Mensah were awarded the insignias of the Most Distinguished Order of the Volta (CV) and the Grand Medal (GM) respectively, in the national awards marking Ghana's 21st Independence Anniversary in March 1978. The former for service to the nation in the field of economics and, the latter for his contribution to the development of transportation in the country.
In the 1979 Ghana Independence Anniversary awards, the Rt. Revd. I.S.M. LeMaire, Bishop of Accra, was the recipient of the Grand Medal (G.M.) while S. C. A. Chinery was appointed Member of the Order of the Volta (MV). Bishop LeMaire who happily is the Chairman of the College Management Committee is well known for his ethical and religious zeal and earlier in 1976, the honorary doctorate degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) had been conferred on him by Cuttington university in Liberia. Amu Chinery (Head Prefect, 1943) is an administrator of considerable experience and standing having retired as Deputy Head of the Civil Service after over 30 years devoted service to the country.
Academically, at Oxford and Cambridge, two scholars of Adisadel became the first Africans to be elected Fellows in these ancient British universities. Professor W. E. Abraham, at All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor J. A. K. Quartey, at Churchill College, Cambridge. Dr. Robert Gardiner is also a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Fellows at the University institutions are learned men of proven scholarship and merit.
Recently, too, both Robert Gardiner and David Andoh had the honour of being among the first to be elected honorary Fellows of the Ghana Institute of Management. As already mentioned elsewhere, Dr. Gardiner has been awarded many honorary doctorate degrees by various universities including the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi for his services to Africa and the international community which he had served so well. It is interesting to note that both David Andoh and Dr. Robert Gardiner served, successively, for sometime as Chairman of the University Council, University of Ghana, Legon. David Andoh is currently Chairman of the Council of the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He delivered the 1978 Alumni Lectures of the University of Ghana, Legon. His subject was: "The Private Sector: A Case ".
And significantly, too, yet another Old Boy, Dr. C. A. Ackah, first Ghanaian Principal of the erstwhile University College of Cape Coast, was awarded the honorary doctorate degree of D. Litt. by the University of Cape Coast. Dr. Ackah who had spent almost all his working life in the education of the youth of this country, had the honour and privilege of starting and nursing that University College, and it is his pioneering achievement that has resulted in its present status as a fully edged University. It was in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of higher education in the country that Dr. Ackah was awarded the honorary D. Litt. degree.
Then there is the scholar, K. O. Hagan who created history as the first Ghanaian who without previously taking a degree, successfully, made a `shot' at the coveted B. Litt. degree at Oxford. Kwa Hagan was the first and for many years, the National Secretary of the People's Educational Association of Ghana (PEA) and later the Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Education, University of Ghana. `
In the 1960's he served on the UNESCO 24-member International Committee for the advancement of Adult Education at UNESCO, Paris, France and in that capaciiy, he represented the English speaking countries of Africa on that Committee. He was also a member of the UNESCO International Committee of Experts on Literacy. Kwa Hagan was also in the sixties, the Chairman of the Specialised Committee on Adult Education of the World Federation of the Organisation of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP) in Washington DC, USA. Other members of the Committee were acknowledged adult educationalists drawn from Europe North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Adisadel has indeed every reason to be proud of her scholars and men of affairs for the honour they have brought to themselves, the School and the country. It is to be hoped that their achievements, great zeal and dedication will inspire the rising generations of students to emulate their fine examples.
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A political science lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) Osei Kwadwo, has applauded former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan for chastising African heads of state for their penchant to clinch to power through fraudulent elections.
Mr Annan delivering his treatise during a lecture on leadership and public service dubbed ‘An afternoon with Kofi Annan’ organised by the alumni of his alma mater Mfantsipim College on Thursday August 10, 2017, said: “A growing number of Presidents are changing their constitutions and subverting elections to remain in power indefinitely. According to international watch dogs, democratic freedoms seem to be in retreat on our continent. Although governments organise elections, many lack integrity.”
He further decried the divisive politicking of “unscrupulous African leaders” noting, “Elections with integrity confer legitimacy on the winners and offers protection to the losers. But many elections have paradoxically exacerbated identity politics as unscrupulous politicians banded to ethnic and religious cravings and prejudices to mobilize voters in their favour.
These developments he warned “are all the more serious given the size and expectations of our youth population. African population will grow to 2 billion by 2050 and 4 billion by the end of the century. This demographic boom can be a blessing or a curse depending on the policies we adopt. But on current trends, there are grounds for concern.”
Speaking on this development in an interview with Accra News on Friday August 11, 2017, Mr Osei Kwadwo who is also a legal practitioner said: “I agree perfectly with what Mr Annan has said. For instance, Ghana’s first president became like a patron in Ghana, he adopted the father figure style and positioned himself as such, he became an authority on himself and so he was worshiped.
“That meant that positions were given based on praise singing but not just on competence. Today, it appears we are experiencing same development because the constitution has entrusted too much powers to the president in terms of appointments and that has been Ghana’s problem.”
He added: “This problem exists in almost all other African countries and so most African countries are suffering from the square pegs in round hole problem. And so Mr Annan is right, he has hit the nail right on the head. It appears in Africa we are our own enemies.”
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ST. PAUL — Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is being honored by his alma mater with a life-sized bust at Macalester College’s new international studies center.
He told a small crowd at the St. Paul liberal arts college that it was great to be back. He spoke Wednesday in the entryway of the Institute for Global Citizenship.
He says he was initially cool to the idea of a bust because it seems like something that’s done for people who have died. But he’s pleased with the result and the mission of the institute.
He says the world is now a global village and no one can think purely in local terms. With that in mind, he said, he’s sure the institute will train future leaders.
Annan retired from the U.N. in 2006. He lives in Geneva and serves as a mediator and advocate for Africa.
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W. Stuart McDowell, artistic director of Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, was honored with the 2019 Distinguished Citizen Award from his alma mater, Macalester College.
McDowell graduated in 1969 from Macalester, a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Other notable Macalester alumni include former Vice President Walter Mondale and Kofi Annan, who served as secretary-general of the United Nations and was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Macalester cited McDowell for demonstrating outstanding leadership, achievement and active involvement in his community over his lifetime, adding that the school believes a college education should be the training and inspiration for unselfish and effective service.
“I’m honored beyond what I can put into words of being an alumnus of Macalester, where the U.N. flag is flown beneath that of the U.S. every day,” said McDowell. “Mac remains an institution of higher education whose mission of promoting global understanding today is needed now as much or more than ever before.”
After graduating from Macalester and following graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, McDowell was a Fulbright Scholar, researching Bertolt Brecht, a German playwright and poet.
In 1977, McDowell and his wife, Gloria Skurski, founded the Riverside Shakespeare Company in New York City in 1977. The company produced the first New York stage production featuring actor Tom Hanks.
In 2018, McDowell received the Fredrick A. White Distinguished Professor of Professional Service Award from Wright State for his efforts.
McDowell teaches a range of classes, from a survey of world theatre for majors and non-majors in the department to classes in German theatre. He has lectured from coast to coast, as well as in Germany and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovinian.
While at Wright State, McDowell has directed and won awards for several plays in the Festival Playhouse. One of these plays, “1913: The Great Dayton Flood,” co-written with honors student Timothy Nevits, won numerous awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
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Kofi Annan, the career diplomat from Ghana who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006, died in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 18 after s brief illness. He was 80 years old.
Annan was the first leader of the United Nations from sub-Saharan Africa. A native of Kumasi in what is now Ghana, both of his grandfathers were tribal chiefs. After studying for two years at what is now Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, Annan came to the United States to study at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and later earned a master’s degree in management at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Annan began his career at the United Nations in 1962 as a budget officer for the World Health Organization. He came to the United Nations headquarters in New York in 1983.
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Who Was Kofi Annan?
Kofi Annan was born into an aristocratic family in Ghana and he attended a number of schools and colleges, studying international relations in the United States and Switzerland. He became an international civil servant working for the United Nations in 1962. He went on to become the U.N. secretary-general and later a special envoy to Syria. Annan died on August 18, 2018 in Switzerland at the age of 80.
Early Life and Education
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Atta Annan was born within minutes of his twin sister, Efua Atta, on April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Ghana. The grandchild and nephew of three tribal chiefs, Annan was raised in one of Ghana's aristocratic families.
In his mid-teens, Annan attended an elite Methodist boarding school called Mfantsipim, where he learned that "suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere." Upon Annan's graduation from the school in 1957, Ghana gained independence from Britain; it was the first British African colony to do so. "It was an exciting period," Annan once told The New York Times. "People of my generation, having seen the changes that took place in Ghana, grew up thinking all was possible."
Annan went on to pursue higher education, attending four different colleges: Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota; Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland; and the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He earned a number of degrees, including a Master of Science, and studied international relations. Annan, whose native language is Akan, also became fluent in English, French, some Kru languages and other African languages.
Career with the United Nations
Annan's career with the United Nations began in 1962, when he got a job working as a budget officer for the World Health Organization, a U.N. agency. Annan has been an international civil servant ever since, with the exception of a short break from 1974 to 1976, when he worked as the director of tourism in Ghana.
For a nine-year period from 1987 to 1996, Annan was appointed to serve as an assistant secretary-general in three consecutive positions: Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator; Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller; and Peacekeeping Operations. While he served in that last capacity, the Rwandan genocide took place. Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who has been the force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, accused Annan of being overly passive in his responses to the 1994 genocide. Some 10 years after the genocide, in which more than 800,000 people were killed, Annan admitted that he "could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support," according to a March 2004 BBC article.
Annan served as under-secretary-general from March 1994 to October 1995. He resumed the position in 1996 after a five-month appointment to serve as a special representative of the secretary-general to the former Yugoslavia.
United Nations Chief
The United Nations Security Council recommended Annan to replace the previous secretary-general, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, in later 1996. The General Assembly voted in his favor, and he began his first term as secretary-general on January 1, 1997.
Among Annan's most well-known accomplishments were his issuance of a five-point Call to Action in April 2001 to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic and his proposal to create a Global AIDS and Health Fund. He and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December of 2001 "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."
Annan is also known for his opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and to Iran's nuclear program. He told the BBC in September 2004 that the Iraq war did not conform to the U.N. charter and was illegal.
Life After the United Nations
Annan retired on December 31, 2006. Several months prior, he gave a farewell speech to world leaders at U.N. headquarters in New York, outlining major problems with an unjust world economy and widespread contempt for human rights.
"We are not only all responsible for each other's security," Annan said in his speech. "We are also, in some measure, responsible for each other's welfare. Global solidarity is both necessary and possible. It is necessary because without a measure of solidarity no society can be truly stable, and no one's prosperity truly secure."
Following his retirement, Annan returned to Ghana. He became involved with a number of organizations with a global focus. He was chosen to lead the formation of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, became a member of the Global Elders and was appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. In 2009, Annan joined a Columbia University program at the university’s School of International and Public Affairs.
In February 2012, Annan was appointed as the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria in an attempt to end the civil war taking place there. He developed a six-point plan for peace. He resigned from the position, citing intransigence of both the Syrian government and the rebels, as well as the Security Council's failure to create a peaceful resolution.
"As an envoy, I can't want peace more than the protagonists, more than the Security Council or the international community, for that matter," Annan said in a resignation speech on August 2, 2012.
"I had expected to go into Ghanaian politics," Annan once told Saga magazine, "retire to a farm at 60 and die in my bed at 80. It did not happen so. It's one of the things God does."
Death
Annan passed away after a short illness in a hospital in Bern, Switzerland, on August 18, 2018. His wife Nane and children Ama, Kojo and Nina were by his side. "Kofi Annan was a global statesman and a deeply committed internationalist who fought throughout his life for a fairer and more peaceful world. During his distinguished career and leadership of the United Nations he was an ardent champion of peace, sustainable development, human rights and the rule of law," the Kofi Annan Foundation and Annan family said in a statement.
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We support countries with high-level engagement, rollout of national scorecard tools, End Malaria Councils and Funds, youth engagement and high level advocacy including through the African Union and Regional Economic Communities.
Our team is guided by the determination to see Africa realise shared prosperity through the elimination of the continent’s most rampant and yet preventable and curable diseases.
Joy Phumaphi
Joy Phumaphi is the executive secretary at the African Leaders Malaria Alliance and is a former minister of health of the Republic of Botswana.
Learn more about Joy.
Ambassador Professor Sheila Tlou
Ambassador Tlou was appointed as Special Ambassador in the fight against malaria by His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta (ALMA Chair from January 2020 to August 2022) in 2021.
Professor Tlou is co-chair of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition and holds a similar position at the Nursing Now Campaign. She is a former UNAIDS Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, former Minister for Health in the Republic of Botswana, and a former Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nursing Development in primary health care.
As UNAIDS Regional Director, Professor Tlou provided leadership and political advocacy for a sustainable AIDS response in 21 African countries. As co-chair of the Nursing Now Campaign, she leads a global movement, run in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the International Council of Nurses, which aims to maximise nurses’ contributions to the achievement of universal health coverage.
Ambassador Anthony Okara
Ambassador Okara was appointed as Special Ambassador in the fight against malaria by His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta (ALMA Chair from January 2020 to August 2022) in 2021.
Ambassador Okara is a lawyer, diplomat and international civil servant. He has been involved in multilateral engagements and public sector reforms for almost 2 decades in Kenya, East Africa and on the African continent at large. He was the Deputy Chief of Staff (2008 to 2017) in the Bureau of the Deputy Chairperson at the African Union Commission. As the Head of Cabinet at the Deputy Chairperson’s office, he was at the centre of essential capacity building and extensive institutional reforms at the African Union.
Dr Melanie Renshaw
Melanie serves as ALMA’s Principal Director. She oversees the development of the ALMA Scorecard for Action and Accountability, tracking country level progress in achieving key malaria and health targets in Africa, supporting national malaria control programmes and ministries of health in Africa to resolve technical and implementation bottlenecks. Melanie previously worked for UNICEF at country, regional and headquarters level and the World Health Organization. She has a PhD from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Dr Charles Paluku
Charles is a Senior Malaria Technical Advisor at ALMA. He is a senior public health development specialist with over 30 years of experience in national, regional and international programme management of communicable and non-communicable diseases. He is also a member of several professional associations and working groups.
Dr Paluku has worked for the World Health Organization as Team Leader of the malaria control and elimination programme at the inter-country support team and is a former Director of Combating Childhood Communicable Diseases Programme in Democratic Republic of the Congo. He holds a Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Kinshasa (Lovanium), a Master of Public Health from the Prince Leopold Institute for Tropical Medicine, and a Diploma in Malariology and Malaria Control from the University of Bordeaux II, France.
Samson Katikiti
Samson is ALMA’s Senior Programme Officer and Database Manager. Samson holds a Bachelor of Science Honours in Engineering and postgraduate degree in Information and Knowledge Management. He has worked at the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa, managing the sub-regional malaria database for Eastern and Southern Africa. In this role, he supported the establishment of composite malaria databases, use of geographical information systems in malaria control and production of routine malaria surveillance bulletins in Eastern and Southern African countries. During his tenure at ALMA, Samson has contributed to malaria programme reviews and supported malaria indicator surveys in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dr Abraham Mnzava
Abraham is ALMA’s Senior Malaria Coordinator and Director of the ALMA Tanzania Office. He supports national and regional regulatory systems to enhance the introduction of new tools for malaria control. He works with the African Union, its organs and Regional Economic Communities to advance the agenda for the local production of pharmaceuticals and vector control commodities in Africa. Prior to joining ALMA, Abraham was the coordinator of the Entomology and Vector Control Unit in the World Health Organisation Global Malaria Programme. In this role, he had been responsible for leading and coordinating global policy-making processes and supporting the implementation of malaria vector control interventions. Abraham holds a Bachelor and a Master of Science Degree in Biology from the University of Dar es Salaam, a Master of Science in Medical Entomology and Parasitology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK and a PhD from the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Dr Ketema Bizuneh
Ketema is a public health specialist responsible for the coordination of the reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health within ALMA. He supports the development and consistent use of the RMNCAH and community scorecard tools by the country ministry of health teams to guide actions and accountabilities at all levels. Having served the UN, international non-governmental organisations and government systems in programme and management responsibilities, Ketema works towards using his experience in strengthening partnership at all levels including the community.
Diego Duque
Diego is a Senior Programme Officer at ALMA. He supports African governments with the implementation and strengthening of scorecard management tools for malaria, RMNCAH, nutrition, NTDs and community health. Diego also supports ministries of health to strengthen national DHIS2 health information systems with respect to scorecard-related applications and data quality. He has worked on enhancing data-driven decision-making, accountability and transparency in over 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the United States, largely in the sectors of health, education and economic development. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and International Policy and Management from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Political Science from the University of Connecticut.
Dr Foluke Olusegun
Foluke is a Senior Programme Officer at ALMA. Her role includes supporting the development and use of national malaria and RMNCAH scorecard tools, analysing and documenting best practices in their use. Dr Olusegun also supports ALMA’s work in local manufacturing and regulation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree and PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry respectively. Prior to joining ALMA, she worked as a technical officer with the World Health Organization (Switzerland and Ethiopia) and as a research scientist at a United States Department of Defense Biomedical Research facility (USA).
Robert Ndieka
Robert is a Senior Programme Officer supporting ALMA scorecard tools. He has previously worked for the African Union Commission, East African Community, African Medical and Research Foundation African Union’s Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, and International Center for Reproductive Health among others. Robert holds a Master of Public Health and Epidemiology degree and has in-depth knowledge of health systems across the African continent. He also has a wealth of experience in policy advocacy, diplomacy, regional integration, health programming and putting in place action and accountability mechanisms for health.
James Banda
James serves as ALMA Francophone Scorecard Web Platform Officer. He facilitates scorecard workshops and leads Scorecard Web Platform training in French and English. He also supports ongoing development and maintenance of the Scorecard Web Platform. Furthermore, he helps ALMA country focal points with ongoing efforts to strengthen scorecard tools by providing tailored support to countries, tracking implementation progress and documenting best practices.
Dr Irenée Umulisa
Irenée is the Neglected Tropical Diseases Senior Programme Officer at ALMA. She is a public health expert, epidemiologist, gender and development specialist and consultant. She has over 14 years of working experience in the design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of various disease control programmes, public policy development and implementation, diseases surveillance, outbreak investigation and response, operations and clinical trials research and clinical practice in referral and district hospitals. Prior to joining ALMA, she served in the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Rwanda as well as the World Health Organization.
End Malaria Councils team
Stephen Rooke
Stephen is ALMA’s End Malaria Council and Fund Advisor. End Malaria Councils and Funds are country-led and country-owned initiatives focused on mobilising advocacy, action, accountability and resources to support malaria control and elimination. Stephen researches and advises ALMA member states on the technical processes of establishing national councils and funds and documents best practices related to governance, advocacy and resource mobilisation. Prior to joining ALMA, Stephen worked as a management consultant with experience advising governments, the private sector and nonprofit philanthropies around the globe. Stephen is a licensed attorney and received a B.A. in Political Science & Policy Studies (Rice University), J.D. (University of Michigan Law School, Michigan Journal of International Law), and LL.M. (University of Nebraska College of Law, thesis on telehealth and development).
Dr Elizabeth Chizema-Kawesha
Elizabeth is the Senior Programme Officer for End Malaria and NTD Councils and Funds and seconded to support Zambia’s End Malaria Council and Fund. She has supported the country to establish the End Malaria Council and Fund, which is a country-owned and led high-level multi-sectoral body convened to support malaria elimination efforts through advocacy, resource mobilisation, action and accountability. Dr Chizema has held various national leadership positions such as Director of Zambia’s National Malaria Elimination Programme. She serves on various national and international committees including the Gates MSAP, the Innovative Vector Control Consortium board and SOE Course. Dr Chizema is a medical doctor and a public health practitioner.
Dr Denise Njama-Meya
Denise is a public health specialist working with ALMA to provide technical assistance and support in the designing, planning and launching of country-led and county-owned End Malaria Councils and Funds with a focus in the areas of governance, secretariat operations, advocacy, action and resource mobilisation. She also supports the documentation of best practices.
Prior to joining ALMA, she worked as a consultant supporting several countries in the development of their Global Fund malaria applications, in conducting national malaria programme reviews, and in developing national malaria strategic plans as well as malaria policies.
She also has expertise in community, human rights, and gender in health including addressing human rights and gender barriers in malaria programming. She supported the development of the Global Fund Malaria, Human Rights and Gender technical briefs and training tools as well as conducted training of national malaria programme leaders, development partners and WHO staff in the Africa region on gender in malaria programming.
Denise holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, a Masters of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a Post-graduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Dr Adiel Mushi
Adiel is the End Malaria Council and Fund Coordinator in the United Republic of Tanzania. Besides this role, Adiel supports the community scorecard work. He supports parliamentary engagement and high-level advocacy for the national scorecard tools for the United Republic of Tanzania. He works closely with the African Union Commission and Regional Economic Communities to ensure that Malaria remains high on the political and development agenda of the continent.
Scorecard Hub team
Thomas Davies
Thomas is the ALMA Scorecard Hub Coordinator. The Scorecard Hub is an online platform that lets countries transparently share health data and best practices on the use of scorecard management tools. The hub also provides online courses and guides to help countries create, analyse and improve their scorecard tools.
Prior to joining ALMA, Thomas has led digital projects in local government and the charity sector in the UK.
Dr Anne Gasasira
Anne is the Senior Programme Officer for Malaria and Monitoring and Evaluation at ALMA. Anne’s role includes supporting the development and use of national malaria and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health scorecard tools, analysing and documenting best practices in their use. Anne is also involved in facilitating country-level work on parliamentary engagement and resource mobilisation for malaria. Anne is a medical doctor and epidemiologist and has worked in different areas of malaria control for over 15 years.
Communications team
Tawanda Chisango
Tawanda is the Chief of Communications supporting ALMA’s core functions in driving action and accountability, advocacy and resource mobilisation. Prior to this, Tawanda has held several positions in communications, campaigns, resource mobilisation, advocacy, political engagement and accountability at the African Union, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, UNAIDS, UNDP and various international organisations in international development. Tawanda holds a Master of Science in Media and Society Studies and a Bachelor of Science Honours in Media and Society Studies.
William Dekker
William is the Youth, Communication and Advocacy Technical Advisor at ALMA. William is a strategic public relations and communication specialist whose expertise spans through development and execution of communication and public relations strategies, audio-visual production, digital media management, and technical and creative writing and editing. He possesses superb media relations skills with a comprehensive understanding of the media landscape in Africa. William has previously managed communication initiatives for intergovernmental organisations, government ministries, state departments and agencies, multinationals and nonprofits.
Joy Njambi
Joy is the Digital Engagement Specialist supporting ALMA in the realisation of its mandate in advocacy, resource mobilisation and action and accountability. Previously, she has successfully led advocacy campaigns in Kenya, advocating for sexual reproductive health right for marginalised populations as well as health rights for TB patients in the country. A development communications specialist, she has in other capacities developed and executed integrated communication strategies across a broad range of sectors including international development agencies, nonprofits, private sector and government ministries, departments and agencies.
Petrider Paul
Petrider is a Youth Engagement Officer at ALMA. Her role includes supporting the implementation of ALMA’s strategy for youth engagement and mainstreaming youth involvement in ALMA’s core activities such as End Malaria Councils and Funds, scorecard management tools, the ALMA Scorecard Hub, advocacy and communications, regional economic communities and support to countries. Prior to joining ALMA, she served as a member of the African Union Youth Advisory Council. She had also served as a Programme Officer for the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Tanzania office and as a UNICEF Tanzania consultant to produce communications material for children in line with the national plan of action for ending violence against women and children. She holds a post-graduate diploma in Economic Diplomacy from the Mozambique-Tanzania Centre for Foreign Relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Dodoma, Tanzania.
Finance and audit team
Souleymane Balde
Souleymane is the Chief Finance Officer at ALMA, leading institutional accounting, and financial management since 2020. Souleymane holds a Master of Business Administration degree from King Graduate School of Business from Monroe College in the USA and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Kofi Annan University of Guinea.
Prior to joining ALMA in 2014, he worked as a Chief Accountant for OIC International in Guinea and Finance Manager for Winrock International.
Oluwakemi Oyebade
Oluwakemi is a Senior Accounting and Human Resources Officer at ALMA.
She manages ALMA’s financial accounts and accounting records, and the preparation of financial reports, statements, and analysis in accordance with applicable professional accounting standards and best practices among other assignments.
Frank Ohene Anaafi
Frank is a Senior Finance Officer at ALMA and is responsible for financial reporting, record keeping and ensuring effective internal controls and accounting standards are in place across projects. He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Coventry University, United Kingdom, and has over 15 years working experience in international development across West Africa and in the United States. Prior to joining ALMA, Frank worked as Finance and Operations Manager at OIC International, USA and previously as the Finance and Administration Director for the US$35million USAID-funded Title II Food project in Liberia. Frank possesses the experience, knowhow and hands-on expertise in project implementation, financial accounting, strategic financial planning, internal control systems and community and rural development.
Alpha Sakho
Alpha is a Junior Accounting Officer at ALMA. He has a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics with a concentration in finance from Towson University in the USA.
Prior to joining ALMA, he worked as an intern at PWC. His responsibilities ranges from managing financial reports, statements, records as well as adhering to best practices and procedures.
Dar es Salaam headquarters office team
The headquarters team is overseen by Dr Abraham Mnzava who serves as Director of the ALMA Tanzania Office and as Senior Malaria Coordinator.
Halima Mustafa
Halima is an Accountant at ALMA’s Dar Es Salaam office. She is responsible for processing the monthly payroll, developing monthly financial reports as well as monthly bank reconciliations. In addition to other roles, she contributes to the implementation of audit recommendations.
Prior to ALMA. Halima Mustafa, served as an Assistant Accountant at PWC in Tanzania for over 20 years.
Annette Huho
Annette is an ALMA’s Programme Associate. She supports the preparation and dissemination of the ALMA Scorecard for Accountability and Action and country-specific quarterly reports, correspondence and calls and other logistics for ALMA forums, End Malaria Council coordination, high-level summits, meetings and workshops. She also supports the implementation of African Union Commission and ALMA joint work plan and assists the ALMA Dar es Salaam Office Manager in administrative functions. She is also responsible for managing the ALMA Executive Secretary’s calendar.
Neema Mtega
Neema is an Assistant Programme Associate at ALMA, providing general administrative support for ALMA, where she joined in October 2018. Neema holds a Master of Public Administration from Mzumbe University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Dodoma.
Before joining ALMA, she served as an intern administrator at Nafasi Arts Space.
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Matt Gaffney’s Wall Street Journal contest crossword, “Majority Rules” — Jim’s review
Jim here again one last time while Dave is on holiday. This week we’re looking for a “familiar two-word phrase.”
So what are the theme entries? Well, it’s not entirely clear at first. The longest Across entries are ANACONDAS, POSSESSES, ASSASSINS, and AL MARTINO. There’s not a lot in common there at first glance.
So if you flailed around a bit like I did, well, then, you’re forgiven. But look at those two middle ones. That’s a lot of Ss (or esses). ANACONDAS doesn’t have a lot of Ss, but it does have three As. But then, what to do with AL MARTINO? Only two As there.
Well, the title is “Majority Rules,” so maybe we’re looking for the most letters in an answer. That explains the first three, but again, what to do with AL MARTINO?
Flail around a little more and you may then notice other entries that have a lot of common letters: BOO-BOOS, WWIII, UH-HUH. Ok. Now we’re on to something here.
Are we looking for the letter in each word with the greatest frequency? But there’s nothing in FILTH, Ls in TELL-ALL, I’s in WWIII, but then 2 Ds and 2 Es in STEADIED. So…nope.
How about if we go by rows? Ls in the first row. I’s in the second row. But then the third row has 3 As and 3 Ds. Nope again.
By this point I felt pretty confident about the Ls, Is, Os (in BOO-BOOS), and maybe the Ns in ANNAN. Hey, that spells LION and — hold the phone — LION’S SHARE is a two-word phrase that means “majority.”
I smelled blood now. With the Ss from POSSESSES and ASSASSINS I was sure. Add the Hs from UH-HUH, As from ALABAMA, Rs from ERROR, and Es from REFEREE, and there you have it. Our answer this week is LION’S SHARE.
But still I was dissatisfied. Why didn’t the As from ANACONDAS fit?
The answer is that the As don’t make up the majority of that word. In every other case, the letter in question isn’t just the most frequent letter, it is found more than half the time in that word or phrase. Here then is the list of theme entries and their respective letter counts.
L – TELL-ALL (4/7)
I – WWIII (3/5)
O – BOO-BOOS (4/7)
N – ANNAN (3/5)
S – POSSESSES (5/9)
S – ASSASSINS (5/9)
H – UH-HUH (3/5)
A – ALABAMA (4/7)
R – ERROR (3/5)
E – REFEREE (4/7)
This is really slick and elegant. No other words in the grid have this feature, not even in the Down direction. This is especially impressive when you examine the 3-letter fill. Matt had to avoid everything from AHA to EGG to PIP to ZOO. That’s a lot of constraints, without even mentioning that there are 10 theme answers.
So that’s why we get entries like DELAYERS, ELINOR, and ERBIUM, and the alphabet soup of ASU, SCH, PSA, RAF, ERS, ESL, and FWD. I’m okay with all of that when you have a theme this cool that’s been executed so cleanly.
Clues of note:
65a. [Clipping caller] is REFEREE. Clipping is an infraction in football. Wikipedia definition: “throwing the body across the back of the leg of an eligible receiver or charging or falling into the back of an opponent below the waist after approaching him from behind, provided the opponent is not a runner.”
20d. [He hisses] is TOM. Seems hinky to me. For a time, I thought this was referring to Helium and balloons.
34d. [Only well-known English word from Finnish] is SAUNA. I love this little factoid!
26a. [Boutros-Ghali’s successor] ANNAN. My daughter just started her freshman year at Macalester College in St Paul, MN. You know who’s an alum of Macalester? One Kofi ANNAN. (And not just any Kofi ANNAN. The Kofi ANNAN.) You may know he’s a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but did you also know he was the table tennis champion his senior year at Macalester in 1961? Or that there is a Kofi ANNAN Ping Pong Table? You do now. You’re welcome. I think we need to invite the former Secretary-General to the ACPT and set up a Shortz /ANNAN exhibition match. Who’s with me on this?!
In conclusion, Matt gives us a beautiful puzzle today whose meta answer makes for a fun a-ha moment and is supremely logical given the puzzle’s title and the methodology used to find it. In a word, elegant.
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The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, addressed the closing session of the Millennium Summit in New York on September 8th. He expressed appreciation to the 160 chiefs of state and heads of government for the Declaration they adopted defining the goals to be achieved in the next 15 years—by 2015. Their Declaration said that it is intolerable that millions of innocent people, especially women and children, should still fall victim to brutal conflict. It reaffirmed the vital importance of international law; it called for a comprehensive reform of the Security Council and for action and results to make the United Nations more effective.
Kofi Annan then spoke these crucial words to the assembled member states, words which are basic to any hope or possibility of making the UN more relevant and effective: “...You are yourselves the United Nations. It lies in your power, and therefore it is your responsibility, to reach the goals you have defined. Only you can determine whether the United Nations rises to the challenge...”
The Secretary-General has wisely welcomed and promoted growing links with international business and with non-governmental organizations that give hope of a constituency of support that the UN desperately needs. But it is the 189 member states that are in fact the United Nations; their governments must determine if the UN will be an important instrument of international governance. The great power and energy of the United States (US) is not available to lead this historic mission. We can regret that reality but we must confront it—and the results of the presidential elections in November will not change that reality.
In this paper, I will discuss the future of the UN in the context of the United States and the European Union (EU). I will argue that America’s faltering and provocatively negative role in the UN can now be transformed into opportunity by the European Union—an opportunity to bring the economic and military power of the member states of the European Union together for a universal purpose and in so doing give form and substance to the new Europe—an opportunity for the European Union to offer the leadership that is desperately needed and that the United States cannot presently give. The strategic and diplomatic decisions are complicated. They need intense effort and commitment by the European Union to be formulated and executed. If the EU accepts the challenge and carries it out successfully, it will give the 21st century an incomparable prospect of peace, purpose, and historic progress in achieving social justice.
Let me begin by discussing the American relationship to the United Nations. It is important to understand some fundamentals as to how our government works. The US is not a parliamentary democracy where the executive power is an extension of the legislative power. We are a constitutional republic, founded by men whom experience and learning had taught to be distrustful of power, especially the concentration of power. The result is a commitment to the concept of balance of power with three branches of government—the executive, legislative and judicial, given express and implied powers, which 210 years of experience as a nation have defined, enlarged, and distilled. It is a remarkable system and it works for our country, now the oldest constitutional democracy in the world. Protected and isolated by two oceans, America has lived its history free of the destructive violence of foreign enemies that has diminished and destroyed other nations. Now, for more than 50 years, America has been the dominant military, economic and political force in the world. It reluctantly accepted the responsibility of international leadership. It has certainly been as generous and benign as any predecessor nation in world history, which has had its opportunity of power and leadership. Self-interest, national interest, sometimes arrogant self-confidence have all been a part of its decisions affecting other nations, but it has responded greatly to the challenges to humanity and democracy in the 20th century.
The relationship of the US to the UN since its founding has been creative, intense, often supportive, frequently insulting, sometimes disruptive, often undiplomatic, and increasingly destructive. The Americans who participated in the creation of the United Nations were tough, pragmatic politicians who, having witnessed the collapse of the League of Nations, were determined to avoid its weaknesses, yet build upon its ideals. The terrible cost to humanity—in life, in wealth, in spiritual values—of the Second World War and the advent of the nuclear age made age-old ideals of international governance into pragmatic necessities. The Holocaust showed us the depth of human evil. The Second World War cost more than 60 million lives, an overwhelming percentage of them innocent civilian lives. The great cities and countryside of Europe and Asia lay in the ashes of horrific destruction. The nuclear age provided the curtain to this awful episode of history. For the first time Mankind had a capacity to destroy itself and to make the world uninhabitable. The world was blessed to have an extraordinary generation of men and women of ideals and vision available to it.
The United Nations was the last great achievement of the President whom most agree was the greatest American leader of the 20th century. Franklin Roosevelt understood the history of American isolationism and the powerful forces that would resist US participation in international organizations. He was determined to avoid the political mistakes of Woodrow Wilson, creating a universal organization which would bring all nations together but where the most powerful nations, designated as permanent members of the Security Council, had a special responsibility for collective security and the obligations of the UN Charter. The Charter was not done by decrees from heaven. It was carefully crafted, with national interests and attitudes often in conflict. There was endless negotiation of the various proposals even as the war continued. Idealism and cynicism confronted each other but in the end, an intelligent, pragmatic, imperfect agreement was negotiated. In the midst of hope and with the echo of every political argument that still has resonance today, the UN Charter was adopted. The founders understood that a civil society needs to be built on law and order—that civilization needs a policeman. Since no single nation—and certainly not the United States—wanted to be that policeman, the Security Council was organized to carry out an important part of that responsibility through collective action. The Charter became an instrument by which the principle of self-determination could be realized. It insisted on respect for human rights, and encouraged economic, social, cultural and humanitarian cooperation among all nations. And every nation was signatory to that Charter—51 in 1945, 189 today. The founders knew—and we know—the gross imperfections of the world but they knew—and we know—what had to be done to make it better.
America made its commitment in 1945. President Harry Truman expressed it in his address to the delegates in San Francisco who adopted the Charter of the United Nations:
“If we fail to use the Charter and the organization that we have created with it, we shall betray all of those who have died in order that we might meet here in freedom and in safety to create it. If we seek to use it selfishly for the advantage of one nation or small group of nations, we shall be equally guilty of that betrayal, but what a great day in history this can be. This Charter is no more perfect than our own constitution, but like the constitution it must be made to live. The powerful nations must accept the responsibility for leadership toward a world of peace.”
Sitting at President Truman’s right hand was Arthur Vandenberg, the most powerful Republican member of the Senate of the United States. This was not the commitment of a party or of a person. This was a commitment of a nation, proposed by its President and ratified by the Senate in the solemn manner ordained by our Constitution. Only two members of the Senate voted in opposition. The United States understood that it had to lead in organizing the community of nations if the United Nations was to succeed.
The depth and continuance of that commitment is a decision that each generation must make anew. Is the United Nations an instrument of international governance that serves American interests? Germany’s interests? Europe’s interests? The interests of the Atlantic community? Not to mention the countries separated from us by ideology and poverty and systemic failure? The question presupposes that we know what those interests are. Let us frame the question in terms of the countries of the Atlantic Alliance both individually and collectively. Is the international control of nuclear proliferation in our interest? Were their interests served by de-colonization, a process that has taken place for the most part peacefully because the United Nations served as the bridge that old Empires could cross so that new nations would emerge? Is it in their interest to advance the Rule of Law, to encourage respect for human rights, to ameliorate humanitarian crises so that the millions of refugees wandering the earth, devastated by famine and despair, have at least the option of surviving and resettling in their own countries and regions?
And what does UN peacekeeping and peacemaking mean to their interests? Let us consider only some of the interventions since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Consider Cambodia, where in the 1970s the world witnessed the killing fields where two million innocent people were murdered and did nothing to stop the slaughter. Because of United Nations intervention, because of the end of the Cold War, because of the leadership of Australia and Japan, because of the support of the European Union and the United States, the violence has ended in Cambodia and there is hope for democracy. A United Nations force did not liberate South Africa, but its condemnation of Apartheid and its sanctions helped force the release of Nelson Mandela, a transforming event in the history of South Africa.
Americans especially should remember what peace in El Salvador means, having spent billions of dollars taking sides in a civil war that cost the lives of 80,000 people— 80,000 dead in one decade in one small Central American country in our own hemisphere. Was it in our interest to have the diplomatic intervention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations that brought an end to that struggle?
How could Iraq’s aggression have been repulsed and the principle of collective security sustained without a Security Council mandate which allowed both Arab nations and Israel to support the liberation of Kuwait—and which made its $100 billion cost a shared responsibility? In 1992, American forces, under the flag of the UN, brought a quick end to the suffering in Somalia where 400,000 people a year were dying of starvation. The mismanagement of the subsequent military role by both the UN and the US in Somalia, instead of being a painful lesson in future preparations and restraints, became a political liability that President Clinton was unwilling to accept, permitting the UN to become the scapegoat of defeat.
When the crisis exploded in Bosnia, none of our countries wanted to face the costs of peace, costs that Benjamin Disraeli calculated with extraordinary precision 114 years before. In a speech in 1878 in the House of Lords, Prime Minister Disraeli said: “No language can describe adequately the condition of that portion of the Balkan Peninsula— Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina. No words can describe the political intrigue, the constant rivalries, a total absence of all public spirit, a hatred of all races, animosities of rival religions, absence of any controlling power. Nothing short,” Disraeli said, “of an army of 50,000 of Europe’s best troops would produce anything like order in those parts.” We have seen the Serbs and the Croats and the Muslims kill each other with heartrending results six different times since 1878. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have been murdered. In 1992, no country wanted to send their ground troops to be involved in another civil war among the Balkan nations. The United Nations was given an impossible mission. The Security Council sent unarmed peacekeepers into a shooting war with a mandate to be neutral in the face of criminal violence. Nevertheless, their very presence stopped the wholesale slaughter, which before their arrival had taken 250,000 lives. When the Security Council created the safe havens such as Sbrinica, it did the right thing. The obligation was to save innocent people. The concept was not wrong. The failure was the Security Council’s unwillingness to provide the resources to protect those safe havens despite the pleas of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali. The world was outraged by the massacre at Sbrinica. The UN Secretariat, as its recent reports candidly state, bears an important responsibility but the Security Council, which refused it the proper mandate and resources also bears the responsibility. The Dayton Accord, brilliantly negotiated by Richard Holbrooke, brought an end to the fighting. But peace is a process, not an event. The Balkan cauldron seethes with 600 years of hatred. The United Nations can have a critical role in reconciling ancient enemies and building the framework of a civil society. But this is the work of a generation and undoubtedly longer—and the very possibility of success depends on dedicated leadership, such as that being provided by Bernard Kouchner, and a willingness of Europe and America to make the necessary resources available.
Ronald Reagan in a speech at Oxford University in December 1992 spoke to the future of the United Nations:
“And now the United Nations has been liberated by the end of the Cold War. We are at last able to recognize the vision of its founding fathers. Just as the world’s democracies banded together to advance the cause of freedom in the face of totalitarianism, might we not now unite to impose civilized standards of behavior on those who flout every measure of human decency? Are we not nearing a point in world history where civilized nations can in unison stand up to the most immoral and deadly excesses against humanity?”
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Kofi Atta Annan (pron.: / ˈ k oʊ f i ˈ æ n ə n /; born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
From 23 February until 31 August 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution, stating that "when the Syrian people desperately need action, there continues to be finger-pointing and name-calling in the Security Council."
Early years and education
Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi in the Gold Coast on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Ataa, who died in 1991, shares the middle name Atta, which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's aristocratic families; both their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs.
In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or in relation to how many children precede them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday.
Pronunciation: Annan has said his surname rhymes with "cannon" in English.
From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school taught him "that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere". In 1957, the year Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast gained independence from Britain and began using the name "Ghana".
In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961. Annan then did a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62. After some years of work experience, he studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree.
Annan is fluent in English, French, Akan, some Kru languages and other African languages.
Early career
In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations (UN). From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana. In the late 1980s, Annan returned to work for the UN, where he was appointed as an Assistant Secretary-General in three consecutive positions: Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator (1987–1990); Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller (1990–1992); and Peacekeeping Operations (March 1993 – December 1996).
The Rwandan Genocide took place in 1994 while Annan directed UN Peacekeeping Operations. In 2003 Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, claimed that Annan was overly passive in his response to the imminent genocide. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003), General Dallaire asserted that Annan held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict, and from providing more logistical and material support. Dallaire claimed that Annan failed to provide responses to his repeated faxes asking for access to a weapons depository; such weapons could have helped Dallaire defend the endangered Tutsis. In 2004, ten years after the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan said, "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support."
Annan served as Under-Secretary-General from March 1994 to October 1995. He was appointed a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia, serving for five months before returning to his duties as Under-Secretary-General in April 1996.
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Appointment
On 13 December 1996, the United Nations Security Council recommended Annan to replace the previous Secretary-General, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, whose second term faced the veto of the United States. Confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly, he started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997.
Activities
In April 2001, Annan issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Stating it was a "personal priority", Annan proposed a Global AIDS and Health Fund to stimulate the increased international spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis. On 10 December 2001, Annan and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world".
In the years after 1998 when UNSCOM was kicked out by the government of Saddam Hussein and during the Iraq disarmament crisis, in which the United States blamed UNSCOM and former IAEA director Hans Blix for failing to properly disarm Iraq, Scott Ritter the former UNSCOM chief weapons inspector, blamed Annan for being slow and ineffective in enforcing Security Council resolutions on Iraq and was overtly submissive to the demands of the Clinton administration for regime removal and inspection of sites, often Presidential palaces, that were not mandated in any resolution and were of questionable intelligence value, which severely hampered UNSCOM's ability to cooperate with the Iraqi government and contributed to their expulsion from the country. Ritter also claimed that Annan regularly interfered with the work of the inspectors and diluted the chain of command by trying to micromanage all of the activities of UNSCOM, which caused intelligence processing (and the resulting inspections) to be backed up and caused confusion with the Iraqis as to who was in charge and as a result, they generally refused to take orders from Ritter or Rolf Ekéus without explicit approval from Annan, which could have taken days, if not weeks. He later believed that Annan was oblivious to the fact the Iraqis took advantage of this in order to delay inspections. He claimed that on one occasion, Annan refused to implement a no-notice inspection of the SSO headquarters and instead tried to negotiate access, but the negotiation ended up taking nearly six weeks, giving the Iraqis more than enough time to clean out the site.
During the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without the support of the United Nations. In a September 2004 interview on the BBC, when questioned about the legal authority for the invasion, Annan said he believed it was not in conformity with the UN charter and was illegal.
Annan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disagreed sharply on Iran's nuclear program, on an Iranian exhibition of cartoons mocking the Holocaust, and on the then upcoming International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, an Iranian Holocaust denial conference in 2006. During a visit to Iran instigated by continued Iranian uranium enrichment, Annan said "I think the tragedy of the Holocaust is an undeniable historical fact and we should really accept that fact and teach people what happened in World War II and ensure it is never repeated."
Annan supported sending a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, Sudan. He worked with the government of Sudan to accept a transfer of power from the African Union peacekeeping mission to a UN one. Annan also worked with several Arab and Muslim countries on women's rights and other topics.
Beginning in 1998, Annan convened an annual UN "Security Council Retreat" with the 15 States' representatives of the Council. It was held at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Conference Centre at the Rockefeller family estate at Pocantico, and was sponsored by both the RBF and the UN.
Lubbers sexual-harassment investigation
In June 2004, Annan was given a copy of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) report on the complaint brought by four women workers against Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees for sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and retaliation. The report also reviewed a long-serving staff member's allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Werner Blatter, Director of UNHCR Personnel. The investigation found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment; no mention was made publicly of the other charge against a senior official, or two subsequent complaints filed later that year. In the course of the official investigation, Lubbers wrote a letter which some considered was a threat to the female worker who had brought the charges. On 15 July 2004, Annan cleared Lubbers of the accusations, saying they were not substantial enough legally. His decision held until November 2004. When the OIOS issued its annual report to the UN General Assembly, it stated that it had found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment. These events were widely reported and weakened Annan's influence.
On 17 November 2004, Annan accepted an OIOS report clearing Dileep Nair, UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, of political corruption and sexual harassment charges. Some UN staff in New York disagreed with this conclusion, leading to extended debate on 19 November.
The internal UNn-OIOS report on Lubbers was leaked, and sections accompanied by an article by Kate Holt were published in a British newspaper. In February 2005, he resigned as head of the UN refugee agency. Lubbers said he wanted to relieve political pressure on Annan.
Oil-for-Food scandal
In December 2004, reports surfaced that the Secretary-General's son Kojo Annan received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations.
Annan appointed the Independent Inquiry Committee, which was led by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, then the director of the United Nations Association of the US. In his first interview with the Inquiry Committee, Annan denied having had a meeting with Cotecna. Later in the inquiry, he recalled that he had met with Cotecna's chief executive Elie-Georges Massey twice. In a final report issued on 27 October, the committee found insufficient evidence to indict Kofi Annan on any illegal actions, but did find fault with Benan Sevan, a Cypriot national who had worked for the UN for about 40 years. Appointed by Annan to the Oil-For-Food role, Sevan repeatedly asked Iraqis for allocations of oil to the African Middle East Petroleum Company. Sevan's behaviour was "ethically improper", Volcker said to reporters. Sevan repeatedly denied the charges and argued that he was being made a "scapegoat". The Volcker report was highly critical of the UN management structure and the Security Council oversight. It strongly recommended a new position be established of Chief Operating Officer (COO), to handle the fiscal and administrative responsibilities than under the Secretary General's office. The report listed the companies, both Western and Middle Eastern, that benefited illegally from the program.
Relations between the United States and the United Nations
Kofi Annan supported his deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized the United States in a speech on 6 June 2006: "[T]he prevailing practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable. You will lose the UN one way or another. [...] [That] the US is constructively engaged with the UN [...] is not well known or understood, in part because much of the public discourse that reaches the US heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News." Malloch later said his talk was a "sincere and constructive critique of U.S. policy toward the U.N. by a friend and admirer."
The talk was unusual because it violated unofficial policy of not having top officials publicly criticize member nations. The interim U.S. ambassador John R. Bolton, appointed by President George W. Bush, was reported to have told Annan on the phone: "I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time." Observers from other nations supported Malloch's view that conservative politicians in the US prevented many citizens from understanding the benefits of US involvement in the UN.
UN Resolution 61/225: World Diabetes Day
Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations General Assembly's passage of UN Resolution 61/225, to establish World Diabetes Day. The Resolution was the second UN General Assembly Resolution on a health-related issue (the other being HIV/AIDS). Resolution 61/225 is the only Health-related UN Resolution to pass by consensus. Sponsored by the Republic of South Africa and Bangladesh, the Resolution was passed on 20 December 2006.
Farewell addresses
On 19 September 2006, Annan gave a farewell address to world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, in anticipation of his retirement on 31 December. In the speech he outlined three major problems of "an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights and the rule of law", which he believes "have not resolved, but sharpened" during his time as Secretary-General. He also pointed to violence in Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict as two major issues warranting attention.
On 11 December 2006, in his final speech as Secretary-General, delivered at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, Annan recalled Truman's leadership in the founding of the United Nations. He called for the United States to return to President Truman's multilateralist foreign policies, and to follow Truman's credo that "the responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world". He also said that the United States must maintain its commitment to human rights, "including in the struggle against terrorism."
Recommendations for UN reform
Soon after taking office in 1997, Annan released two reports on management reform. On 17 March 1997, the report ‘Management and Organisational Measures’ (A/51/829) introduced new management mechanisms through the establishment of a cabinet-style body to assist him and be grouping the UN’s activities in accordance with four core missions. A comprehensive reform agenda was issued on 14 July 1997 entitled ‘Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform’ (A/51/950). Key proposals included the introduction of strategic management to strengthen unity of purpose, the establishment of the position of Deputy Secretary-General, a 10-percent reduction in posts, a reduction in administrative costs, the consolidation of the UN at the country level, and reaching out to civil society and the private sector as partners. Annan also proposed to hold a Millennium Summit in 2000. After years of research, Annan presented a progress report, In Larger Freedom, to the UN General Assembly, on 21 March 2005. Annan recommended Security Council expansion and a host of other UN reforms.
On 31 January 2006, Kofi Annan outlined his vision for a comprehensive and extensive reform of the UN in a policy speech to the United Nations Association UK. The speech, delivered at Central Hall, Westminster, also marked the 60th Anniversary of the first meetings of the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council.
On 7 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his proposals for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations Secretariat. The reform report is entitled: "Investing in the United Nations, For a Stronger Organization Worldwide".
On 30 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his analysis and recommendations for updating the entire work programme of the United Nations Secretariat over the last 60 years. The report is entitled: "Mandating and Delivering: Analysis and Recommendations to Facilitate the Review of Mandates".
Regarding the UN Human Rights Council, Annan has said "declining credibility" had "cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system. Unless we re-make our human rights machinery, we may be unable to renew public confidence in the United Nations itself." However, he does believe that, despite its flaws, the council can do good.
Post-UN career
Upon his return to Ghana, Annan was immediately suggested as a candidate to become the country's next President.
He has become involved with several organizations with both global and African focuses. In 2007, Annan was named chairman of the prize committee for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, was chosen to lead the new formation of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, and was selected for the MacArthur Foundation Award for International Justice.
Annan is a member of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues. In November 2008, Annan and fellow Elders Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel attempted to travel to Zimbabwe to make a first-hand assessment of the humanitarian situation in the country. Refused entry, the Elders instead carried out their assessment from Johannesburg, where they met Zimbabwe- and South Africa-based leaders from politics, business, international organisations and civil society. In May 2011, following months of political violence in Côte d’Ivoire, Annan travelled to the country with Elders Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson to encourage national reconciliation.
In the beginning of 2008, as head of the Panel of Eminent African Personalities, Annan participated in the negotiations to end the civil unrest in Kenya. He threatened to leave the negotiations as mediator if a quick decision was not made. On 26 February 2008 he suspended talks to end Kenya's violent post-election crisis. On 28 February, Annan managed to have President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga sign a coalition government agreement and was widely lauded by many Kenyans for this landmark achievement. That was the best deal achieved then under the mediation efforts.
Annan is a member of the Club of Madrid. Annan currently serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion USD gift to support UN causes. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN.
Annan chairs the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. Every year, the Panel releases a report, the Africa Progress Report, that outlines an issue of immediate importance to the continent and suggests a set of associated policies. In 2012, the Africa Progress Report highlighted issues of Jobs, Justice, and Equity. The 2013 report will outline issues relating to oil, gas, and mining in Africa.
Kofi Annan was appointed the Chancellor of the University of Ghana in 2008.
Annan has signed up to be one of the Counsellors at One Young World a non-profit organisation which hopes to bring together 1500 young global leaders of tomorrow from every country in the world.
In May 2009 Columbia University announced that Annan will join a new program being launched by Dean John Coatsworth at the School of International and Public Affairs as one of the first group of Global Fellows. The Global Fellows program will bring students together with global practitioners to share firsthand knowledge of experiences in the life of an international or public figure. He is also a fellow of The Committee on Global Thought appointed by the University.
On 2 September 2009, Annan was unveiled as the first Li Ka Shing Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The announcement was made during the school's 5th anniversary celebrations.
On 7 October 2010, Annan was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Global Center for Pluralism, Canada’s new international research and education center dedicated to the study and practice of pluralism worldwide. The Global Centre for Pluralism is an initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan in partnership with the Government of Canada. The Center is located at 330 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to the creation of successful societies, the Centre is founded on the premise that tolerance, openness and understanding towards the cultures, social structures, values and faiths of other peoples are essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development.
A member of the Fondation Chirac's honour committee when former French president Jacques Chirac launched it in 2008, Kofi Annan participates as jury member for the Prize for Conflict Prevention awarded every year by this foundation. He also created the Kofi Annan Foundation dedicated to sustainable development and peace.
Work in Syria
On 23 February 2012, Annan was appointed as the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, in an attempt to end the civil war taking place. He developed a six-point plan for peace:
commit to work with the Envoy in an inclusive Syrian-led political process to address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people, and, to this end, commit to appoint an empowered interlocutor when invited to do so by the Envoy;
commit to stop the fighting and achieve urgently an effective United Nations supervised cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties to protect civilians and stabilise the country.
To this end, the Syrian government should immediately cease troop movements towards, and end the use of heavy weapons in, population centres, and begin pullback of military concentrations in and around population centres.
As these actions are being taken on the ground, the Syrian government should work with the Envoy to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism.
Similar commitments would be sought by the Envoy from the opposition and all relevant elements to stop the fighting and work with him to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism;
ensure timely provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting, and to this end, as immediate steps, to accept and implement a daily two hour humanitarian pause and to coordinate exact time and modalities of the daily pause through an efficient mechanism, including at local level;
intensify the pace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons, including especially vulnerable categories of persons, and persons involved in peaceful political activities, provide without delay through appropriate channels a list of all places in which such persons are being detained, immediately begin organizing access to such locations and through appropriate channels respond promptly to all written requests for information, access or release regarding such persons;
ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists and a non-discriminatory visa policy for them;
respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully as legally guaranteed.
On 2 August, he resigned as U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, citing the intransigence of both the Assad government and the rebels, as well as the stalemate on the Security Council as preventing any peaceful resolution of the situation. He also stated that the lack of international unity and ineffective diplomacy among the world leaders has made the peaceful resolution in Syria an impossible task.
Memoir
On 4 September 2012, Annan published his memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, written with Nader Mousavizadeh, ISBN 978-159420420-3. The book is described as a personal biography of so-called global statecraft.
Personal life
In 1965 Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from a well-to-do family. Several years later they had a daughter Ama and later a son Kojo. The couple separated in the late seventies. In 1984 Annan remarried to Nane Lagergren - a Swedish lawyer at the U.N. and niece of Raoul Wallenberg.
Honours and awards
Honours
2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana
2000: Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
2001: Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania
2005: Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty (Portugal)
2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria
2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II (UK)
2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Awards
2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of Lifetime Achievement
2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations
2002: winner of the " Profiles in Courage Award", given by the JFK Memorial Museum
2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service.
2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen
2006: International World Order of Culture, Science and Education, Award of the European Academy of Informatization, Belgium
2006: Inter Press Service, International Achievement Award for Annan's lasting contributions to peace, security, and development
2006: Olof Palme Prize
2007: Wooden Crossbow, special award from the Swiss World Economic Forum
2007: People in Europe Award of Verlagsgruppe Passau
2007: MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Award for International Justice
2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe
2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize
2008: Harvard University Honours Prize
2008: Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize – Münster (Westfalen)
2008: Open Society Award – CEU Business School Budapest
2011: Gothenburg Award
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Kofi Atta Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
In office
January 1, 1997 – December 31, 2006 Preceded by Boutros Boutros-Ghali Succeeded by Ban Ki-moon Born April 8, 1938
Kumasi, Ghana Spouse Titi Alakija (div.)
Nane Maria Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Early years and family
Kofi Annan ( IPA: /kofi ænən/) was born to Victoria and Henry Reginald Annan in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana. He is a twin, an occurrence that is regarded as special in Ghanaian culture. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shares the middle name 'Atta', which in Fante means 'twin'. As with most Akan names, his first name indicates the day of the week he was born: Kofi denotes a boy born on a Friday. The name Annan can indicate that a child was the fourth in the family, but in Kofi's family at some time in the past it became a family name, and Kofi inherited it from his parents. Annan's surname is frequently mispronounced as /ə nonˈ/ or /a nonˈ/. In an interview on National Public Radio, shortly after taking office as U.N. Secretary General, he was asked how to say his name, and explained that the correct pronunciation rhymes with "cannon"; thus, /ænən/.
Annan's family was part of the country's elite; both of his grandfathers and his uncle were tribal chiefs. His father was half Asante and half Fante; his mother was Fante. Annan's father worked for a long period as an export manager for the Lever Brothers cocoa company.
Annan is married to Nane Maria Annan, a Swedish lawyer and artist who is the half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg. He has two children, Kojo and Ama, from his previous marriage to Nigerian Titi Alakija. He and Alakija divorced in the late 1970s. Nane Annan also has one child, Nina Cronstedt de Groot, from a previous marriage.
Education
From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school taught him "that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere". In 1957, the year Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, Ghana became the first British colony in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence.
In 1958, Annan began studying for a degree in economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961. Annan then studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales IUHEI) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62, later attending the MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) Sloan Fellows programme and receiving a Master of Science (M.S.) degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Annan is fluent in English, French, Kru, other dialects of Akan, and other African languages.
Early career
In 1962, Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations. From 1974 to 1976, Annan worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana.
Following that, he returned to work for the United Nations as an Assistant Secretary-General in three consecutive positions: Human Resources Management and Security Coordinator from 1987 to 1990, Programme Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller from 1990 to 1992, and Peacekeeping Operations from March 1993 to February 1994.
In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, ex-General Roméo Dallaire who was force commander of the UNAMIR claims that Annan has been overly passive in his response to the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Gen. Dallaire explicitly stated that the then Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict and from providing more logistic and material support. For example, he claimed that Annan failed to provide any responses to Dallaire's repeated faxes asking him for access to a weapons depository, something that could have helped defend the Tutsis. Dallaire concedes however that Annan was a man whom he found extremely "committed" to the founding principles of the United Nations.
Annan was then an Under-Secretary-General until October 1995, when he was made a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia, serving for five months in this capacity and returning to his duties as Under-Secretary-General in April 1996.
Secretary-General of the United Nations
On December 13, 1996, Annan was selected by the United Nations Security Council to be Secretary-General, and was confirmed four days later by vote of the General Assembly. Annan took the oath of office without delay, starting his first term as Secretary-General on January 1, 1997. Annan replaced outgoing Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, becoming the first person from a black African nation to serve as Secretary-General.
Annan's tenure as Secretary-General was renewed on January 1, 2002, in an unusual deviation from informal policy. The office usually rotates among the continents, with two terms each; since Annan's predecessor Boutros-Ghali was also an African, Annan normally would have served only one term, indicating Annan's unusual popularity.
Mark Malloch Brown succeeded Louise Frechette as Annan's Deputy Secretary-General in April 2006.
In April 2001, the Secretary-General issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Annan sees this pandemic as his "personal priority" as Secretary-General and in life in general. He proposed the establishment of a Global AIDS and Health Fund to stimulate increased spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis.
On December 10, 2001, Annan and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world".
During the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without the support of the United Nations. In a September 2004 interview on the BBC, Annan was asked about the legal authority for the invasion, and responded, "from our point of view and from the Charter point of view it was illegal."
Annan supports sending a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, Sudan, and is working with the government of Sudan to accept a transfer of power from the African Union peacekeeping mission to a UN one. Annan is also working with several Arab and Muslim countries on women's rights and other topics.
Since 1998, Annan has convened an annual UN Security Council Retreat with 15 States representatives of the Council at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Conference Centre at the Rockefeller family estate at Pocantico (see Kykuit), which is sponsored by both the RBF and the UN. . He is also a strong supporter and guest of the family's Asia Society in New York.
On September 19, 2006, Annan gave a farewell address in anticipation of his retirement on December 31. In the speech he outlined three major problems of "an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights and the rule of law" which he believes "have not resolved, but sharpened" during his time as Secretary-General. He also pointed to violence in Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict as two major issues warranting attention.
UN controversies during Annan's tenure
Lubbers sexual harassment investigation
In June 2004, Annan was given a copy of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) report on the complaint of sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and retaliation against Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and sexual harassment and misconduct as well against Werner Blatter, Director of UNHCR Personnel by a long-serving staff member. The investigation report found Ruud Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment and no mention was made publicly of the other charge against a senior official or the two subsequent complaints she filed later that year. In the course of the official investigation, Lubbers wrote a letter that some speculate was a threat to the female worker who had brought the charges of misconduct. However, on July 15, 2004, Lubbers was declared innocent by Kofi Annan. His decision only lasted until November when OIOS issued its annual report to the UN General Assembly noting it has found Lubbers guilty. Widely reported in the media, these events served to weaken Annan's position.
On November 17, 2004, Annan accepted a report clearing UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services Dileep Nair of graft and sexual harassment charges, some viewed as retaliation against Nair for supporting the complainant in the Lubbers affair. Still, clearance was not viewed favorably by some UN staff in New York, leading to extensive debate on November 19.
Administration of the Oil-for-Food Programme
In December 2004, reports surfaced that the Secretary-General's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Programme. Kofi Annan called for an investigation into this matter.
The Independent Inquiry Committee into The United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme was appointed by Annan and led by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, in spite of the latter's strong ideological ties to the UN as director of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. In his first interview with the Inquiry Committee, Annan denied having had a meeting with Cotecna. Later in the inquiry he recalled that he had met with Cotecna's chief executive Elie-Georges Massey twice. In a final report issued on October 27, the committee exonerated Kofi Annan of any illegal actions, but found fault with the UN management structure and the Security Council oversight. It strongly recommended a new position of Chief Operating Officer to handle the fiscal and administrative responsibilities which currently fall to the Secretary General's office. The report listed the companies, both Western and Middle Eastern, who illegally benefited from the programme. Some believe the committee and its outcome to have been politically motivated.
Conflict between the United States and the United Nations
Kofi Annan supported his deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized the United States media in a speech on June 6, 2006: 'The prevailing practice of seeking to use the U.N. almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable...You will lose the U.N. one way or another.' US ambassador John R. Bolton said to Annan on the phone: 'I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen in that entire time.'
Annan's recommendations for U.N. reform
On March 21, 2005, Annan presented a progress report, In Larger Freedom, to the UN General Assembly. Annan recommended Security Council expansion and a host of other UN reforms.
On March 7, 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his proposals for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations Secretariat. The reform report is entitled: "Investing in the United Nations, For a Stronger Organization Worldwide".
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As technology, trade, and globalization tie the world’s cultures and communities ever closer together, the responsibility of each to guarantee and protect the well-being of the others grows in step — and that goes for nations and corporations alike.
That was the message that Kofi Annan, SF ’72, SM ’72, the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1996 to 2007, had for members of the MIT Sloan community in October of 2002, when he spoke to mark the 50th anniversary of his alma mater.
Annan, the first black African to hold the top U.N. post, died Saturday at the age of 80 from a short and unspecified illness.
In the talk, Annan said his time as an MIT Sloan Fellow during the early part of his career, which he spent almost entirely with the U.N., broadened his perspective on how to achieve international change and cooperation.
“Sloan looked well beyond the confines of this campus, encouraged people from many nations to study here, and was eager to advance the cause of international cooperation, scholarly and otherwise,” Annan said.
That education would come in handy later on, he noted, as he helped the U.N. navigate some of its most challenging moments and found himself negotiating across from many of the world’s most powerful leaders.
Halfway through his tenure as secretary-general, Annan and the U.N. were jointly awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for their work to create a “better organized and more peaceful world,” containing the spread of HIV in Africa and working to oppose international terrorism.
But Annan also faced his fair share of challenging diplomatic situations. As the U.N.’s chief of peacekeeping, he oversaw the response to the Rwandan genocide of the mid-1990s, and later worked feverishly in an attempt to dissuade the United States from launching its 2003 invasion of Iraq. He told Time magazine in 2013 that his failure to prevent that action was “his darkest moment.”
Even after he left the U.N., he returned in various capacities, being tapped in 2012 to help find a resolution for the still-raging civil war in Syria. He also launched the Kofi Annan Foundation, a nonprofit that works to promote better global governance and world peace.
The challenges facing the world are much the same now as they were in 2002 — cultural distrust leading to violence, uncertainty in the markets raising global anxiety, and concerns that globalization is enriching a select few at the expense of the many. But Annan’s emphasis on shared responsibility led to the formation of partnerships between the U.N., major corporations, and the world’s governments designed to ensure sustainable progress for all during his tenure.
Annan, in the MIT Sloan speech, emphasized the importance of trust and understanding among the world’s governing institutions and highlighted the crucial role of global business in helping to solve those problems.
“Businesses may ask why they should go down this path, especially if it involves taking steps that competitors might not, or steps they feel are rightly the province of governments,” he said. “Sometimes, doing what is right … is in the immediate interest of business.”
Corporations, he said, should see it as their responsibility to use their resources to pass knowledge, technology, and training along to the communities in which they operate.
When German car manufacturer Volkswagen found that it was losing some of its best managers to HIV/AIDS in Brazil, Annan described, the company implemented an education and treatment program, which saw the employees survive to pass the same information on to their communities.
He continued: “Sometimes we must do what is right simply because not to do so would be wrong. And sometimes, we do what is right to help usher in a new day, of new norms and new behaviors. We do not want business to do anything different from their normal business; we want them to do their normal business differently.”
Absent that effort, he said, the world risks rejecting global citizenship and retreating into protectionism and isolation, to the detriment of all.
“All of us — the private sector, civil society, labor unions, NGOs, universities, foundations, and individuals — must come together in an alliance for progress,” Annan said. “Together, we can and must move from value to values, from shareholders to stakeholders, and from balance sheets to balanced development. Together, we can and must face the dangers ahead and bring solutions within reach.”
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Hello Winnie! It is my pleasure.
Kindly tell us your full name
My name is Rejoice Ntiriwaa Ossei-Bremang
What is your current occupation?
I am a renewable energy and clean cooking technologies researcher at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology coupled as an Assistant Lecturer at Cape Coast Technical University. My research focuses on clean energy access, environmental justices and climate change nexus. I am a professional engineer and a member of the Ghana Institution of Engineering.
Please tell us a little bit about your background; from childhood to where you are now
Born to Ghanaian parents, Francis and Dora Adjei-Bremang, I spent my formative years at Effiduase Koforidua, in the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. I attended Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High School and went on to study at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, graduating with a degree in Agricultural Engineering. I hold an MPhil, and are currently doing my PhD in Sustainable Energy Technologies at the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the same university. I became the foundation head mistress and was promoted to a project director at Alma Mater Education, a UK based charity organization for implementing a free senior high school project in rural Ghana prior to the national free Senior School Education initiative by the current government. I am also a member of the International Association of Engineers. Every experience and privilege I have had to go through in life has resulted from the mercies and favour of EL-Roi, and I do not take that for granted.
What have you found inspiring along this journey called life?
I am glad to have a good support system, made of family, friends and loved ones. They always show up for me when the going gets tough. I thank God for sending such priceless people my way. Also, I was oriented as a child to leave the world a better place than I found it, no matter how minute my contribution might be. To live a life of legacy has been my greatest desire. Growing up, I have always wanted to be a model of hope and resilience for the next generation. I feel that young people should resolve in their minds that no matter the circumstances they face in life, there will always be a better solution. That’s only if they are ready to push forward.
What do you enjoy doing outside work?
I spend my free time igniting passion in girls. I embark on the ‘Normalize STEM for Girls’ campaign for young girls. These workshops aim at encouraging young girls to take up STEM related courses and careers, as a way of bursting gender-based stereotypes in our area of expertise.
What have been some of your achievements in life?
I am the founder of JEIKOA Energy, a private consulting start up enterprise for renewable energy and energy access projects in Ghana. I am also an ambassador for 1 million girls in STEM, an initiative by WomEng (Women in Engineering), which is endorsed by the UNESCO. I am privileged to be part of the shortlisted participants from Africa and Asia for the on-going inaugural cohort of the Women in Clean Cooking Mentorship program organized by Sustainable Energy for All, Clean Cooking Alliance, and Global Women Network for Energy Transition. I also have a publication on “A decision support system for the selection of sustainable biomass resources for bioenergy generation” in a Springer journal. Lastly, for today, I am the founder of a grass root volunteer group called energy environment and climate hub (EEC hub).
What is your favourite quote?
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to go there.” ~ Kofi Annan
What advice do you give to young girls in STEM?
The only blockade between you and your vision is your mind. Have faith in God and the potential He has endowed you with. You were created differently and uniquely from everyone else, so don’t look down on yourself. Have the mental fortitude and the spirit of resilience to thrive through life’s roller coasters, until you have achieved your goal.
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As the world mourns the passing of Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, the pain of his passing is being felt intensely in St. Paul, where Annan got his start as a young student at Macalester College.
“We are both shocked and deeply saddened. He seemed like one of those people that would go on forever,” said Brian Rosenberg, president of Macalester College, where Annan graduated in 1961.
Rosenberg first met Annan in 2004 and got to know the loyal alumnus and former Macalester trustee well as Annan returned several times over the years to speak at the college.
“He was the clearest and most famous embodiment of our mission,” he said. “We feel like we’ve lost a little part of ourselves.”
Annan attended Macalester from 1959 to 1961, earning a degree in economics and setting a school track record in the 60-yard dash.
“He was an outstanding orator,” Roger Mosvick, Annan’s former communications professor, told the Pioneer Press in 1998. “He was a very bright guy who had this ability to adapt to virtually any situation.”
This adeptness in speech contests, of which Annan won several, would serve him well as he went on to join the the United Nations’ World Health Organization in 1962 and later became the U.N.’s secretary-general — a post where he had to react to crisis situations, wars and controversy.
Born to a family of chiefs of the Fante tribe in Ghana, his father was a businessman and provincial governor and his mother was a homemaker. While studying at Ghana’s University of Science and Technology, Annan was offered a scholarship from the Ford Foundation’s Foreign Students Leadership Project. It was this opportunity that brought him to St. Paul. In 1959, he left Ghana to study economics at Macalester. This was his first trip out of Africa and into another culture.
Annan never forgot the warm welcome he received in the cold state of Minnesota.
In a speech in 1994, he described his feelings for Macalester: “We were not merely greeted with tolerance, we were welcomed with warmth.”
Annan returned to the college several times over the years to give commencement speeches. In May he was honored by the college when it renamed its Institute for Global Citizenship as the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship.
“He was obviously an enormous source of pride for us,” Rosenberg said. “I’m really glad he was able to be here and celebrate that with us.”
Fellow student Jack Mason, who became a U.S. magistrate judge and passed away in 2002, was on the speech team with Annan in 1961.
Mason told the Pioneer Press in 1998 that the team would pile into a car and drive all over the state for contests, but the traveling and lack of sleep never seemed to bother Annan.
“Kofi would get out of the car … and he’d be so eloquent and give these speeches that were really something,” Mason said.
That would be another quality Annan would retain throughout his career has he jetted all over the world to give speeches representing the United Nations.
David Lanegran, a former professor of geography at Macalester and a member of the graduating class of 1963, said there was one thing Annan was not good at: American football.
“He could not catch the football to save his soul,” Lanegran told the Pioneer Press in 1998. “I think he had one of the shorter football careers at Macalester.”
In 1984, Annan married Nane Lagergren, a Swedish-born attorney and abstract painter who is the niece of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Hungary who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis. Together they had three children.
Besides Annan’s abilities and accomplishments, what folks from Macalester remember most about him was his humility.
Rosenberg said the humble foreign student from Africa who grew up to become one of the most powerful men in the world never changed in character.
“The most impressive thing about Kofi Annan was that he was even more impressive in private than he was in public,” Rosenberg said. “He never acted like he was more important than you.”
When Annan and his wife visited in May, Rosenberg was reminded again of his friend’s humility when Annan asked for a member of the custodial staff who cleaned the guest house to come see him so he could thank him.
“He took a picture with him,” Rosenberg said. “It really kind of captured the kind of person that he was.”
As the college processes the passing of its most famous son, Rosenberg has found himself thinking back over their many conversations through the years and still being inspired by Annan.
“His faith in the future gives me faith in the future,” Rosenberg said. “He and I taped one interview that we have not yet released. One of the last things he talked about was that change is hard and change takes time. It takes persistence. Sometimes that’s difficult for all of us to remember. I would want to thank him for reminding me of that. If anyone had the right to be frustrated, it would be him. But he never gave up. He just kept working.”
Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, on May 7, 2018, speaks at a reception celebrating the 30th anniversary of Books for Africa, a St. Paul-based nonprofit that collects and ships books to that continent. (Nick Woltman / Pioneer Press)
Macalester College graduate and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan laughs during his appearance at the Institute for Global Citizenship in Markim Hall in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. A life-size bronze bust of the Nobel Peace Prize winner was unveiled at Annan's alma mater. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, appearance at the Institute for Global Citizenship in Markim Hall in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 when a life-size bronze bust of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, left, was unveiled a Macalester College, Annan's alma mater. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
Macalester College graduate and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, is greeted by donor Ruth Stricker Dayton at the Institute for Global Citizenship in Markim Hall in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. A life-size bronze bust of the Nobel Peace Prize winner was unveiled at Annan's alma mater. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited Macalester College in St. Paul on Saturday, April 22, 2006. Annan, along with student leaders raised a new United Nations flag and then spoke to a packed house in the Macalester Field House. (Scott Takushi / Pioneer Press)
In this Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004 photo Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, receives the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, at Buckingham Palace, in London. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004 photo United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anna, right, greets United States President George Bush, before the opening of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations, in New York. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
In this photo dated Sunday, 10 Aug, 1997, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, right, and UN General Secretary Kofi Annan, sit in a rowboat on a lake near the Swedish premiere's summer residence in Harpsund, Sweden. It is a tradition many decades old for the Swedish Prime Minister to row at Harpsund with foreign visitors. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Bertil Ericson, FILE)
In this Thursday Jan. 23, 1997 photo President Clinton looks on as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan answers a reporters question during their joint news conference at the White House after their Oval Office meeting. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson, File)
President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, right, and his wife Nane laugh at a joke during comments welcoming the Clinton's to New York at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Sunday, Sept. 21, 1997. United States Ambassador to the UN Bill Richardson, joked that he hoped all the gathered dignitaries were legally parked - a reference to an earlier diplomatic parking fracas between the UN and the city of New York. (AP Photo/UN, DPI photo by Evan Schneider)
In this Sunday, July 22, 2007 photo Nelson Mandela and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrive together at the 5th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, held at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg, South Africa. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo, File)
In this photo dated Tuesday Aug. 12, 1997, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, centre, inspects the Swedish army base SWEDINT, south of Stockholm, with Swedish defense minister, Bjoern von Sydow, left. The SWEDINT is a training camp for Swedish UN soldiers. Kofi Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (Evan P Schneider/UN via AP, FILE)
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, second left, and U.N. Force Commander in South Lebanon Gen. Sath Kofi Obeng, left, attend a ceremony in honor of the U.N. soldiers killed in South Lebanon since 1978, at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Forces in Southern Lebanon (UNIFSL) Monday June 19, 2000 in the village of Naqoura, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Beirut, near the Israeli border. Annan said Monday that the world body would take firm action against any violations of a U.N.-certified border between Lebanon and Israel. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
In this photo dated Wednesday, March 5, 1997, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a meeting in Annan's U.N. office, as Arafat sought support for his stand against a planned Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. Kofi Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, FILE)
In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan in Moscow, Russia. Putin says he admired former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan whose death was announced on Saturday for his wisdom and courage. Kofi Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
In this photo dated Thursday, May 8, 1997, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, left, greets visiting UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Zhongnanhai, the official compound of the Chinese leadership. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018.(Hitone Saka/Pool via AP, FILE)
In this Monday May 2, 2005 photo U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addresses a conference to review to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
In this photo dated Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998, the Iraqi delegation headed by Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, left, and the U.N. delegation headed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, right, meet in Baghdad. Annan is in the Iraqi capital in a three-day trip in a last attempt to reach a peaceful solution to the standoff over weapons inspections between the U.N. and Iraq and avoid a US-led military intervention. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018.(AP Photo/John Isaac/United Nations Pool via AP, FILE)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, delivers a rare speech to the Security Council at the U.N. Monday March 2, 1998, after council members reached tentative agreement on a resolution warning Iraq of ``severest consequences'' if it violates an arms inspection deal. The council began meeting in the evening to vote on the resolution. At right is this month's Security Council President Abdoulie Momodou Sallah ambassador from Gambia. (AP Photo/David Karp)
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan receives an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, during commencement exercises on Sunday, May 17, 1998 at Macalester College. Placing the hood on his robe is Joan Mondale, a 1952 graduate of Macalester. (Joe Rossi / Pioneer Press)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his wife, Nane leave their New York residence for the U.N. after learning that he and the U.N. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Friday, Oct. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/Matt Moyer)
Standing in front of the United Naitons logo, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan speaks during a news conference at United Nations headquarters Friday, Oct. 12, 2001, in New York after he and the UN were awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/David Karp)
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, right, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, second right, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanonv, center, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, second left, and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, left, listen to questions from journalists after a meeting between Annan and the foreign ministers of the permanent members of the Security Council in Geneva, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003. The meeting was about the situation in Iraq. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A journalist films the black ribbon and a bouquet of flowers adorning the portrait of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at U.N. headquarters, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The United Nations flag flies at half staff in honor of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan at U.N. headquarters, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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52 Notable alumni of
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Updated: February 29, 2024
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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is 1334th in the world, 28th in Africa, and 2nd in Ghana by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 52 notable alumni from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
Kofi Annan
Born in
Ghana
Years
1938-2018 (aged 80)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Studied in 1958-1961
Occupations
economistinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
Biography
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela.
Mr Eazi
Born in
Nigeria
Years
1991-.. (age 33)
Occupations
singermusicianbusinessperson
Biography
Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, better known by his stage name Mr Eazi, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record executive. He is the pioneer of Banku music, a fusion of sound he describes as a mixture of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord progressions and patterns. Mr Eazi relocated to Kumasi in 2008 and enrolled at KNUST, where he began booking artists to perform at college parties. He showed interest in music after recording a guest verse on "My Life", a song that gained traction and became a popular record at KNUST. Mr Eazi released his debut mixtape About to Blow in 2013. He gained an international audience following the release of the Efya-assisted single "Skin Tight". His second mixtape, titled Life Is Eazi, Vol. 1 – Accra To Lagos, was released in 2017.
El Anatsui
Born in
Ghana
Years
1944-.. (age 80)
Occupations
installation artistuniversity teacherpainterceramicisttextile artist
Biography
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. He has drawn particular international attention for his "bottle-top installations". These installations consist of thousands of aluminum pieces sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with copper wire, which are then transformed into metallic cloth-like wall sculptures. Such materials, while seemingly stiff and sturdy, are actually free and flexible, which often helps with manipulation when installing his sculptures. Anatsui was included in the 2023 Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
John Dumelo
Born in
Ghana
Years
1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations
fashion designerpoliticianfarmeractor
Biography
John Dumelo is a Ghanaian actor and politician. On 1 April 2014, he emerged as the first Ghanaian to hit a million likes on Facebook. His parents are Mr. John Dumelo, who was a civil engineer, and Mrs. Antoinette Dumelo, a customs officer.
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings
Born in
Ghana
Years
1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations
politician
Biography
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is a Ghanaian politician and the widow of former President Jerry Rawlings, under whose capacity she served as the First Lady of Ghana from 4 June 1979 to 24 September 1979 and from 31 December 1981 to 7 January 2001. In 2016 she became the first woman to run for President of Ghana. In 2018, she launched her book titled It Takes a Woman.
Chris Attoh
Years
1979-.. (age 45)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in art of painting
Occupations
television actoractor
Biography
Chris Attoh is a Ghanaian actor, film director, on-air personality, television presenter and producer. He is best known as "Kwame Mensah" in Nigerian soap opera Tinsel.
Opoku Ware II
Born in
Ghana
Years
1919-1999 (aged 80)
Occupations
lawyermonarchpoliticiandiplomat
Biography
Otumfuo Opoku Ware II was the 15th Asantehene. He succeeded his uncle Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II on 27 July 1970. He ruled for 29 years until his death in February 1999. He was succeeded by Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II.
Matthew Opoku Prempeh
Born in
Ghana
Years
1968-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with master's degree in human biology
Occupations
chairpersonphysicianpolitician
Biography
Matthew Opoku Prempeh is a Ghanaian medical doctor and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and a Member of Parliament for Manhyia South Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is a former Minister of Education. He is popularly known as NAPO. He is currently the Minister of Energy.
Okyeame Kwame
Born in
Ghana
Years
1976-.. (age 48)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with bachelor's degree in musicology
Occupations
songwritercreative directorrapperentrepreneur
Biography
Kwame Nsiah-Apau, known by his stage name Okyeame Kwame and nicknamed Rap Doctor, is a Ghanaian musician, songwriter, creative director and a Developmental Activist. His dual roles as an artist and an activist have led to his recognition as an "artivist."
Aliu Mahama
Born in
Ghana
Years
1946-2012 (aged 66)
Occupations
politician
Biography
Alhaji Aliu Mahama was a Ghanaian engineer and politician who was Vice-President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. A member of the New Patriotic Party, he was Ghana's first Muslim Vice-President.
Amma Darko
Born in
Ghana
Years
1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations
novelistprose writerwriter
Biography
Amma Darko is a Ghanaian novelist. She had won The Golden Baobab Prize for one of her novels. She has published seven novels in total.
Thomas Mensah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations
entrepreneurscientistinventorengineerchemical engineer
Biography
Thomas O. Mensah is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology. He has 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. In 2017, Dr. Mensah served as Editor-in-Chief of the textbook Nanotechnology Commercialization, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Yaw Osei Adutwum
Born in
Ghana
Years
1964-.. (age 60)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
Occupations
politicianeducation activist
Biography
Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, representing the Bosomtwe Constituency in the Ashanti Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He is noted for his unannounced teaching visits to schools, although he is not in active teaching service. On 5 March 2021, Adutwum was appointed by President Nana Akufo-Addo as the Minister of Education in Ghana.
Samuel Abu Jinapor
Born in
Ghana
Years
1983-.. (age 41)
Occupations
politicianlawyer
Biography
Samuel Abu Jinapor pronunciation, is a Ghanaian lawyer and a politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and the Member of Parliament for the Damongo Constituency. In 2017, President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo appointed him as Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Operations at the Office of the President, at the age of 33, the youngest in the history of Ghana to occupy such a position. He is currently the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and assumed position as caretaker Minister of Trade and Industry on 16th January, 2023.
Samuel Nartey George
Years
1985-.. (age 39)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in agricultural technology
Occupations
officialpolitician
Biography
Samuel Nartey George is a Ghanaian politician. He is from Ahwiam, Old Ningo. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress. In November 2015, he defeated the incumbent E. T. Mensah to represent the party in the 2016 parliamentary elections for Ningo-Prampram Constituency. He is currently a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing Ningo-Prampram constituency.
Francisca Oteng-Mensah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1993-.. (age 31)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Laws in law
Occupations
politicianbusinessperson
Biography
Francisca Oteng-Mensah is a member of parliament of the New Patriotic Party for the Kwabre East Constituency and was known as the youngest parliamentarian of the fourth republic of Ghana at the time of her election in 2016.
Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak
Born in
Ghana
Years
1971-.. (age 53)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Master of Science in planning
Graduated with Bachelor of Science
Occupations
politicianquantity surveyorarchitect
Biography
Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka is the Member of Parliament for Asawase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and the 8th parliaments of the 4th Republic of Ghana. He was the Minority Chief Whip in the Parliament of Ghana.
Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations
politicianuniversity teacher
Biography
Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah is a Ghanaian politician and Member of Parliament of Tema West constituency. Also, he was a Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry in Ghana. He is also the CEO of Carlos King Freight Services.
Cassiel Ato Forson
Born in
Ghana
Years
1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations
accountantmanagerpolitician
Biography
Cassiel Ato Baah Forson is a Ghanaian politician and member of parliament from 2009 to date. Dr. Forson first joined the Fifth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, before retaining his seat for the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency in the Central Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. In 2013 he served as the deputy minister for Finance.
Hackman Owusu-Agyeman
Born in
Ghana
Years
1941-.. (age 83)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in agriculture
Occupations
diplomatpoliticianagricultural economist
Biography
Hackman Owusu-Agyemang is a Ghanaian politician and former member of Parliament for New Juaben North constituency of the eastern region of Ghana. He is a member of the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana and a former Minister of Water, Works and Housing as well as a former minister of foreign affairs. He is currently the Chairman of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party and board chairman of the Ghana Cocoa Board.
Ameyaw Debrah
Born in
Ghana
Occupations
bloggerjournalist
Biography
Ameyaw Kissi Debrah, known professionally as Ameyaw Debrah, is a Ghanaian celebrity blogger, freelance journalist, and reporter. He founded AmeyawDebrah.com, an entertainment website and blog that primarily publishes news about Ghanaian celebrities. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in publishing. While at KNUST, he won the Best Publishing Student award in 2005. He has made significant contributions to several pan-African websites, including Jamati.com, Orijin-ent.com, and ModernGhana.com.
Daniel Botwe
Born in
Ghana
Years
1958-.. (age 66)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer science
Occupations
politiciansoftware engineerbusiness executive
Biography
Daniel Kwaku Botwe is a Ghanaian politician. He is the Member of Parliament of Okere constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He served as Minister for Information and National Orientation in the John Agyekum Kufour administration and also served as the Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development and the Minister for Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development in the Nana Akufo-Addo first and second term of office respectively.
Francis Asenso-Boakye
Born in
Ghana
Years
1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations
politicianbusinessperson
Biography
Francis Asenso-Boakye is a Ghanaian politician and businessman. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He is the member of parliament for the Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He was the deputy Chief of Staff and Political Assistant to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; President of the Republic of Ghana. He is currently the Minister for Works and Housing.
Nikki Samonas
Born in
Ghana
Years
1985-.. (age 39)
Occupations
actormodel
Biography
Nikoletta Samonas is a Ghanaian and Greek actress and a freelance model. She is known as Nikki Samonas in the entertainment industry and has had roles in a number of feature films. She is an alumna of both Holy Child High School and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1966-.. (age 58)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in social science
Occupations
politicianmanager
Biography
Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah is a Ghanaian politician who served in the government of Ghana as Minister of Energy and Petroleum in the John Mahama administration from 2013 to 2016. Buah, a member of the National Democratic Congress, is the Member of Parliament of Ellembelle constituency in the Western Region. He was the Deputy Minority Leader in the Parliament of Ghana after replacing James Klutse Avedzi.
Kwaku Kwarteng
Born in
Ghana
Years
1969-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in civil engineering
Occupations
politiciancivil engineereconomist
Biography
Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng is a Ghanaian civil engineer, economist, and politician. He is a two term Member of Parliament for Obuasi West constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is a member of Ghana's New Patriotic Party and a deputy minister of finance.
Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1974-.. (age 50)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in biochemistry
Occupations
directorpolitician
Biography
Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah is a Ghanaian politician and the current Member of Parliament for the Takoradi constituency in the Western Region of Ghana. He had his secondary school at Mfantsipim School. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the deputy minister for Aviation in Ghana.
Andrew Asiamah Amoako
Born in
Ghana
Years
1966-.. (age 58)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Master of Science in Environmental Management
Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
Graduated with diploma
Occupations
politicianlawyer
Biography
Andrew Asiamah Amoako is a Ghanaian lawyer, politician and member of the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, elected to office in December 2020 as an independent candidate. He currently represents the Fomena Constituency in the Ashanti Region. He is also the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
Ray Styles
Born in
Ghana
Years
1988-2020 (aged 32)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in communication design
Occupations
keyboardistartist
Biography
Emmanuel Apraku, also known as Ray Styles, was a Ghanaian pencil artist,. He created his own brand in the form of pencil art, graphic design, and caricature. He worked with celebrities such as Tolu Lope, Josh Ostrovsky, Michael Blackson, Chris Bosh, DeStorm Power, Mrcocoyam, D Black, Edem, King Bach, and Malin Bjork, among others.
Patricia Appiagyei
Born in
Ghana
Years
1956-.. (age 68)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
Occupations
bankerpoliticianeconomist
Biography
Patricia Appiagyei is a Ghanaian politician, one-time Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister and the first female Mayor of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) in the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, representing Asokwa Constituency. She is a member of the New Patriotic Party in Ghana.
George Andah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1970-.. (age 54)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science
Occupations
marketerpoliticianbusinessperson
Biography
George Nenyi Kojo Andah is a Ghanaian politician and the former Member of Parliament of the Awutu Senya West Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and the Deputy Minister for communications in Ghana.
Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed
Born in
Ghana
Years
1974-.. (age 50)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Master of Science
Occupations
politicianteacher
Biography
Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed is Ghanaian politician and member of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. He once served as the member of Parliament for Nanton, the Deputy Minister for Information and Media Relations and the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry.
Stephen Amoah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1970-.. (age 54)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in actuarial science and computer science
Occupations
chief executive officerpoliticianconsultant
Biography
Stephen Amoah is a Ghanaian politician who is a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He is the member of parliament for the Nhyiaeso Constituency. He is currently a board member of GCB Bank.
Benito Owusu Boo
Born in
Ghana
Years
1968-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in land economy
Occupations
politiciangeneral manager
Biography
Benito Owusu Bio is a land economist and Ghanaian politician of the Republic of Ghana. He is the Member of Parliament representing Atwima-Nwabiagya constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana in the 4th,5th,6th, 7th and the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party.
Zita Okaikoi
Born in
Ghana
Years
20th Century
Occupations
politicianlawyer
Biography
Zita Sabah Okaikoi is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Tourism of Ghana and later Ghana's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
Eric Opoku
Born in
Ghana
Years
1970-.. (age 54)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in social science
Occupations
farmerpoliticianteacher
Biography
Eric Opoku is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament and 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Asunafo South Constituency in the Brong-Ahafo Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.
Veronica Bekoe
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
1968-1972 graduated with Bachelor of Science in biology
Occupations
biologist
Biography
Veronica Ayele Bekoe is a biologist from Ghana. She is known for her impact in the invention of the Veronica bucket used to reduce the spread of communicable diseases.
Priscilla Kolibea Mante
Born in
Ghana
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations
scientistneuropharmacologist
Biography
Priscilla Kolibea Mante is a Ghanaian neuropharmacologist, a researcher and lecturer from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, currently based at the Kumasi campus. Her research work focuses on alternatives of plant-based therapeutic options to manage drug-resistant epilepsy and the neglected tropical disease neurocysticercosis. In her work, she mostly explores the anticonvulsant activity of the plant alkaloid cryptolepine and its solid-lipid nanoparticles in the management of neurocysticercosis-induced epilepsy. Her goal is to identify a way to help cryptolepine permeate more efficiently into the central nervous system to reduce the risk of convulsion, helping patients to manage their condition as effectively as possible. Aside from her studies of epilepsy, Mante has also worked toward new therapies to alleviate pain, anxiety, and depression.
Ivy Barley
Occupations
businessperson
Biography
Ivy Barley is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, women in tech activist, and the co-founder of Developers in Vogue. In January 2022, GhanaWeb featured Barley as one of the 3 Ghanaian ‘Women in Tech’ making strides on the international corporate scene. In 2017 and 2019, Barley was listed as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians by Avance Media.
Mike Hammah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1955-.. (age 69)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in architectural technology
Occupations
politicianarchitect
Biography
Mike Allen Hammah is a politician and a former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources of Ghana. He had been the Minister for Transport until January 4, 2011, when he was moved after a cabinet reshuffle by President Mills. He was also the Member of Parliament for the Effutu Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana.
Kwaku Aning
Years
1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations
physicist
Biography
Kwaku Aning is a Ghanaian diplomat, international civil servant and technologist who is Chairman of the governing board of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, having been appointed in July 2017. Aning is a former Deputy Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Della Sowah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1959-.. (age 65)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in social science
Occupations
journalistpoliticianmarketeradvertising person
Biography
Della Sowah is a Ghanaian former Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection. She is also the Member of Parliament for Kpando constituency.
Kwame Anyimadu Antwi
Born in
Ghana
Years
1962-.. (age 62)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Science in land economy
Occupations
educational theoristUnilever Ghanapolitician
Biography
Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He is a member of parliament for Asante-Akim Central constituency in the Seventh Parliament and 8th Parliament of the fourth Republic of Ghana in the Ashanti Region, a position he has held since 2009. He represents the New Patriotic Party. Currently, he is a board member of VRA and also the chairperson for the Ghana National Fire Service Council.
Francis Amenu
Born in
Ghana
Occupations
engineer
Biography
Francis Amenu is a Ghanaian metallurgical engineer who also trained and ordained as a minister. He served in the Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P.) Church, Ghana. In 1999, he was assigned to serve Ghanaian congregations in London, United Kingdom. There in 2003, before returning to Africa, he founded the E.P. Church, UK.
Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Born in
Ghana
Years
1979-.. (age 45)
Occupations
writer
Biography
Bernard Akoi–Jackson, is a Ghanaian academic, artist and writer. He is known for projects that are in continual metamorphosis. His art works are mostly performative, or pseudo-rituals. His writings are focused on the development of contemporary African, Ghanaian visual arts and culture in poetic and jovial manner. He is known as a proverbial jester (or Esu) using critical absurdity to move between installations, dance and poetry, video, and photography. He blends post-colonial African identities through transient and makeshift memorials.
Dj Aroma
Born in
Ghana
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with bachelor's degree
Occupations
disc jockey
Biography
Collins Tetteh Nartey, known professionally as DJ Aroma, is a Ghanaian disc jockey. He is the official DJ for the annual Detty Rave music festival in Ghana. He was listed among the top ten DJs in Africa in 2019. He was awarded the DJ of the Year at the 2021 3Music Awards and the Radio DJ of the Year at the 2020 RTP awards.
Mabel Simpson
Born in
Ghana
Years
1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations
fashion designer
Gifty Oware-Mensah
Born in
Ghana
Years
1986-.. (age 38)
Enrolled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in study of history
Occupations
chief executive officerexecutive directorpolitician
Anne Amuzu
Years
20th Century
Occupations
scientistcomputer scientist
Biography
Anne Amuzu is a Ghanaian computer scientist and the co-founder of the technology company, Nandimobile Limited.
Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare
Born in
Ghana
Years
1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations
politician
Biography
Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician who served as Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts. She was appointed to this position by President John Mahama in 2013 when he formed his first substantive government. She is a member of the National Democratic Congress. She is currently a member for the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana representing the Techiman North Constituency.
Portia Arthur
Born in
Ghana
Years
1990-.. (age 34)
Occupations
writerjournalist
Biography
Portia Arthur is a Ghanaian writer and reporter. She launched her first book titled Against the Odds in July 2018. She also started the Book Per Child Initiative, which aims at inspiring young people to read by supporting them with educational materials and establishing reading clubs in various schools and churches.
Abena Dugan
Biography
Abena Dugan is Ghanaian youth and gender advocate. In 2018, she was elected vice chair in charge of Partnership and Resources of the Commonwealth Youth Council, making her the first female and Ghanaian hold the position. The Commonwealth Youth council is the largest and most diverse youth-led organisation in the world, as such Dugan is now representing young people in 53 Commonwealth countries.
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Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter speaking with former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan moments after Macalester College of St. Paul, Minnesota renamed its Global Institute in Mr. Annan's honor on Monday, May 7 2018. Mr. Annan is an alumnus of the college. Photo: Tom Gitaa/Mshale Nobel laureate and former United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, said on […]
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Nobel laureate and former United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, said on Monday the world is squandering the potential of African children by not giving them access to education.
“Despite significant progress in recent years millions of African children have never set foot in a classroom or owned a book of their own in their lives,” said Annan.
Annan, co-chair of the Books for Africa Law and Democracy Initiative alongside former US vice-president Walter Mondale, was speaking during a reception to mark the 30th anniversary of Books for Africa, the St. Paul non-profit that ships millions of donated school textbooks to the continent.
“Numerous studies have shown that no development tool is more effective than education and literacy,” Annan said. “When people are able to access education, they can break free of the cycle of poverty and contribute to building a fairer and more peaceful society.”
Annan said the ongoing literacy crisis in Africa is a source of great concern, as the children who are not attending school are the future doctors and teachers that the continent will miss.
While commending Books for Africa for the progress it has made in the last 30 years in sending books to address, he nonetheless urged the organization and its supporters to “redouble their efforts.”
“One area of particular importance to Africa and the world is the strengthening of the rule of law,” Annan said, as he made the case about the significance of Books for Africa’s Law and Democracy Initiative, which sends new law books to law schools in Africa. Thomson Reuters provides the Law and Democracy Initiative with new law books and that company’s vice-president for Government Affairs, former Minneapolis mayor Sharon Sayles Belton was on hand to reiterate Thomson Reuters continued support.
Annan said his conviction about the rule of law being the pillar to security has grown stronger since he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation.
“No society can prosper without the rule of law and respect for human rights,” Annan went on to say.
The Jack Mason Law and Democracy Initiative is named after former US federal judge Jack Mason who was also a Books for Africa board member. His wife, Vivian, was present as Annan addressed the 30th anniversary reception. Also, present were former US vice-president Walter Mondale who co-chairs the initiative with Annan. Nane Annan, Kofi Annan’s wife, accompanied him to the celebration.
“Numerous organizations have benefitted from it including Women Lawyers Association of Gambia, Zambia Lawyers for Human Rights and the parliament of Liberia,” said Annan.
One of those inspired by Mr. Annan’s many years of global service is Jote Taddese, president of the Books for Africa board of directors. A native of Ethiopia, Taddese said he was graduating college in the US in 1997 when “I learnt a great African diplomat had been elected UN secretary-general.”
Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship
Earlier in the day, Mr. Annan, was the focus of a historical development at his alma mater, Macalester College when that institution renamed the Institute for Global Citizenship to the Kofi Annan
Institute for Global Citizenship in his honor. The institute faces Grand Avenue and is on the intersection of the busy and historical Grand and Snelling
avenues.
At the dedication, Annan sat next to another historical figure in his own right. Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was born and grew up within walking distance of Macalester and could not hide his joy of having the opportunity to sit next to Mr. Annan and made sure everyone knew it.
“I am honored to just be sitting next to you and I wanted to make sure my staff got a picture of us sitting next to each other,” Mayor Carter said to loud laughter. Carter became St. Paul’s first black mayor when he worn in a convincing fashion last November.
Macalester President Brian Rosenberg called Mr. Annan a role model for everyone. He referred to him as the most “visible and courageous” UN secretary-general of our time that has inspired many.
“It is one of Macalester’s great privilege to claim Kofi Annan as one of our graduates, and Macalester’s great privilege to rename and rededicate the Institute for Global Citizenship, as the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship,” Rosenberg said to loud applause. He and added that, henceforth “I don’t know about everyone but I will just be calling it The Annan Institute.”
Speaking before the unveiling of the institute’s new name, Annan told students not to be afraid to lead and not to hesitate, as “one is never too young to lead.”
Annan was part of the class of 1961 at Macalester College.
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His Excellency Joseph Boakai
Former Vice President, Republic of Liberia
Pro Chancellor and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Crown University Intl. Chartered Inc.
Joseph Nyumah Boakai Sr. (born 30 November 1944) is a Liberian politician who served as Vice President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, serving under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Previously he was Minister of Agriculture from 1983 to 1985.
Personal life
Joseph Boakai was born in the remote village of Worsonga in Foya District, Lofa County, on 30 November 1944. He is married to Kartumu Boakai and they have four children.[2] Boakai is a Baptist and a deacon of the Effort Baptist Church
In the Civic and Self-Help sector, as part of his philanthropic support to humanity, Hon. Boakai supervised and personally financed up to 75% a 7-mile rural village road construction to Warsonga, Liberia. He worked with the Federation of Liberian Youth (FLY) and the Danish Youth to construct a school for 150 students and clinic for a community of 10 villages. He influenced the erection of OIC project in Foya Kama, Liberia, organized and headed fund raising for rural electrification of Foya Kama in Lofa County, Northern Liberia
As a result of his vast knowledge in the social sciences, the Honorable Vice President offered short term consultancy to a number of institutions including serving as Chief Technical Advisor on Agriculture Policy, Ministry of Agriculture He reviewed and evaluated the Liberian 1986 proposed Green Revolution and FAO World Bank 1986 Agricultural sector Review Document and evaluated AMSCO, Amsterdam Funded training program for projects in Uganda in 1994 and Tanzania in 1996.
He is the owner of LUSU Resource Corporation and co-owner of AGROMACHINES Liberia.
Hon. Boakai served as member and chairman of many boards including chairman-Liberia Finance and Trust Corporation, chairman of the board of Star Radio, member of the board of LOIC, member of the board of the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary, founding member of Bethesda Christian Mission, founding organizer-African Methodist Episcopal University, founding organizer of the C.W.A. Methodist University and Ambassador of the Liberia YMCA, President of LUSU Resource Corporation and Ex-President of the Monrovia Rotary Club.
He is President of the Liberian Senate and he presides two days a week over plenary sessions of that body. He performs supervisory functions over a number of institutions and agencies including the Liberia National Lotteries (LOTTO), the Liberia Marketing Association (LMA), the Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE), and the National Commission on Disarmament Demobilization Resettlement and Reintegration (NCDDRR).
Education
Boakai attended primary and high school in Sierra Leone and Liberia before graduating from the College of West Africa, the University of Liberia in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration
Political career
Boakai went on to jobs in both the public and private sector. He worked as a resident manager (1973–1980) and managing director (1980–1982) for the Liberia Produce Marketing Corporation (LPMC) From 1983 to 1985, he served as Minister of Agriculture under President Samuel Doe.[9] While Minister of Agriculture, Boakai chaired the 15 nation West African Rice Development Association. In 1992, he was the managing director of the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC). He later worked as a consultant to the World Bank in Washington and also founded a firm dealing in agricultural equipment and consultancy. He has served as board chairman of the Liberia Wood Management Corporation and of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company. He announced his intention to run for the Liberian presidency which was scheduled for 10 October 2017. He is viewed by many as a safe and uncorrupt candidate.
During the first round of the 2017 presidential and representatives elections where none of the candidates who contested was able to obtain 50% +1 votes to become the country’s next president, president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stated on several occasions that she was supporting her vice president.
After the first round, she openly said that she is not supporting either of the two candidates who made it to the run-off. But she was seen on 21 December 2017 with George Weah at a groundbreaking ceremony for a road that is leading to the home of his rival, the vice president Joseph N. Boakai. Said act was harshly received by some Liberians, mainly members of the ruling Unity Party. They considered the president’s action as campaigning for Weah. After the photos flooded social media, President Sirleaf clarified on the same day: “I have told the AU that I am neither supporting Senator Weah nor Vice President Boakai, although it’s my right to support either of them in the run-off. I never knew the protocol of the program until I reached to the program. When I got there I saw Senator Jewel Howard Taylor and Senator Weah, I couldn’t tell the both senators to leave because they are both sitting senators. It was senator Jewel Howard Taylor that gave the shovel to senator Weah, at which time my head was bent down. So it was difficult for me to identify the person holding the shovel. But however, I regret that the Vice President wasn’t there, this is his road and he was needed to be here.”
When Boakai was asked if he was invited or not, he said that he was never invited by the president for the both of them to carry out the groundbreaking ceremony for the road that leads to his home in Lofa County
When the vice president appeared on the Coasta Show, he said one of the reasons for which the president doesn’t want to support him is his alignment with Wilmot Paye who is the chairman of the party and also Senator Varney G. Sherma
Mr. Boakai, regardless of being defeated by former football legend, George M. Weah, in the run-off of the 2017 presidential and representatives elections he paid an appreciation visit to his county, Lofa.
During his visit, he appreciated his people and urged them to work with the new government. “The purpose of my visit here is to appreciate my people for showing the high level of love and dedication…ensuring that we were successful in the process, because they did what they committed themselves to do by voting in their numbers
The election has ended, he said, and there is a new government that will continue the work from where the Unity Party led government will stop. “I ask that we all rally around this new administration to bring the desired developments that we all want. We should all know that Liberia has won so let us support each other.
His Excellency, UNESCO Laureate, World Acclaimed Distinguished Prof Sir Bashiru Aremu
The Vice Chancellor, Crown University Intl. Chartered Inc.
Post-Doctoral E-Business, Grand PhD, Post Doc., D.Sc., Ph.D., B.Sc., B. Tech., IBD, FIBTMN,FATIICS, MACM, MCSTA, MSTAN, Snr. MIACSIT, FIASR, C.itp ,MCPN ,KOJ, KOGC,KOGHL FICWLS, FCIEMA, MNDKOJC, MNDKOLG, MNDKOM, MNDKOO, MNDKOAS, MNDKOAM, MNDKOAF, MNKOC, MNKOI, MNKOGC,MNKOWL,MNKOE, MNKOTP, MNKOTE, MNKOS,CEMA, FBCS England, Fellow, Marquis Who’s Who in the World, Fellow Who’s Who in Nigeria , LFICWLS, FCIML, Fellow, Outstanding Intellectual of 21st Century, Cambridge, England ,Fellow, Europe Association for International Education, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, USA, World Leader of the Humanities , United Kingdom (WORLD DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AND RESEARCH PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SUPERVISOR OF DOCTORAL.
Life Fellow of World Outstanding Intellectual of 21st Century , Experienced World Top Educator, Intl Administrator, Intl. Author and Editor, World Professional Director, Intl Consultant on Education and Business, World Distinguished Professor, Life Supreme Companion of Chartered World Order of Knights of Justice of Peace (Sir) and Life Highest Fellow of International Chartered World Learned Society, Apex Life Fellow of Africa International Institute for Professional Training and Research Intl Chartered and World Distinguished Mystic Muslim Order.
He has got an offered of been appointed all over the world by following Higher Institutions where he was a principal officer and World Distinguished Professor as stated below: Pro Chancellor, Chartered Da Vinci University ,The Vice Chancellor, Crown University Intl Chartered Inc., and partner campuses world-wide at Africa, Vice President International Affairs (Vice Chairman International Affairs of Board of Trustees) West Coast University at United States of America and partner campuses world-wide , Vice President International Affairs (Vice Chairman International Affairs of Board of Trustees) Sastra Angkor University Kingdom of Cambodia at Asia and partner campuses world-wide ,Deputy Director General for Africa and Research Professor at International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England at Europe, World Grand Chancellor, Chartered World Order of Knights of Justice of Peace,(world-wide) World Grand President, International Chartered World Learned Society, (world-wide) World Grand President, Africa International Institute for Professional Training and Research Intl Chartered and many more that what made the world pronounced him as a World Distinguished Professor by various higher institutions and organizations world-wide.
His Excellency, UNESCO Laureate, World Acclaimed Distinguished Professor, Sir, Bashiru Aremu who hails from Ancient City of Iwo in Osun State, Nigeria, West Africa more than four decades ago is a World Acclaimed Distinguished Teaching and Research Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Post-Doctoral Degree Fellowship Certifications: As an Inquisitor of knowledge, He obtained Triple Post-Doctoral Degrees Fellow, Two from West Coast University, USA after which He became Professor through the researches he carried out on General Examination of Biometric Technology Security System (Grand PhD Thesis), Mathematical Theorem and Formulae as a bedrock of Computer Science (Post-Doctoral Degree Thesis), and the University having received various accreditations and internationally recognized by the UNESCO and confirmed by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Education, Evaluation and Accreditation Department with Reference Number FME/S/174/C.3/LXXXII/161.
Then, from Maha Satra University of Satra Angor Institute, The kingdom of Cambodia, His Research Thesis was on General Examination of E-Business in the Modern World of Information Communication Technology (Post-Doctoral Degree Thesis).
Dual Degrees: He also obtained Dual Doctorate Degrees and Dual Bachelor Degrees in Computer Science and Information Technology with Distinctions as a transferred Student from Adam Smith University of America which was accredited during his studies.
He bagged both Bachelor and Doctorate Degrees in Information Technology at the highest International ranked university by 4ICU, UNESCO and confirmed by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Education, Evaluation and Accreditation Department as Internationally accredited in Costa Rica with Reference Number FME/S/174/C.2/A/111/206/4312 (UNIVERSIDAD EMPRESARIAL DE COSTA RICA “Business University of Costa Rica”) in Central America through the Grant that was sponsored by International Academy for Science and Research, England and Wales to release his outstanding results of both his Bachelor and Doctoral Degree from UNIVERSIDAD EMPRESARIAL DE COSTA RICA in Central America as Top-Up Degrees.
Productive Professor: Being a Supervisor and Co-Supervisor of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Thesis: As a Productive Professor, He has been Supervising and Co-Supervising both Undergraduates and Postgraduates Thesis up to The Post-Doctoral Degree Thesis in which some of them have become Vice Chancellor and Professors today as a resource person both for their Ph.D. and a member of their Professorial Assessment Committee. He has extensive Academic, Research, Administrative and Publication experiences in Africa, America, Europe and Asia.
Author, Editor of Books and International Conferences Attended and so on: He is an Author and Editor of Text Books and Journals, apart from been an International Member of Editorial Board of difference journals world-wide. He has opportunities to be a team member of Authors for researches carried out in Articles of Referred Journals World-Wide that was led by world distinguished scholars around the world which later Published in Grand Edition of Outstanding Intellectual of 21st at Cambridge in England. He has attended several Conferences, Summits, Forum, Congresses and Seminars.
Recipient of International Awards: He have received medals, international certificates and he was published in the Grand 8Th Edition as a Fellow of Outstanding Intellectual of 21st Century by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge in England and was listed as one of the Leading Professionals of the World; listed as a member of 100 Top Educators of the World, nominated for International Order of Merit and Da Vinci Laureate by the International Biographical Centre at Cambridge, England. He is a regular and registered Member of the World Universities Forum and Knowledge Community with Registration Number U140142, Fellow, Marquis Who’s who in the World, Fellow, Europe Association for International Education, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, 2017 U SA, World Leader of the Humanities 2017, United Kingdom
He received the Honor The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders and be included in the next edition of the book. Inclusion in this book is a prestigious honor for the African Diaspora leaders who have accomplished outstanding tasks and who have demonstrated excellent professionalism and character while performing duties related to Africa and the African Diaspora.
The Chivalric Sovereign Order of the Knights of Justice London, United Kingdom has recently approved His nomination as member Chivalric Sovereign Order of the Knights of Justice by approval of its Grand Chancellor which entitled Him to bear ‘Sir’.
Recently, He was awarded Knight Order of Grand Crescent (KOGC) as a sign of Devoted Muslim (Highest Grade) and Knight Order of Grand Heavenly Light (KOGHL) (Highest Grade) as a sign of Devoted prayerful Muslim to bear Sir by the International Grand Council of the Chartered World Order of Knight of Justice of Peace situated in America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
He recently Received Triple Awards in a day : Number One Pan Africa World Distinguished Leadership Hall of Fame 2018,Subtitle World Icon of Humanitarian Services Year 2018 from West Africa Students Union which was founded in London, United Kingdom in 1924, Number Two: Leadership Award of Humanitarian Services by National Association of Polytechnics Students, Nigeria Number Three Youth Leadership Ambassador by International Youth Summits Presented by Mayboroda Tetyana from Sumy State University , Ukraine from Europe.
Various Appointments and Citations in The World Recognized Publications: He was recently appointed as the Vice President of the recognition Board of the World Congress of Arts, Sciences and Communication at World Congress Headquarters, Cambridge, England; he was cited in the Who’s Who in the World; Publication by Famous Marquis’s Who’s Who America’s Biographer since 1899.
He was also cited in the Who’s Who in Nigeria as well and recently appointed by International Chartered World Learned Society as the World Grand President through the World Grand Board of Directors in which He representing this Society in the United Nations Global Compact as a participant in the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative at New York, United States of America.
He received a letter from IBC, Cambridge, England on “IBC’s salute to “Greatness Award” for his internationally recognized greatness and thanking me for making the world in which we live a better place.
UNESCO Laureate: ., He received a golden certificate with golden medal after recommendation by several other institutions that have declared him as a World Acclaimed Distinguished Professor Emeritus on merit, honored and ranked by various higher educational institutions and organizations worldwide and finally ratified by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Centre Central and South America with Reg. Arg. 22/LT-19 and published with ISBN 978-1571-7412-6 as a Most Academy Excellent World Acclaimed Distinguished Professor Emeritus on Merit, Honored and Ranked of Computer Science, Information and Communication Technology as a highest UNESCO Laureate for an outstanding creative and intellectual achievement .
Appointment as a principal officer of various Board of Trustees: He has been appointed as a principal officer all over the world at higher education institutions and held the following positions at various board of trustees: Pro Chancellor, Chartered Intl. Da Vinci University, Vice Chancellor, Crown University Intl Chartered Inc. Vice President for International Affairs (Vice-Chairman International Affairs of Board of Trustees) at West Coast University USA; Vice President International Affairs (Vice-Chairman International Affairs of Board of Trustees) Sastra Angkor University Kingdom of Cambodia; Deputy Director-General for Africa and Research Professor at International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, UK. I also held positions as a World Grand Chancellor at the Chartered World Order of the Knights of Justice of Peace; The World Grand President, International Chartered World Learned Society, World Grand President at Africa International Institute for Professional Training and Research, World Grand President, The Chartered World Institute of Encyclopedia of Books Inc., World Distinguished Research Professor and Fellow Editorial International Advisory Board at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Member Corporate Advisory Board/Visiting Professor at, Bharath University India, India, The Founder, Prof Emeritus (On merit )Sir Bashiru Aremu Intl. Foundation Inc, Cum Vice President of Board , The International Centre for Eye Research and Education, Argentina in South America.
Working Experiences in Various Universities and Research Institutions in the World:
He has privileges to work across four world continents’ Institute and educational establishments.
In Africa; he have been appointed as a World Distinguished Teaching and Research Professor and external Supervisor of doctoral class at Crown University College, Accra, Ghana in West Africa where He received an offers as the Vice Chancellor. More so, He was appointed as a Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at Afriford University of Science, Management, Arts, and Technology (AUSMAT) Akpakpa-Habitat CDPA Caarrefour, Cotonou Est Benin Republic. Besides, In Nigeria, He got appointment as a Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at Novena University, Amai, Ogume, Delta State. Similar offer was given at Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State in Nigeria. Also he offered the same post of Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Kano State, Nigeria. Where his profile was used to obtain full accreditation in the Department of Computer Science.
In Europe: He was appointed as the Deputy Director General for Africa and Research Professor of International Biographical Centre which located at King’s College of University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England in Great Britain till date. He got offer as faculty Professor Affiliate at Oxbridge University of Kilmurry and Cambridge Institute of Technology, UK (https://oxbridgedegrees.wixsite.com/kilmurry) with many more offers.
In Asia: He was the Vice President International Affairs at Sastra Angkor University and Sastra Angkor Institute, Kingdom of Cambodia. Also, He was World Distinguished Teaching and Research Professor at National Institute for Education and Research, New Delhi in India with other complementary offers.
Also Vice President, International Affairs, International Institute of Management and Technology, Management Board, Kingdom of Cambodia
In America: He received offers as the Vice President International Affairs and Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at West Coast University, USA with other appointments.
Professional Bodies/Organizations: He was an active member of many professional bodies which are world renowned. Viz:
He is a member of Chartered Information Technology Practitioner by Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria and Fellow of Institute of Business Technology Management of Nigeria As a professional body to promote skill Acquisition in. It is the first of its kind in Nigeria and Africa. It is an autonomous body, representing the interest of those wishing to take career in this very lucrative field thereby registering and conduction quality examination in diverse areas for professional membership,. He is a Fellow of British Computer Society, Chartered Institute of I.T., England with Ref Number 990496979.
Other bodies are Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria with Registration Number 004952/2016, a Fellow of Business Management Association in the UK, Life Fellow International Chartered World Learned Society World-Wide, Knowledge Community Member, World Universities Forum with Reference Number U14R0142 and many more .
He is a member of International Board of Directors of International Biographical Centre at King’s College of University of Cambridge, St Thomas Place, ELY CB7 4GG, Cambridge, England in Great Britain in which he occupying the position of Deputy Director General for International Biographical Centre for Africa. He would be delighted to use his vast experiences and exposures through his international academic affiliates to project the University or organization image to the global academic stakeholders and research enthusiasts.
Being a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge as well ,he would love to coordinate and supervise commercially viable research works that can attract grants and funding from government, NGO;’s and global research entities.
It is salient also to notify you that a Research Professor of note at International Biographical Centre always enjoys privileges and opportunities reserved strictly for the World Distinguished Scholars in similar cadre. He has been using these opportunities to publish his research works to the global audience granted to him through data archives of this world renowned organization via his International consultancy offices at Africa Information Technology Consultancy Regd.
Without mincing words, he believe that with his exposures both locally and internationally, his presence at any of Universities or Organizations would be highly rewarding by helping the school or organization to scale new heights academically and research wise which will ultimately attest to the feats he has recorded at Crown University College, Ghana and Partner Campuses World-wide as a Vice Chancellor and full-time World Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology and Supervisor of Doctoral Class.
His Excellency World Distinguished Prof Sir Bashiru Aremu can recommend you to different International Professional Organizations to add another feathers to your cap such as International Chartered World Learned Society and other awards for more recognition if you are interested please send your CV to info@profaremubashiru.org
Please click the following link to view those have been awarded Through His Excellency World Distinguished Prof sir Bashiru Aremu at https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/prof-sir-bashiru-aremu-grand-p-hd-post-doc-d-sc-ph-d-0a33b816
IN THE WORLD AT LARGE WHERE HE RENDER HIS SERVICE TO THE WORLD THROUGH WORLD WIDE ORGANIZATION
The World Grand President of International Chartered World Learned Society The World Grand President, Africa International Institute for Professional Training and Research Intl’ Chartered,
The World Grand Chancellor, the Chartered World Order of the Knights of Justice of Peace, Vice President International Affairs, and Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at West Coast University, Panama, Belize, State of Delaware, United States of America(www.westcoastuniversityintl.education) ,Intl Chartered and Bangladesh Campus, and many more.
This His personal website: www.profaremubashiru.org, and Phone Number +2348065907145
His Excellency UNESCO Laureate, World Acclaimed Distinguished Prof sir Bashiru Aremu looking forward to hear from anyone that is interested to become International Distinguished Fellow of various International Organizations Worldwide and to work together for mutual benefits Academically, Financially and Socially.
Professor Md. Zahir Uddin Arif, member Board of Trustees and Crown University Vice Chancellor Representative in Bangladesh
Biography of Professor Md. Zahir Uddin Arif
—–Professor Md. Zahir Uddin Arif is an academician, researcher, thesis supervisor & examiner, marketing & brand adviser, consultant, trainer and public speaker in various national and international organizations and an editor & reviewer of different national & international journals and edited books. He is experienced in teaching and supervising the students and research fellows of the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs (BBA, MBA, EMBA, M.Phil & Ph.D) in the fields of Business, Marketing Management and Economics for the last two decades. His areas of research and consultancy interest are Marketing (Consumer Rights, CSR, CnSR, Brand Management, Retail Marketing, International Marketing, Health Care Marketing, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Relationship Marketing), HRM, Cross-cultural issues, Gender Behavior to Consumption, Development issues and inter-disciplinary and cross-sectional fields of study. His several research papers have been published in various peer reviewed/refereed journals and conference proceedings of home and abroad. He is a Research Fellow of International Institute of Advanced Research in Trade & Commerce (IIARTC), Meerut, U.P., India. He is a Member of Research Committees on Marketing Group, Human Resource Management Group, Cross-Cultural Management Group, EuroMed Business Research Institute (EMRBI), European and Mediterranean Region. He is the Founding President and Brand Consultant of Bangladesh Renaissance Foundation (BRF), a non-profitable social development & research organization for the globe people.
—–Professor Arif achieved remarkable ‘BANGLADESH EDUCATION LEADERSHIP AWARD 2017’ in the category of ‘BEST PROFESSOR IN MARKETING MANAGEMENT’ in the South Asian Partnership Summit (SAPS) and Business Excellence Awards 2017 on 29 October, 2017, organized by World HRD Congress, World Education Congress, CMO Asia and THOUGHT LEADERS with the Asian Confederation of Business. As a part of International Awards 2017, Bangladesh Leadership Awards 2017 were presented at the Hotel Le Méridien Dhaka by the Asian Confederation of Business with CMO Asia as its strategic partner and Stars of the Industry Group as a research partner to recognize institutions and individuals who believe, Excellence is infinite and can lead to shaping the destinies of the future of the world. The awards of the highest stature are presented to Individuals and Institutions who have surpassed several levels of its excellence and set an example of being a Role Model and Exemplary Leadership. International Jury board was formed with the association of academics, researchers and business leaders. Nominated people and organizations from South Asian countries- Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan got the nomination for the prestigious leadership awards. The awards were given mainly in the categories of Best Professor, Best Employer Brand, Best HR Professional, Best IT Company, Best Marketing & Brand Professional, Best CSR Leader, Best Women Leader, Best NGO Leader and Best Academic Institution.
—–Professor Arif completed his graduation with Honors and Post-graduation in Marketing from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was awarded M.Phil degree in Economics (thesis in the area of Marketing specially Consumer Behavior entitled ‘Factors Influencing the Consumers’ Buying Decision Process for Motor Cars: A Study in Dhaka City’ under the supervision of Renowned Economist Professor Mustafa Kamal Mujeri, Executive Director, Institute of Inclusive Finance & Development (InM), Former Director General of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh and Former Professor of Economics, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh) with distinction achieving the 1st position among the research students of twelve disciplines of the 3rd batch from the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (I.H.S.), one of the advanced research institutes of the National University of Bangladesh. However, he received Postgraduate Training on Advanced Research from the Faculty of Business, Government & Law, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia as World Bank Fellow.
—–Professor Arif teaches the graduate and postgraduate level students and conducts & supervises academic & professional research project/thesis in the Department of Marketing of the Jagannath University (www.jnu.ac.bd), Dhaka, a reputed full pledged government financed public university of Bangladesh. He performed his administrative duties as Chairman of the Department, and as the Program Director of the MBA (Evening) Program of the Department of Marketing of Jagannath University. He was a Member of Academic Council, Board of Advanced Studies and Faculty Executive Committee of Jagannath University. Prior to this position, he served consecutively as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and also as Assistant Proctor of the same University. Formerly he conducted courses of M.Phil Program as a Faculty Member & Head of Marketing Department (M.Phil & Ph.D Program), at National University, Gazipur, Bangladesh, graduate & postgraduate level courses as an Assistant Professor of Department of Business Administration at Bangladesh University and as a Lecturer in Marketing at Dhaka Commerce College and Abu Dharr Ghifari College, Dhaka, Bangladesh respectively.
—–Professor Arif has also teaching and professional experiences as ‘Visiting Faculty’ in various universities and institutes of home and abroad, such as Burdwan University, India, East West University, Stamford University Bangladesh, ASA University Bangladesh, City University, Southeast University, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB), Institute of Bankers Bangladesh (IBB), Bangladesh Institute of Management (BIM), Govt. Titumir College, Mirpur College, Daffodil Institute of Information Technology (DIIT) etc. In BIM, as a resource person, he has conducted the courses- International Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Sales Management in its Post-graduate Diploma Program in Marketing Management. He has also corporate experience as researcher and trainer in the research and training division of Micro Industries, Development, and Services (MIDAS), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
—–Professor Arif supervises and examines research reports, dissertations & thesis of MBA/MS/M.Phil/Ph.D programs of different universities of home and abroad. He works as a Resource Person in faculty development programs and curriculum & syllabus development of Marketing Discipline of BBA, MBA, EMBA and M.Phil courses at different universities.
—–Professor Arif also served as Head of Self Assessment Committee (SAC) of Department of Marketing, Jagannath University under Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), HEQEP, University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh, funded by The World Bank. He also contributed as Deputy Sub-Project Manager of TSIDP Sub-Project Management Team (SPMT), Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) of University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh, funded by The World Bank. As a certified Trainer of WTO, he contributed earlier as a Consulting Member and Resource Person on TBT (Technical Barriers to International Trade) issues in favor of International Trade Centre, WTO, Geneva, Switzerland.
—–Professor Arif participated and presented papers in various national and international seminars and conferences including Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC) in the University of New South Wales, Australia; International Congress of Social Philosophy (ICSP), Annual Conference of EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB), International Society of International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), Bi-annual Conference of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) and Annual Banking Conference of Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM). He worked as a Track Chair of Annual Conferences of EuroMed Academy of Business.
—-Professor Arif is experienced in the editing of different journals & books and reviewing research articles of various peer-reviewed/referred international journals and book chapters of edited books published by IGI Global. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of ANVESHAK-International Journal of Management (AIJM) [ISSN: 2278-8913 (Print)], ISSN: 2350-0794 (Online)], Indian Journal of Commerce and Management Studies [ISSN: 2249-0310 (Print)], ISSN: 2229-5674 (Online)], Marketing Review’ [ISSN: 2222-9159], and IJRAMST [ISSN: 2455-7331]. He is an editorial reviewer of European Journal of Management Studies (EJMS) [ISSN: 2183-4172] of ISEG–Lisbon School of Economics and Management , University of Lisbon, International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing (IJEMR) [Scopus Indexed, InderScience], International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (IJEST) (Springer, https://www.springer.com/journal/13762), ‘African Journal of Business Management (AJBM)’ [ISSN: 1993-8233] and International Journal of Social Science & Humanity (IJSSH) [ISSN: 2010-3646] http://www.ijssh.org/. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of International Journal of Trade & Commerce-IIARTC, [ISSN: 2277-5811 (Print)], ISSN: 2278-9065 (Online)] and International Journal of Logistics & Supply Chain Management Perspectives [ISSN: 2279-0896 (Print)], ISSN: 2279-090X (Online)] (http://pezzottaitejournals.net). He also served as a Member of the Editorial Board of Jagannath University Journal of Business Studies (https://jnu.ac.bd/journal/portal/archives/business.jsp).
—–Professor Arif worked as ‘Senior Vice-President, Academic Accreditation Committee (AAC)’ and ‘Associate Vice President, Conferences & Awards Committee’ at The International Institute of Marketing Professionals (IIMP®), Brampton, Ontario, Canada from August 2012 to June 2013. Prior to this position, he had been actively functioning his team leadership as ‘Associate Vice-President, Academic Accreditation Committee (AAC)’ of the same institute. He also played an active role as a Member of the Executive Management Team of the IIMP® during his tenure.
—–Professor Arif is one of the initiators of the peace movement in Bangladesh celebrating ‘Bangladesh Peace Festival’ on the occasion of the UN International Day of Peace on September 21 every year organized by Bangladesh Renaissance Foundation with the collaboration of Bangladesh Peace Council and Jagannath University. His concept paper on ‘Bangladesh Peace Festival: A New Dimension in the Way of Peace Marketing’ was published in “Peace” based on the guideline given to him in the memorandum about peace marketing by the world renowned Marketing Scholar, Professor Philip Kotler of Northwestern University in 2015. He is contributing in the area of peace marketing and public speaking on this issue after getting the inspiration from Professor Philip Kotler.
—–Professor Arif is committed to providing quality marketing services through his team leadership focusing ‘Always Consumer First’. As a recognition of his relentless efforts, recently he has been nominated and selected as the Member of the Executive Committee for the nationwide celebration of the first-ever ‘Bangladesh Marketing Day 2018’ organized by The Marketing Alumni Association (MAA) of University of Dhaka in association with Marketing Departments of Public & Private Universities and Marketing & Brand Practitioners of Bangladesh that will be celebrated on 1st July, 2018 in all marketing departments of educational institutes and corporate offices and on 2nd July, 2018 in TSC, University of Dhaka premises with students, teachers, corporate and business people including a day-long program with seminars, speeches, panel discussions from renowned persons, debate of marketing clubs of universities, cultural programs etc.
—–Professor Arif has been serving the teachers community as the Treasurer (elected) of Jagannath University Teachers Association (JnUTA)-2020 for the second time with his earlier community service as the Treasurer (elected) of JnUTA-2017 and as the Chief Election Commissioner of the Executive Committee Election of JnUTA-2018.
—–Professor Arif is a Member of different national and international research, social and humanity organizations including EuroMed Business Research Institute (EMRBI, www.emrbi.org), International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), USA; South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Kathmandu, Nepal; Amnesty International; Associate Member of Asiatic Society Bangladesh, Life Member of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA), Bangladesh Itihash Parishad (Bangladesh History Council), and Marketing Alumni Association (MAA), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a Life Registered Graduate of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and formerly he was the President of Rotaract Club of Dhaka Commerce College, Rotary International District-3280, Bangladesh. However, He has been contributing to many academic, social and cultural organizations for the last two decades.
—–To know further about Professor Md. Zahir Uddin Arif, please visit the following links:
—–Thesis Supervisor & Examiner. Proposal for Research Collaboration & Joint Publication on Marketing, Business and Development Issues: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Call-for-Admission-into-PhD-MPhil-Program-in-Marketing-or-Relevant-Fields-of-Study
—–Profile with Biography & CV:
—–@Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316276407_CV_Professor_Md_Zahir_Uddin_Arif,
—–@LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-md-zahir-uddin-arif-95b69413/,
—–@Jagannath University http://jnu.ac.bd/profile/portal/web/475,
—–@EMRBI: https://emrbi.org/consultant-md-zahir-uddin-arif/,
—–@Yolasite: http://www.zahiruddinarif.yolasite.com/,
—–@Facebook Profile: https://web.facebook.com/center1234,
—–@Facebook Page: https://web.facebook.com/Arif-1859844667423524/,
—–@Campus Times: http://campustimes.press/article/english-news/8680/Zahir-Uddin-Achieved-South-Asian-Partnership-Summit-and-Business-Excellence-Awards-2017
—–Research Publications:
—–@ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md_Zahir_Uddin_Arif3/research,
—–@Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QlgRujYAAAAJ&hl=en,
—–@Academia Edu: https://independent.academia.edu/ArifMZU,
—–@Yolasite: http://www.zahiruddinarif.yolasite.com/research-articles.php
—–Editor, Peer-Reviewed/Refereed International Journals:
—–International Journal of Trade & Commerce-IIARTC: https://www.sgsrjournals.co.in/ijtc-iiartc.php?JId=1,
—–Anveshak-International Journal of Management: http://iimpanveshak.net/index.php/anveshak/index,
—–Indian Journal of Commerce and Management Studies: http://www.scholarshub.net/index.php/ijcms/pages/view/eb,
—–IJRAMST: http://zenonpub.com/index.php/aboutus, http://zenonpub.com/index.php/editorial-board
—–E-mail Id: mjarif2004@yahoo.com, mjarif2006@gmail.com
Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor
A member Board of Trustees and Director Crown University affiliated Campus, Republic of Benin
Born on the 29th of May 1966 at Sapele in the present-day Delta State, Nigeria hails from Ute Ogbeje. Dr. Sir Simon Nwafor attended Igwebuike Primary School, Ute Ogbeje, Delta State, Nigeria between 1973 and 1979. However, as a young vibrant boy who, out of the advice and tutelage of his late father, Apostle Nwafor Omeife proceeded to Owerre Olubor Secondary School from 1979 to 1984 where he sat for his West African School Certificate Examinations and Stage 11 (O//L) Certificate of Institute of Commerce of London both in 1984.
In his quest for professionalism, he was admitted for a two-year diploma course in marketing management at the Institute of Professional Management, Agbor, Nigeria in 1984 and graduated in 1986. He also enrolled for a professional course in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria, and later the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom and graduated in 1990.
He also attended Opencast Polytechnic, Auchi; an affiliate of Ambrose Alli University, Edo State and obtained his Higher National Diploma in marketing with “Distinction” in 1990. The young Simon who is never satisfied with education and knowledge acquisition later continued his academic pursuit with the Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria for his Postgraduate Diploma programme in Marketing and Commercial Administration and graduated in 1993 and 2001 respectively.
Dr. Sir Simon Nwafor later attended the Africa International Institute for Professional Training and Research, USA for a Postgraduate Diploma course in Human Resource Management, and came out in a flying colour in 2012. This development was borne out of his professional calling; he has identified himself as a trainee/educator, human resource personnel/consultant, thus the quest to get acquainted with the principles of human resource management. And in 2013, he was briefly at Adam Smith University, USA, but later transferred to West Coast University, Panama, USA for his Master of Science (M.Sc) degree in Human Resource Management where he graduated in 2014.
Not satisfy with his academic pursuit, and in his humbled nature; trying to actualise his innate desire to get to the peak in academics in 2015, went to City University, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia for a Doctorate degree programme in Human Resource Management, and graduated in 2018, with a dissertation on the “Influence of Leadership on Organisational Efficiency”. He also has a Bachelor of Education (B’Ed) degree; specialising in Educational Management from CLU. Also, he got his Bachelor of Science (B. Sc, Hons) degree in Human Resource Management from ISM University, Adonai, Cotonou in the Republic of Benin (2019).
However, attaining success in education and life got Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor to crossed so many turbulent waters in a quest to being educated; he has sacrificed leisure, pleasures, but through friends; mostly academics got to where he is today. He believes strongly in Earl Nightingale assertion that “Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. And, total success therefore, is the continuing involvement in the pursuit of a worthy ideal, which is being realised for the benefits of others rather than at their expense”. This remark by Earl Nightingale keep encouraging Dr. Sir, Simon to press forwards towards his goals in life.
Work experiences
Dr. Simon Nwafor’s work experiences spanned through the media, building, office equipment, consultancy and education. He worked as an Advert. Executive at Tonyphilus (Nig.) Limited; an Advertising Agency, Lagos between 1991 to 1992. He later moved to Evan Folard Limited (Management Consultancy firm) in 1992 as a marketing Executive. He was at Evan Folard Limited till 1993, when he left to join the employment of Atis Aluminum (Nig.) Limited, Lagos as their Marketing Manager. Between 1994 to 1995, he partnered with a friend under a company Data Concept Limited, Lagos which was involved in marketing, selling and distributing of computers and other office equipment.
His entrance into the educational sector came naturally. He was one of the pioneered lecturers at Wolex Polytechnic, Lagos in 1987 where he lectured marketing research, marketing communication, and marketing management as an “Adjunct lecturer”. He later joined the service of the Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria in 1998 as a lecturer. His performances at the Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria prompted the late Registrar and founder, Chief Dr. O. Jonas to transfer him to the University of Port Harcourt, Lagos campus, which at the time was being coordinated by the Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria as Course Coordinator and, at the same time supervises the affairs of other campuses of the institution in Ibadan, Lagos, Warri, and Ilorin respectively.
In 2001, Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor left the service of the Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria to start up fully with his training and development firm – Centre for Career Management, incorporated in August, 1999 as the Principal Consultant. Between 2001 to 2007, he coordinated the academic programmes of The University of London External Programmes, Preston University, Cheyenne, USA, and The Polytechnic, Ibadan in Lagos, Nigeria.
Between 2009 and 2013, he was an Adjunct lecturer in the faculty of management sciences, University of Education, Weniba-Ghana, Nigeria campus. Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor came to the Republic of Benin in 2014 to join the faculty of Ecole Superieure De Management (ESM University), Porto Novo as a Lecturer but later promoted to the position of Head, Department of Human Resource Management in 2016. He was also an Adjunct lecturer at the Regional Institute of Industrial Engineering, Biotechnologies and Applied Sciences (IRGIB-AFRICA UNIVERSITY), Cotonou till 2018. In 2014, he joined the faculty of Ecole de Techniciens Superieur Du Benin (Ecotes University), Cotonou as a Senior Lecturer and presently occupying the position of the Dean, faculty of Administration and Management Sciences.
To add to his academic profile, Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor is a member of the following professional bodies to his credit, viz;
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Educational Management and Administration, USA
iii. Fellow, International Chartered World Learned Society, USA
Member, Chartered World Order of the Knights of Justice of Peace, USA
Member, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria
Associate, Institute of Management Consultant, Nigeria.
Academic Awards
Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor has received the following awards to his credit today;
i). 2020, Certificate of Achievement as “Notable and Top Educator of the 21st Century” in the field of Human Resource Management, International Chartered World Learned Society, USA.
ii). 2020, Certificate of Achievement as “Most Notable & Distinguished Knights Order of Africa of the 21st Century” by the Chartered World Order of the Knights of Justice of Peace, USA.
iii). 2019, Registrar’s Award of Excellence, Ecole De Techniciens Superieure Du Benin, Republic of Benin.
iv). 2018, Best Lecturer of the Year Award, Ecole De Techniciens Superieure Du Benin, Republic of Benin.
v). 2015, Best lecturer of the year’s Award, Ecole Superieure De Management, Cotonou, Republic of Benin.
vi). 2015, Doctorate (PhD, Hons) Degree in Communication Studies, Institut Superieur De Communication Et De Gestion, Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Academic appointments
Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor also has received various academic appointments aimed at serving humanity;
i). 1994 – 2015, Examiner/Course Writer, Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria.
ii). 2000 – 2012, Council member, Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria
iii) 2015, Country Representative, Chartered Institute of Educational Management and Administration.
iv). 2016, National Secretary, National Reconstruction Party, Nigeria.
v). 2019, Director, International Students Affairs, West Coast University, USA, Benin centre
vi). 2019, Registrar, Africa Regional Office, Crown University Int. Chartered Inc, USA, Benin centre
vii). 2019, Country Representative, International Chartered World Learned Society, USA, Benin Republic
viii). 2019, Country Representative, Chartered World Order of the Knights of Justice of Peace, Benin Republic.
Dr. Sir, Simon Nwafor is a professional speaker: conferences, workshops, and seminars. He also co-authored/published ‘The Enemies & Friends of Niger-Delta’ (Vol.1), Principles and Practice of Marketing, and has published many scholarly articles in Journals and Magazines, including the CASTILA (A scholarly publication of the University of Ibadan), Commerce International, and International Academic Journal of Development Research, Cambodia
Dr. Sir, Simon E. Nwafor is a seasoned marketing and human resource management practitioner, who specialise in the strategy of marketing, sales organisation, human resource planning, advising, HR training, sales management, lecturing, and consulting. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Administration and Management Sciences, Ecotes University, Cotonou, Benin, and he is married with children.
Member Board of Trustees of Crown University Intl. Chartered Inc
Former Minister of Culture at the Ministry Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism of Republic of Liberia, Madam Louise Warmenwoah M. Siaway became a Member Board of Trustees of Crown University Intl. Chartered Inc.
Police Academy Road Paynesville, Liberia
The Honorable Louise Warmenwoah McMillian Siaway
Ambassador Visa For Music Liberia, promote music, cultural, festival and professional market for African and Middle-Eastern music’s and works for the restructuring of the music sector in order to offer a improved visibility to artists in these regions and create an environment conducive to the creativity of the cultural and artistic sector.
Appointed March 20, 2020 to the Liberia Marketing Association Board of Director and administrator for the board of directors.
Appointed May 30, 2020 to the Board of Trustee at the PYJ Polytechnic University as a member of the board of Trustee
Former Minister of Culture at the Ministry Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism
Sehwah Liberia Incorporated, A founder and CEO of Sehwah Liberia Incorporated, a non-for-profit organization that promotes sustainable development, cultural heritage initiative and advocacy for women and children.
Sehwah Liberia International group with its operating base in Liberia and Atlanta, Georgia USA promote sustainable development, trade and investment opportunity in Liberia and International.
Worked for Liberia Marketing Association as a consultant to negotiate business opportunity in the areas of import and export for the Liberian consumers and programs such as Waste Management, Storage and preservation of farm produce for marketing- Preservation of farm produce is one of the greatest problems facing farmers in Liberia. This is so because of the nature of farm to market produce (livestock or crops) which is their high perish ability. They are highly perishable because of their high moisture content which in turn promotes the activities of micro organisms which bring about spoilage.
African Union Program
Focal Person in Liberia for the National Structure for African Union,Academy of African Languages (ACALAN) program for Liberia
Liberia Marketing Association (LMA) appointed Louise W. McMillian Siaway as a consultant to negotiate on behalf of LMA. Created Banking system on site at all LMA facilities which had been an effective way to reduce poverty and improve social welfare by encouraging LMA members and most vulnerable marketers to participate in financial freedom.
It establishes environmentally sound business principles in order to enhance income generation and entrepreneurship development and financial security.
Implementation of this program had been an integral part of the LMA’s vision of inclusive growth as a long term strategy that will contribute directly to the LMA’s core agenda.
In addition, this created an innovative instrument for poverty reduction and aims at building capacity of potential LMA member and community capacity building.
Preparing Liberia for the first public library project
The mission of the National Public Library of Liberia is far reaching and deeply motivated. As a first repository for the Republic’s rich history, it will be a beacon of knowledge, unity and inspiration for all.
Co-Chair on UNESCO Indigeous Language policy for Africa. Steering Committee for the organization of the 2019 International Year of the Indigeous languages. The Strategic policy Documents of the 2019 International year of the Indigeous. Consolidated report on the implementation by the member States of the 2003 recommendation concerning the promotion and use of Multilingualism and Universal access to Cyberspace.
Country Director
Women Let’s Talk Louder Organization head office in Paris.
Home for Gender Dirersity, inclusion and empowerment. Grow Together inspire change for women by women. Global organization to help women reach their full potential.
Whether in government, or the private sector, Louise W. McMillian Siaway is a strong advocate for education, cultural heritage, women and children and empowering artists and ensure the development and promotion of sustainable skills, integration and respect for values, mutual understanding, peace and unity, social justice, and innovative capacity-building solutions for communities. She is passionate about protecting, preserving and safeguarding Liberia’s cultural heritage.
Most recently, Mrs. McMillian Siaway was a 2017 general election candidate for the Liberian House of Representatives, Chair of female representative’s candidates for the Liberia 2017 general election, and worked with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) for Liberian Elections and Political Transitions program.
In 2012, she was appointed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the Minister of Culture in the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism. She held that position until 2017.
Mrs. McMillian Siaway organized the African Cultural Renaissance Campaign in Liberia to popularize the African Union Charter for better understanding of this continental tool and promotion of National Consultation on deteriorating Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for Strengthening Capacities to Safeguard ICH for Sustainable Development in Liberia.
Mrs. McMillian Siaway prepared and submitted the documentations for Ratification of Seven UNESCO Conventions in the fields of culture and heritage:
Tangible and Intangible heritage, Preventing the illicit import and export of cultural property, Diversity of cultural Expressions, World Heritage and Copyright of UNESCO Culture Conventions documentation were prepared and submitted to the President for onward submission to the Senate for ratification.
She prepared The Liberia “World Heritage initiative, prepared Liberia’s tentative list of Cultural, Mixed and Natural sites as the touristic sites to be considered for placement on the World Heritage list.
Mrs. McMillian Siaway is well-known in her community in Liberia and abroad as a member and advocate for various national and International organizations including the Sixth Region Diaspora caucus (SRDC), Nimba Sisters and Nimba Women United for Peace and Reconciliation, African Immigrant Caucus of USA,ECOWAS Women Liberia, The Liberia Concern Women Development Association, Nmotegue Association Incorporated (NOAI), Emma Smith Foundation, and the Buu-Yao Development Association, Global Hope Home a 501(C ) non for profile organization in Atlanta, Georgia, United Nimba Citizens Council of America, The Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA), Atlanta Business women Association, Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce, Barrow County Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Chamber of commerce and National Mortgage Association
She is especially proud of her work as Minister of Culture with The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Liberia to empower youth with the grand finale of its unique and very popular talent show, “A Star is Born”,
“You Are A Star, Cultural Union of Liberia and Musician Union of Liberia
The Beijing International Chinese College, School of International Studies on Culture and Technical Development recognized Mrs. McMillian Siaway with an Achievement Award for inspiring lives of leadership and purpose.
Mrs. McMillian Siaway lived in Atlanta, Georgia United States America where she worked in the private sector for many years. She served as Branch Manager for the Just Mortgage Bank Inc., Founder and CEO of Global One Solutions Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to her career in mortgage banking, Mrs. McMillian Siaway was sales coordinator for international markets at Brighton-Best Corporation, in Atlanta for fifteen years.
During her Banking career, Mrs. McMillian Siaway was recognized with numerous honors, including the prestigious Atlanta Women in Business Award and The Federal Housing Administration is a United States government agency for excellence in taking women from rental to property ownership. She also received the Achievement Award in Business from Barrow County Chamber of Commerce, and the business of the year award from the Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Distinguished award The World Grand Registrar International Chartered World Learned Society “Notable and Top Senior Advocate of Masses of the 21st Century (Golden Award) June 2019 in Nigeria for Africa
Mrs. McMillian Siaway, has a B.A. in Psychology from the Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia and has received executive education certificates from Beijing International Chinese College, School of International Studies on Culture and Technical Development and the University of Georgia for Leadership Development. She is also a licensed mortgage broker in the U.S. state of Georgia and Investment Banking
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Visa For Music Festivals- professional market for African and Middle-Eastern music’s works for the restructuring of the music sector in order to offer a improved visibility to artists in these regions and an environment conducive to the creativity of the cultural and artistic sector November 19-25 2019
UNESCO Madrid, Spain November 26-29 2019
1st Workforce Resource Fair for the African Community in Maryland
Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus(SRDC) 12th Annual International Summit– Charleston, South Carolina USA October 25-28 2019
African Union/ African World Heritage Rome, Italy October 2019 Cultural heritage protection
UNESCO Conference in Florence, Italy October 2019
UNESCO – Culture of Peace Angola September
International Pan –African Conference Nigeria June 2019
Theme: The Challenges of Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa
May 2019 Benin Workshop on Cultural Sector
The Operational and Planning Workshop for the Establishment of the Amharic, Arabic and Tamazight Vehicular Cross-Borders Language Commissions which was held from 29 to 31 August 2019 in Addis Ababa, Federal Republic of Ethiopia.
The Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives (GOCI) 1st Workforce Resource Fair for the African Community in Maryland Governor’s Commission on African Affairs, Workforce Development and Education
AWIU Career Opportunities for International Relations and Impact
The Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives (GOCI)The 3rd Maryland Business Forum:
Prosper Africa & Maryland.
A dialogue on strategies to leverage U.S. government trade and investment support
Services, to connect Maryland’s goods and services with buyers, suppliers, and investment opportunities in Africa.
Prosper Africa Agencies include
*U.S. Department of Commerce
* U.S. International Trade Administration
* U.S. Small Business Administration
*U.S. Agency for International Development
*U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
*U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
2019 African Union Conference on African Languages
UNESCO The Year of Indigenous in Addis Ababa
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) at the United Nations Headquarter March 11-222019 New York
Commission on the Status of Women; CSW63 (2019) … Addressing key gender data challenges through partnering with UN Women’s “Making Every Woman and Girl Count
African union – African Academy for Languages (ACALAN) Bamako, Mali May 2018
African Academy for Languages (ACALAN) Lome, Togo September 2018
African Union Commission General Conference 2018 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February, 2018
African Academy of Languages Abidjan, Ivory Coast October 2018
UNESCO General Conference 2017 Paris, France
EU Illicit Trafficking of Culture objects 2016 Morocco
Culture Exchange in China 2014
7th Ministers Conference of CODEPA, on the development of culture in West African countries. Niamey, Niger 2014
Culture Exchange in Egypt Drum Dialogue for Peace
Writers/ Books Exhibitions Casablanca, Morocco by ECOWAS
UNESSCO General Conference 2017 Paris, France
UNESCO Culture of Peace 2016 Paris
UNESCO General Conference 2015, Paris, France
UNESCO The Sustainable Development Goals China 2015
UNESCO World Heritage Forum 2015 Paris, France
UNESCO General Conference 2013- Paris
UNESCO Forum on Cultural Diversity 2013- Paris
UNESCO Culture of Peace 2013 March Angola
EU Forum on Museum and Preservation
UNESCO Saudi Arabia Cultural Exchange
UNESCO Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Cultural Exchange
Doha, Qatar UNESCO
African Union – African Culture Renaissance cultural development, promotion of creative and cultural industries 2014
The Republic of Turkey Cultural Exchange
Florence, Italy UNESCO on culture preservation
ECOWAS cultural exchange
Mano River – strengthening economic development agendas of affected States; and ensuring restoration of basic missing culture
Dakar, Senegal UNESCO conference on the Fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property with both cultural manager and Security (INTERPOL) 2012
Expo Africa 1975 to 2012 Atlanta, Georgia USA annual showcase of Products made in Africa at a trade shows
PROFESSOR DR. VISHWA NATH MAURYA
Visiting/Distinguished Professor and Member of Board of Trustees/Directors,
Ex Executive Dean and Director
Faculty of Science and Technology, Academics and Research Development
Crown University International Inc. USA, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Distinguished Professor, Mathematician, Statistician, Management Scientist and Data Analyst
M.Sc. (RMLAU), MBA (NU, USA), M. Tech. (OR & Data Sc), Ph.D. (RMLAU), Triple D.Sc. (CUICI/WCIU, USA), D.Litt., D.Sc. (H.C)
PGDCP, MRGP, MISCA, MIAPQR, MSPS, FORSI, FISTE (India), FIACSIT (Singapore), FICWLS (USA)
provc@wcuglobaledu.com, prof_vnmaurya@yahoo.in, https://wcuglobaledu.com, https://profvnmaurya.myfreshworks.com/profile
Prof. (Dr.) Vishwa Nath Maurya (born on 15th July 1974) is one of the most notable top Indian Educationist, Distinguished Professor, Eminent Mathematician, Statistician, Management Scientist and Data Analyst. Presently Prof. VN Maurya is working as a senior executive academic administrator position of Pro -Vice Chancellor at West Coast International University of Sciences, Technology, Management and Arts (formerly known as West Coast University, United States of Americas). Prior to joining as Pro -Vice Chancellor of the West Coast International University, USA, Prof. V N Maurya worked as a Visiting Professor, Distinguished Professor & Executive Dean and Director, Faculty of Science & Technology, Academic Affairs, Research & Development at Crown University International Chartered Inc. (CUICI), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina (USA) for over 11 years. Before joining as an Executive Dean and Director at CUICI, Prof. Maurya has been appointed two times as Professor/Dean and Senior Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, and Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at Copperstone University, Zambia. Prof. Maurya served over 25 years in several premier Indian, Fijian, African and American Universities in all ranks/capacities of Lecturer to full Professor, Head of Department, Academic Dean, Executive Dean of Faculty and Director of Engineering Institutes, Controller of Examinations (CoE) and Pro-Vice Chancellor. He had joined as Dean and Controller of Examinations at Oriental University, Indore (M.P) in March 2017 after serving as Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at K.L. University, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh (NAAC accredited A++ grade University and Institution for National Importance, declared by the Govt. of India). He has vast experience of innovative teaching, scientific research, academic leadership and excellence, strategic planning & development as an experienced, exemplary, dynamic and distinguished Professor, Head of Dept., Controller of Examinations, Dean Academics and Executive Director of Technical Institutes in The University of Fiji, Fiji Islands;’ Crown University International Inc. USA; U.P. Technical University, Lucknow; Rajasthan Technical University, Kota; Singhania University, Jhunjhunu; Mody University of Science & Technology (formerly known as MITS Deemed University), Rajasthan. In view of driving his academic excellence and providing strategic direction Prof. Maurya was appointed as Professor and Dean (Faculty of Science & Technology, and Faculty of Postgraduate Studies) at Copperstone University, Zambia (South Africa) on 14th May 2015 and after its 7 years recently on 13th May 2022 he has been appointed again as Senior Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences & Engineering of Copperstone University, Zambia which is a unique and premier Chartered Zambian University. In 2004, Dr. V N Maurya was awarded firstly for full Professor rank along with Head of Department in the Singhania University, Rajasthan under the leadership of its Founder Chancellor Mr. D.C. Singhania, an eminent Advocate and International lawyer. Prof. Maurya has been appointed several times for Head Examiner of Central Evaluation by Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University (CSJMU), Kanpur and U.P. Technical University Lucknow (Now renamed AKTU Lucknow). Since August 2019, Prof. Maurya has been serving as India and USA Chapter Member and Evaluation Commission Member of International Accreditation Organization, (IAO), Houston, USA on honorary basis. https://german.iao.org/global-chapters/India-Uttar-Pradesh-chapter/Dr-Vishwa-Nath-Maurya
Prof. V.N. Maurya accomplished his B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. in first division with specialization in Mathematics and Statistics during 1991-2000 under supervision of Prof. (Dr.) S.N. Singh, Ph.D. (BHU) Professor/HoD and Vice-Chancellor (Retired), Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad/Ayodhya (NAAC accredited B+ Grade State University of U.P. Govt., India). Later in 2001-2003, he accomplished MBA (Masters of Business Administration) in first division (Grade B+) with specialization in Computer Science, Operations and Finance Management from Newport University, California, USA. For his significant substantial research works as sole and principal author published in worldwide peer reviewed international journals with high impact factors in diversified fields of Science, Technology and Management, Prof. Maurya earned his triple post-doctorate degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from the internationally accredited Crown University International Inc. USA in collaboration with West Coast International University of Sciences Technology Management and Arts, United States of America (formerly known as West Coast University, USA). UNESCO Laureate Prof. (Dr.) Aremu Bashiru, Vice Chancellor, Crown University International Inc. USA, and Prof. (Dr.) Ram Bilas Misra, Ex Vice Chancellor, Dr. RML Avadh University has been Advisor for his post-doctoral D.Sc. Degree. Firstly. in August 2014 for his D.Sc. Thesis entitled “Applications of Mathematical Modelling and Simulation Techniques with Computational Approach” Prof. Maurya was awarded for Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, and then secondly in December 2016 for his D.Sc. Thesis entitled “Performance Analysis and Inference of Some Advanced Queuing Models Using Maximum Entropy Approach and Diversified Computing Techniques” he was awarded for post doctorate Doctor of Science (D.Sc. Tech.) degree in Data Science, Statistical Modelling and Operations Research, Faculty of Engineering and Technology and thricely in February 2022 for his D.Sc. Thesis entitled “Use of Statistical Modelling and Optimization Techniques in Business Management and Industrial Technology” he has been awarded for post doctorate Doctor of Science (D.Sc. Tech.) degree in Management Science & Industrial Technology, Faculty of Business Management and Faculty of Engineering and Technology from the internationally accredited South American University: Crown University International Inc. Argentina, USA in collaboration with West Coast International University of Sciences Technology Management and Arts, United States of America. As a scientific researcher, sole, principal and first author he published over 150 scientific research papers, 12 reference/textbook e-books, book chapters and special issues in peer reviewed and SCI indexed international journals including IEEE, American Journal of Operational Research, American Journal of Modelling and Optimization, American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, American Journal of Computer Research Repository, International Journal of Bioengineering and Life Sciences, International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (WASET, Italy), Open Journal of Optimization (USA), American Open Journal of Agricultural Research, Journal of Cell Science & Theory (JCEST, USA), International Journal of Information Technology and Operations Management, International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Applied Computing (USA), Journal of Engineering and Technology Research (Georgia), International Journal of Electronics Communication and Electrical Engineering (Algeria), World of Sciences Journal-SCI indexed (Austria), Physical Sciences Research International (Nigeria) International Journal of Management & Systems (India) etc. In 2013, while Prof. VN Maurya was serving as Head of Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the University of Fiji, Fiji Islands (Australian Continent)), his post-doctoral D.Sc. dissertation was published in the form of reference book entitled “Performance Analysis and Inference of Mixed Queuing Models” in Scholar’s Press Publishing Co., Saarbrucken, Germany. Based on recognition of his tremendous research contribution and publication of research papers in worldwide peer reviewed international journals with high impact factors as sole and principal author recently Prof. Maurya has been honored for Doctor of Science (D.Sc. Tech.) Honorary Causa degree also in diversified and interdisciplinary fields of Computer Science and Information Technology with major in Mathematical, Statistical and Computing Technologies by some accredited Institutions including the Crown University International Chartered Inc. Argentina, USA (An internationally accredited and recognized American University).
By way of providing value-based result, academic delivery, strategic direction and research publications Prof. Maurya has demonstrated his academic and research excellence. Prof. Maurya has contributed greatly as a global scientific researcher and prolific author in the field of mathematical, statistical and computing data science including Operations Management and other interdisciplinary subjects such as biostatistics, business statistics and agricultural statistics. As profound researcher Prof. Maurya has contributed on role of Editor-in-chief of several Indian and American peer reviewed international journals including American Journal of Biological and Environmental Statistics, Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Applied Mathematics and Physics, American Journal of Computing Research Repository, National Research Jr. of Pure and Applied Mathematics and its Applications, and National Research Jr. of Information Technology and Information Science. Besides contributing as a profound Member of Editorial Board of over five dozen peer reviewed international journals including Time Journal of Engineering and Physical Science (TJEPS), Nigeria Prof. Maurya served as Chief Guest Editor of several special issues “Scope of Statistical Modelling and Optimization Techniques in Management Decision Making Process’’, “Application and Future Scope of Fundamental Mathematical and Computational Sciences in Engineering & Technology’’ and “Review and Future Scope of Computational Modelling, Simulation and Optimization Techniques in Engineering Science and Industrial Technology’’ published respectively in American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, American Journal of Modelling and Optimization[ etc with globally well-known research collaborators and eminent professors Dr. Ram Bilas Misra, Ex Vice-Chancellor, Dr. RML Avadh University, Faizabad and former Professor of Mathematics, State University of New York (SUNY) Korea; Dr. Bijay Singh, Ex National Research Professor of Soil Sciences, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi and Honorary Senior Scientist, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi; Prof. (Dr.) Chandra K. Jaggi, Senior Professor and Ex-Head, Dept. of Operations Research, University of Delhi, India. As an international distinguished mathematician, statistician and data scientist Dr. V.N. Maurya played on role of advisory member of International Scientific Committee of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, and research committees of International Conferences held in Austria, France, India Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Turkey, UAE, UK and USA organized by the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Italy; Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (IRED) USA and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology and Innovation Society, New Delhi, India. As approved Supervisor of UGC recognized various Indian and accredited Foreign Universities for Research Programs leading to M. Tech. (Research), M.Phil., Ph.D. and D.Sc. he has guided as Principal Supervisor and Co-Supervisor to various M. Tech., M.Phil. and Ph.D. research scholars. Apart from this, he is also on active role of Fellow/Senior/Life Member of various reputed national and international professional bodies of India and abroad including Operations Research Society of India, Kolkata; Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi; Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability Kolkata; Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata; IISA Kolkata; Rajasthan Ganita Parishad, Ajmer, Rajasthan; International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, Singapore; International Chartered World Learned Society USA based organization with worldwide offices in Africa/Europe/Oceania & many more. In view of his worldwide outstanding academic and research contributions Prof. Maurya has been honored for over two dozen prestigious national and international awards such as Bharat Gaurav Award, Rastriya Shikcha Ratna Award and Dr. APJ A.bdul Kalam Excellence Award, International Distinguished Scientist Award, Life Time Achievement International Award, Distinguished Scientific Editor and Contributor Award, World Chartered Learned Life Fellow, Salute the Most Notable and Top Distinguished Education Leader of the 21st
Century, Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial National Award, Rashtra Bhushan Award, Vidya Bhushan Award, Asia Pacific Who’s Who Award 2021 & 2019, Asian Admirable Achiever Award, Kohinoor Personality of Asia Award 2017, Asian American Who’s Who Award, Emerald Who’s Who in Asia Award, Asia’s Who’s Who in Men & Women achievement, Intellectual of the year 2019 Award, Rising Personality of the Year Award 2020, Famous India: Nation’s Who’s Who Award, Who’s Who in India Award etc.
Apart from above mentioned worldwide distinctive achievements in multi domains of Academics and Research Development and Community Services, Prof. Maurya has contributed tremendously as a social activist/ reformer for public welfare to aware Indian people towards humanity, integrity, nonviolence and scientific approaches. His significant contributions through his huge and un-tired efforts against extreme corruption, exploitation, injustice and violence in the interest of society and nation may be found partially in his tremendous social works and reforms. Over 200 articles for community services have already been published in several newspapers both in digital and print media including Dainik Jagaran, Amar Ujala, Rastriya Sahara, Swatantra Bharat, Rashtriya Sangam, Bhojpuri Rajya Sandesh, Times of India, Morning Tea News, Samrat Darpan, Saifai Bulletin News, Prahari Newspapers etc. On the topmost priority his keen interest is to focus and strengthen the national integrity and overall development from all aspects. In view of his global recognition in the scientific community of the world as a distinguished management scientist, exemplary mathematician, statistician and as well as a renowned Indian social activist/reformer and politician Prof. Maurya deserves utmost for receiving Bharat Ratna, the most prestigious award of India; UNESCO Awards and Noble Prize, the most prestigious award of the World in coming future.
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Dr. S. Praveen Kumar Director – MBA
Member Board of Trustees, Official Representative of Vice Chancellor, and Adjunct Professor at Crown University International
Director, Department of Management Studies, BIHER, India Published 8 books Soft Skills Trainer and Collaborative Designer of Learning Techniques Editorial/Review Board member in 15 National & International Journals
P R O F I L E W O R K B A C K G R O U N D Director, Dept of Management Studies Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research (Deemed to be University) | June 2014 – present Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies Panimalar Engineering College | June 2003 – May 2014 Visiting Faculty Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Informatics | June 2011 – present Adjunct Faculty Pondicherry University & Loyola College, Twinning Programme (Part-Time) | June 2007 to 2014 CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Coach Practitioner, The Priority Academy, UK Coordinator & Trainer, Business English Certificate Course PEC – conducted by the British Council & University of Cambridge. HR Executive Smile Hospitality Services | June 1994 to May 1995, May 2000 to May 2001. Authored a book titled Prospects of Gamification on User Engagement in Chennai, published by Lambert Academic Publishers (ISBN 978-3-659- 56407-9). Internal Marketing in IT Industry in Chennai, published by LAP (ISBN 978- 3-659-16155-1). Business Communication, published by Rudhra Publication, Chennai (ISBN 978-81-906495-3-7). English Grammar, published by Rudhra Publication, Chennai (ISBN 978-81-906495-9-9). Retail Management, published by Rudhra Publication, Chennai (ISBN 978-81-906495-2-0). Lead Editor for the book An Anthology of Caselets (ISBN 978-93- 5406-975-8) Co-authored a book on Navigating in a Disruptive World (ISBN 978-613-9- 45602-4) Co-authored a book on Solved Question Papers for Operations Management, published by Charulatha Publication, Chennai (ISBN 978-81-904915-0-1) A C A D E M I C H I S T O R Y International Journal of Interdisciplinary Current Researches International Journal of Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies International Journal on Global Business Management and Research International Journal of Management & Business Studies International Journal of Business & Management International Journal of Humanity and Social Sciences European Journal of Applied Social Sciences Research Journal of Business Management & Administration Journal of Advances in Business Management Journal of Business Administration and Management Sciences Research Journal of Social Science Studies Journal of Human Resource Management Tactful Management Research Journal Issues in Business Management and Economics Business Management & Strategy Global Journal of Marketing Management & Research 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
E D I T O R I A L / R E V I E W B O A R D M E M B E R Doctorate in Management Sri Venkateswara University | 2011 Masters in Philosophy Alagappa University | 2007 Masters in Business Administration Panimalar Institute of Management Studies | 2003 Masters in English Literature Annamalai University | 2007 Masters in Psychology University of Madras Bachelors in English Literature Loyola College, University of Madras | 1998 Bachelors in Philosophy JDV, Pune | 2000 P.G.D.H.R.M. Loyola College (LIVE) | 2003
M E M B E R S H I P I N P R O F E S S I O N A L B O D I E S FSIESRP – Fellowship in Society of Innovative Educationalist & Scientific Research Professional BYST – Mentor, BYST is a unit of CII Society (A Not For Profit Organization) – Advisory Board Member USTP – United States Institute of Peace ICEHM – International Centre of Economics, Humanities & Management MMA – Madras Management Association The Ad Club Of Madras The Transactional Analyses Study Circle ISTE – Indian Society For Technical Education ISRD – International Society For Research & Development IFERP – Institution For Engineering Research and Publication I N T E R N A T I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N S Conducted a two-day workshop on Sharpening Employability Skills at Thiruvalluvar Engg College 10&11 Jul’06. Resource Person- ICT in Curriculum Design & Planning at HEI’s at Quaid-E-Millath Govt.College on 23 Mar’10. Resource Person- Young Entrepreneurs Convention organised by Jobsutsav at Hotel Savera on 9 July’11. Conference Chairman at International Conference on Global Business Management organized by S.A. Engineering College on 23 & 24 Feb 2012. Resource Person- Challenges of Job Seekers at Trinity Career Fair organized by MakkalKural at Kamarajar Arangam on 10th March 2015. Resource Person- Disruptive Technologies organized by Cyber Society of India on 28 the Nov’ 2015. Resource Person- FDP Programme on Creative Management Strategists at Dr.MGR University on 20.06.16 Resource Person- Seminar on Developing Career Plan on 21.02.17 & Resource Person for a Workshop on Managing Acute & Chronic Stress on 19.04.18 at GRT Engineering College. Resource Person- Seminar on Entrepreneurship titled “Arising18”on 21.12.17 at Anna Centenary Library. Resource Person- Creative Entrepreneurship on 17.03.18 by Independent Financial Advisors Forum. Resource Person- “MSME Connect” on 12.4.18 organized by MSME at Anna University. Resource Person- “Subverting the Entrepreneurial Paradigm” at Sacred Heart Seminary on 7.7.18. Guest Lecture on “Interview Skills” and Video Resume at VIT, Vellore on 11.3.19. Resource Person for a session in the International Webinar Conference on Responding to Changing Business by Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute on 22.3.2020. Advisory Board Member and Session Chair for the International Conference on Disruptions in Business in Kalasalingam University on 20.06.2020. Resource Person for a National Conference on India 2020 by St. Joseph College, Trichy Resource Person for a Seminar on Business 2020 by Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Anna University & Indo Asian Chamber of Commerce S P E C I A L I N V I T E E Advisory Board Member and Visiting Faculty | May 2016 – till date. MPRH Institute, Iran International Conference on Management & Fuzzy Logic – 1 | 2016 Iran University of Science & Technology International Conference on Business Intelligence | 2017 MPRH Institute, Iran International Conference on Management & Fuzzy Logic – 2 | 2017 University of Mazandaran, Iran International Workshop on Mathematical Modeling in Operations Research | 2017 University of Eyvanekey, Iran Seminar on the Nuances of Indian Education | 2017 Ministry of Industry, Mine & Trade, Iran International Seminar on Business Management | 2017 BIHER & Putra Intelek International College Conference Convener: International Conference on Management Challenges &Trends in the Digital Era | 2017 Ural Federal University, Yekarterinburg Visiting Faculty | 29 June 2019 – 4 Aug 2019 MPRH Institute, Iran 8th International Conference on Recent Challenges in Engineering & Technology (ICRCET-2020), Singapore – IFERP Organizing Committee Member | 30-31 Jan 2020 Crown University Intl. Chartered Inc. Santa Cruz in Argentina, Americas and partners in Nigeria, Benin Republic, Ghana and Liberia Board of Trustee | 2020
P A R T I C I P A T I O N I N F D P ’ S ( S E L E C T I V E L I S T ) : Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators – University of Pennsylvania Design Thinking for Innovation – University of Virginia Introduction to Personal Branding – University of Virginia Private Equity and Venture Capital – Bocconi University Digital Transformation – International Business Management Institute PredictionX: Omens, Oracles, and Prophecies – HavardX The Global Business Environment: Evolution and Dynamics – Coventry University Innovation: The World’s Greatest – University Of Leeds Blended Learning Practice – Athabaska University Mastering Your Personal and Professional Growth – Charles Sturt University The Psychology of Learning – Monash University I N T E R N A T I O N A L O N L I N E C E R T I F I C A T I O N S Management Education: Role of Academicians Madras Management Association Case Study Approach XIME, Chennai IPR – Concepts & Concerns VIT University Retail Management Ma Foi Academy Changes in the Higher Education Sector and Strategies for Management Education in India Business Standard HRM for Technical Institutions RMD & Indian Heritage Academy Innovative Teaching Methods SRM School of Management Soft Skills Infosys Technologies Communication Skills and Technical Seminar Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology Teaching Management InnovativeTechniques Velammal IMS &AICTE Management of Engineering Colleges for Quality Education Engineering Staff College of India, Hyderabad. English Proficiency Advanced- British Council Strategy Consulting Virtual Experience Program – BCG Business Accelerator-International Olympic Committee Industry 4.0 – Tata The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing – Google Digital Unlocked Marketing and Retail Analytics -Great Learning Academy Leading in a VUCA World – ICT Academy Strategy and the Sustainable Enterprise – IIM – B Career Edge – TCS ION Introduction to Sustainable Finance – UNTAR The Future of Work: Preparing for Disruption – World Bank Group Finding Funding – HP Innovative Educator – Microsoft Gender Inclusivity in Peace Building – United States Institute of Peace Entrepreneurship –
Cisco O N L I N E C O R P O R A T E & A C A D E M Y C E R T I F I C A T I O N S J O U R N A L S – P E E R R E V I E W E D ( S E L E C T I V E L I S T ) ‘Anantha Ramakrishna’ Gold Medal, for proficiency in B.A. English Literature, Loyola College, 1998. Best Administrator, conferred by MPRH Institute, Iran. Best Teacher Award, from Panimalar Engineering College,2004. Rashtriya Vidya Saraswati Puraskar, conferred by International Institute of Education & Management, New Delhi. Star of Asia Award, conferred by International Business Council, New Delhi. Glory of Education Excellence, conferred by International Business Council, New Delhi. Best Administrator Award, from Top Engineers Faculty & Students Award, Pondicherry C R E D I T S Organic Products as Key Differentiator for Business Success – Case Studies in the US & European Context European Journal for Commerce and Management Research | (ISSN 2051-8099) Employees’ Perception towards Tiered Compensation Management System of a Reputed Dairy Processing Company in Chennai Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal | (ISSN2249-9598) The Indian Economic Scenario: Growing challenges in a turbulent environment World Affairs | (ISSN 0971-8052) Sustained surge in gold demand despite a scenario of rising prices –An analysis ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Finance & Risk Management | (ISSN 0976-7185) Impact and Implications of Government Measures to curb gold imports-An Analysis Journal of Commerce & Management Thought | (ISSN 0975-623X) An empirical assessment of a telecom major applying the tool of leverages Asian Journal of Management | (ISSN 0976-495X) Development Paradigm of poverty alleviation through fostering micro entrepreneurship – An analytical review Asian Journal of Management | (ISSN 0976-495X) Internal Marketing- A Conceptual Framework Journal of Commerce &Trade | (ISSN 0973-4503) ICT Driven Education in India Indian Journal of Science & Technology | (ISSN 0974-5645) Published an article titled Chennai’s Evolution in the Retail Revolution in the book “Emerging Trends in Retailing” published by Excel Books, New Delhi (ISBN 978-81-7446-604-4). Published a Case titled Plastic Life in the book “Developing Analytical Skill: Case Studies in Management” published by Shroff Publishers, Mumbai (ISBN 10:81-8404-042-3) Published a Case Study titled The Great Indian Retailing Metamorphosis in the book “Developing Analytical Skill: Case Studies in Management” published by Shroff Publishers, Mumbai (ISBN 10:81-8404-042-3) C H A P T E R S I N B O O K S P U B L I C A T I O N S Employee Turnover Intent: IIM – Kozhikode Internal Marketing in IT Companies:IIM – Bangalore Higher Investment in Human Capital: Loyola College Harnessing the potential of HR: Loyola College Focus on strengthening Primary Education: Loyola College Talent Management in the BPO sector: Bharathidasan Institute of Management Emotional Intelligence: SaiRamEngg College Micro-Credit: Muthayammal Engg College Niche Strategy: Loyola College Business Ethics: Sai Ram Engg College Internal Marketing: Muthayammal Engg College Teachers as Mentors: ICFAI National College
P A P E R P R E S E N T A T I O N S : I N T E R N A T I O N A L Capital Structure of select Pharma companies operating in India –An Analysis Research Journal of Humanities and Social Science | (ISSN 0975-6795) Internal Marketing in Information Technology Industry in Chennai Indian Streams Research Journal | (ISSN 2230-7850) India’s Recent Economic Performance and Future Outlook-Need for Cautious Optimism IJRCEM | (ISSN 2231-4245) The US Economy in the Post Crisis ScenarioHolding Little Cause for Cheer IJRCEM | (ISSN 2231-4245) Retail Revolution: Annamalai University Plateauing of People: MGR University Knowledge Economy: Mother Teresa University Micro Franchising: Kalasalingam University Corporate Social Responsibility: Kalasalingam University Global Marketing Strategies: MMA & SRM School of Mgmt. Human Values and globalisation: J.A.College of Arts and Science Managing Employee Diversity: St.Joseph’sCollege of Engineering Brand Management: SNS College of Engineering Learning Organisation: Sastha Engineering College SHRM for Future Organisation: Aalim Mohammed Salegh Engg College Stimulated Equity Market: Rajalakshmi Engineering College Changing Dimensions in Retail: Vellamal Engineering College 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
J O U R N A L S – P E E R R E V I E W E D ( S E L E C T I V E L I S T ) P U B L I C A T I O N S C O U N T R Y R E P R E S E N T A T I V E F O R I N D I A , C O – P U B L I S H E R & E D I T O R I A L B O A R D M E M B E R O F A R A B I A N G R O U P O F J O U R N A L S Kuwait Chapters of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review Impact Factor (SJIF) 4.986 | (ISSN 2224-8358) Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review (Oman Chapter) Impact Factor (SJIF) 3.811 | (ISSN 2223-5833) Nigerian Chapters of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review Impact Factor (SJIF) 3.159 | (ISSN 2315-8638) Singaporean Journal of Business Economics and Management Studies Impact Factor (SJIF) 5.023 | (ISSN 2301-3621) International Journal of Accounting Research Journal of Research and Development Review of Public Administration & Management
P A P E R P R E S E N T A T I O N S : N A T I O N A L P U B L I C A T I O N S – S C O P U S I N D E X E D J O U R N A L Research on strategic transformation of marketing organic and herbal products with respect to Chennai city Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development | 2019 Name of the Author – Anbarasi, M., Kumar, S.P. Impact factor – 0.06 Consequences towards E-pharmacy and its validated growth firms on herbal and organic products Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development | 2019 Name of the Author – Anbarasi, M., Kumar, S.P. Impact factor – 0.06 Production and marketing of coffee crops with special reference to coffee plantations in Dindigul district International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Anbarasi, M., Kumar, S.P. Impact factor – 6.02 Examination on maintenance the board in coca-cola company International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Gowtham, C.S., Kumar, S.P., Banupriya Impact factor – 6.02 Perception about unit linked insurance plan from the customer at Kotak Mahindra Bank International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Chakravarthi, C.S.G., Kumar, S.P. Impact factor – 6.02 Economic position victimization quantitative relation at diamond cluster of company pvt. ltd International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar, S.P., Ramamoorthy, R., Priya, N. Impact factor – 6.02 P U B L I C A T I O N S – S C O P U S I N D E X E D J O U R N A L Employee welfare motive at sarworld wide logistics pvt ltd International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar, S.P., Pavithra, J., Nishitha, S.K.S. Impact factor – 6.02 Profitability analysis of domain to host International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Chakravarthy, C.S.G., Kumar, S.P Impact factor – 6.02 Working capital towards royal enfield in venkateshwara bike zone International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Chakravarthy, C.S.G., Kumar, S.P., Madhan, G Impact factor – 6.02 Performance appraisal with reference to Loganathan interior company International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar, S.P., Karthikeyan, P., Raviteja, D. Impact factor – 6.02 Employee Relations and Retention at Indira Projects & Development Private Ltd., Chennai International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar, S.P Impact factor – 6.02 A Novel work on digital payments in India International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 8 (2 special issue 8),, pp 275 – 244 | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar, S.P, Chakravarthy C.S.G Impact factor –
6.02 P U B L I C A T I O N S – S C O P U S I N D E X E D J O U R N A L S Employee Satisfaction towards training program with reference to butterfly gandhimathi home applaiances ltd International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 8 (2 special issue 8),, pp 275 – 244 | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar.N, Kumar S.P. Impact factor – 6.02 Perception of Employees towards recruitment process adopted by KGISL, Coimbatore International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 8 (2 special issue 8),, pp 275 – 244 | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar.N, Kumar S.P. Impact factor – 6.02 Performance appraisal with reference to Loganathan interior company International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 8 (2 special issue 8),, pp 275 – 244 | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar, S.P., Karthikeyan, P., Raviteja, D. Impact factor – 6.02 Talent acquisition under human resource, in satlink consultancy services, Chennai International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Ravimohan, S., Kumar, P., Nivetha Impact factor – 6.02 Impact of retail banking International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering | 2019 Name of the Author – Kumar, P., Ramamoorty, R., Suresh, M Impact factor – 6.02 Note: Total 22 Articles indexed in Journals
P U B L I C A T I O N S – G O O G L E S C H O L A R C I T A T I O N Applicability of Fulmer and Springate models for predicting financial distress of firms in the finance sector–an empirical analysis ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Finance and Risk Management 4 (1), 2349-2325 | 2013 Name of the Author – R Arasu, D Balaji, S Praveen, N Thamizhselvi Impact factor – 1.961 A Conceptual Study of Malassurance–The Emerging High Potential Insurance Distribution Channel Asian Journal of Management 4 (4), 272-276 | 2013 Name of the Author – CD Balaji, SP Kumar, R Arasu, KS Kumar Impact factor – 0.252 A study of launch of Uninor in Maharastra International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 119 (12) | 2013 Name of the Author – M Praveen Kumar, S., Hameed Hussain, J., Kumar Impact factor – 0.252 A study of employees motivation in Rohini Plasto Pack International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 119 (12) | 2018 Name of the Author – P Praveen Kumar, S., Hameed Hussain, J. Impact factor – 0.252 A report on evaluating the effectiveness of training program among the employee’s in HLL Life Care Limited, Akkulam Factory International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 119 (12) | 2018 Name of the Author – S Praveen Kumar, S., Hameed Hussain, J. Impact factor – 0.252 A study on internet banking in the State Bank of India International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 119 (12) | 2018 Name of the Author – H Praveen Kumar, S., Hameed Hussain, J., Prasad Impact factor – 0.252 A study on cash management at “IDBI” Patna International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 119 (12) | 2018 Name of the Author – M Praveen Kumar, S., Mushataque Impact factor – 0.252 P U B L I C A T I O N S – G O O G L E S C H O L A R C I T A T I O N A Project on Business Development, SWOT Analysis and Customer Retention activities in existing Potential within a limited territor
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Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.Annan studied economics at Macalester College, international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and management at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters including serving as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was appointed the Secretary-General on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council, and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first office holder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as Secretary-General by Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2007. As the Secretary-General, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy; worked to combat HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa; and launched the UN Global Compact. He was criticized for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme, but was largely exonerated of personal corruption. After the end of his term as UN Secretary-General, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to the ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regards to conflict resolution. In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis.
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Kofi Annan (born April 8, 1938, Kumasi, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died August 18, 2018, Bern, Switzerland) was a Ghanaian international civil servant, who was the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. He was the corecipient, with the United Nations, of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2001.
Annan, whose father was governor of Asante province and a hereditary paramount chief of the Fante people, studied at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi before enrolling at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., where he received a bachelor’s degree in economics. He continued his studies at the Institute for Advanced International Studies in Geneva. He earned a master’s degree while a Sloan fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971–72.
Annan began his career with the UN as a budget officer for the World Health Organization in Geneva in 1962. With the exception of a brief stint as the director of tourism in Ghana (1974–76), he spent his entire career with the UN, serving in several administrative posts. On March 1, 1993, he was elevated to undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations. In that position he distinguished himself during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly in his skillful handling of the transition of peacekeeping operations from UN forces to NATO forces.
Because Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Annan’s predecessor as secretary-general, had alienated some member nations—most notably the United States—with his independent and aloof style, Annan entered office with the tasks of repairing relations with the United States and reforming the UN bureaucracy. Soon after becoming secretary-general, he introduced a reform plan that sought to reduce the organization’s budget and streamline its operations, moves that were welcomed by the United States. Other priorities included restoring public confidence in the UN, combating the AIDS virus, especially in Africa, and ending human rights abuses.
In 2001 Annan was appointed to a second term. Later that year the September 11 attacks occurred in the United States, and global security and terrorism became major issues for Annan. In 2003 the United States launched a war against Iraq without receiving approval from the UN Security Council, and Annan’s subsequent criticism of the war strained relations with the United States (see Iraq War). Later in 2003 Annan appointed a panel to explore the UN’s response to global threats, and he included many of its recommendations in a major reform package presented to the UN General Assembly in 2005. A number of measures were later adopted; the proposal to expand the Security Council from 15 to 24 members was among those rejected. In 2005 Annan was at the centre of controversy following an investigation into the oil-for-food program, which had allowed Iraq—under UN supervision—to sell a set amount of oil in order to purchase food, medicine, and other necessities. A report described major corruption within the program and revealed that Annan’s son was part of a Swiss business that had won an oil-for-food contract. Although Annan was cleared of wrongdoing, he was criticized for his failure to properly oversee the program. In 2006 Annan’s term ended, and he was succeeded by Ban Ki-Moon.
In 2007 Annan was named chairperson of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an organization aiding small-scale farmers; AGRA was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He later played a crucial role in resolving the Kenyan election crisis that began in late December 2007, eventually brokering a power-sharing agreement between the government and the opposition on February 28, 2008. In the same year, he received the Peace of Westphalia Prize, awarded biannually for contributions to unity and peace in Europe, and became chancellor of the University of Ghana. In 2007 he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that promotes peace, sustainable development, human rights, and the rule of law.
In February 2012 Annan was appointed Joint Special Envoy for Syria by the United Nations and the League of Arab States. His core diplomatic effort consisted in delivering to the Syrian government a six-point proposal for ending the country’s civil war, a plan endorsed by the Security Council. The proposal enjoined Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s government to take significant steps, including ending all fighting operations. The Syrian government formally accepted the plan in March but continued its attacks on rebel forces and on popular demonstrations. In August Annan announced his demission as Joint Special Envoy, citing a lack of unity and political will among world powers to resolve the conflict.
Annan coauthored a number of works. The memoir Interventions: A Life in War and Peace (cowritten with Nader Mousavizadeh) was published in 2012.
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Traditional Herbalists and Cancer Management in Kumasi, Ghana
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Kieran S. O’Brien
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Amr S. Soliman
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Kofi Annan
Department of Herbal Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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Richard N. Lartey
Department of Herbal Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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Baffour Awuah
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
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Sofia D. Merajver
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. University of Michigan Medical School and Center for Global Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Kieran S. O’Brien, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;
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Amr S. Soliman: ude.hcimu@namilosa
Abstract
Cancer incidence rates are increasing in sub-Saharan Africa where traditional medical practitioners (TMPs) are involved in cancer management. Little is known about the specific role that TMPs play in cancer management in Ghana; we hypothesize that an understanding of the practices of TMPs with regard to cancer patients would help to enhance literacy about cancer amongst TMPs and would contribute to the diagnosis of cancer at earlier stages, by avoiding the detrimental delays while enlisting their help in certain activities that enhance cancer care. To elucidate the nature of the involvement of TMPs in cancer management, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 42 TMPs who practice in Kumasi, Ghana. The interviews elicited information about their knowledge and practices regarding cancer management and interactions with local hospitals. The results showed that TMPs tended to identify cancers as diseases of visible masses, fungating lesions, ulceration, and bleeding reflecting the advanced stages and types of cancers they usually encounter. TMPs identified certain causes of cancer and believed that they can treat and prevent cancer. These results indicate that TMPs are significant health service delivery resources in Ghana for patients potentially affected with cancer. Our work suggests that dedicated efforts to further integrate TMPs into the overall health care system would be beneficial to patients. Future research should examine the role of cancer education and training programs for TMPs to enhance their knowledge, strengthen their ability to complement allopathic practitioners, and increase early detection and treatment efforts through appropriate and timely referrals.
Keywords: Traditional herbalists, Cancer, Epidemiology, Ghana
Background
It is estimated that more than half of incident cancer cases and two thirds of cancer deaths occur in developing countries [1]. As life expectancy increases over the next few decades, cancer incidence and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to increase drastically [1–4]. In Ghana, cancer is already a leading cause of mortality [4], and future increases in incidence and mortality are predicted [1–5].
Among the most significant challenges Ghana faces in cancer control and prevention are low public awareness of the symptoms of cancer, late presentation of the disease across subtypes, and incomplete or delayed treatment [6]. Data from the Oncology Directorate at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana, indicate that 66 % of cervical cancer patients present at stage III and only 7 % present at stage I [6]. Use of alternative therapies often leads to delays in treatment and late-stage presentation, increasing the likelihood of poor survival [7, 8]. For example, about half of the women in a study about breast cancer treatments in Ghana used alternative treatments before and during hospital treatments, which often led to delays in the conventional treatment. Furthermore, nearly 90 % of patients who stopped hospital treatment altogether pursued alternative therapies instead [7, 8].
Traditional medical practitioners (TMPs) are the most prevalent providers of alternative treatments in Ghana, and populations throughout Africa rely on TMPs for primary health care needs [9–11]. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 100,000 TMPs are uniformly distributed throughout Ghana, resulting in approximately one TMP for every 400 people [10]. In contrast, there is only one allopathic practitioner for every 12,000 people [10]. Not surprisingly, the WHO estimates that 70 % of the population in Ghana relies on traditional medicine for health care [10].
TMPs are culturally accepted as medical practitioners throughout the country and play important psychosocial and perhaps also medical roles in conducting treatments not provided by allopathic medicine, due to the deficits in allopathic practitioners and/or distrust of conventional medicine or other factors [7, 8, 12, 13]. Due to their important cultural role, availability, and accessibility in Ghana, traditional healers are a vital part of the health care system. Widespread beliefs in spiritual causes underlying chronic conditions and the cultural endorsement of traditional healers as experts in spiritually derived conditions further suggest the importance of their role in cancer [12, 13]. In Africa, research has been conducted on the role of traditional healers in mental health care [14–16] as well as communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS [17–20]. Several studies have been conducted on traditional healers in cancer in sub-Saharan African countries [21–23], yet there is little information about the role of traditional healers in cancer management in Ghana.
The objectives of this study were to examine the role that traditional herbalists play in cancer management in Kumasi. In addition, as a secondary objective, we evaluated the effect of a formal educational training workshop on cancer and its reflection on the knowledge and referral patterns of traditional herbalists in Kumasi.
Methods
In conjunction with WHO’s promotion of traditional medicine [9–11], the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Ghana recognizes the essential role of TMPs in health care and has made efforts to integrate traditional medicine into the national health care system. In 2000, the MOH established the Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC) to promote, control, and regulate traditional medical practice and to register those TMPs who comply with government guidelines [24]. The establishment of the TMPC encouraged TMPs to gain more formal training and education to authenticate their practices in the eyes of both the government and the general public. As a result, opportunities for TMPs to receive training and education have become quite commonplace in recent years [24, 25].
The Oncology Directorate at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi provided training workshops that aimed at educating all registered TMPs in Kumasi on the signs and symptoms of common cancers. This workshop emphasized the importance of prompt referrals and provided all participants with KATH referral forms. KATH has received an overwhelming response and interest from both registered and unregistered TMPs and has trained 150 TMPs so far over a period of 6 months. These workshops however, had no formal evaluation or follow-up component and thus no means to measure the knowledge gained as a result of the training or any potential changes in referral patterns after the training.
Along with the TMPC regulations, the MOH established the Ghana Federation of Traditional and Alternative Medicine (GHAFTRAM) to serve as a national umbrella organization to encompass formerly independent traditional healers’ associations [24, 25]. There are seven associations included under GHAFTRAM, each representing a different traditional approach to healing. For example, the Ghana National Association of Traditional Healers (GNATH) is one such association under GHAFTRAM and includes those TMPs who identify themselves as traditional herbalists. According to Ghana’s 2010 Population and Housing Census, there are 3,144 TMPs registered with the TMPC in the Ashanti region in central Ghana [26]. Of these, 179 are located in the Kumasi area, including 101 registered TMPs who are members of GNATH located in the Kumasi area ([26] and personal communication with the GHAFTRAM president).
Semi-structured interviews were conducted among TMPC-registered herbalists who practice in Kumasi. The interview was developed based in part on an instrument used in previous similar studies [25, 27] and was reviewed by a co-author of this study (KA). The instrument was pilot tested on ten eligible participants. As no significant changes were made to the original interview instrument, the ten pilot-tested interviews were included in the analysis.
Interviews were conducted from June 2011 to September 2011. Potential participants were telephoned to set up an interview date, time, and location with the majority of the interviews taking place at the location of the herbalists’ practices. Written informed consent was obtained from study participants before the beginning of the interviews. All interviews were conducted in Twi by a trained medical herbalist, a coauthor of this study (RLN), who was trained as an interviewer for the purposes of this study. The interview took an average of 45 min to complete and consisted of five sections, as follows: background, training history, practice details, cancer, and perspectives on biomedicine. Interviews were audio-recorded to ensure accurate translation and the recording of responses, if a separate written consent was obtained. Potential participants were contacted a maximum of three times by phone before being counted as having refused. Those herbalists who did not currently and regularly see patients were ineligible for this study.
A list of 101 TMPC-registered herbalists in Kumasi was obtained from the president of GNATH. Of these, 58 herbalists from different geographical regions of Kumasi were contacted; nine were ineligible, and seven refused to participate. The final sample consisted of 42 eligible participants.
Interview data were entered and managed in Excel and analyzed in both Excel and SAS (version 9.2; SAS Institute, Cary, NC). A mixed-methods approach was used for analysis. Qualitative data from open-ended interview questions were categorized and coded to generate broad common themes for analysis. Both qualitative and quantitative data were used to generate descriptive statistics to provide an overview of the demographic background; training history; practice details; knowledge of, and approaches to, cancer; and perspectives on biomedicine. To evaluate the KATH training workshop on cancer, the sample was stratified based on workshop attendance. Chi-square tests and t tests were used to determine differences between these two groups on selected variables from each interview section.
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Michigan, the Committee on Human Research, Publication, and Ethics of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana.
Results
provides information on the socio-demographic characteristics and training history of the study participants. The majority (66.7 %) of herbalists were male. Ages of participants ranged from 26 to 78 years, with a mean of 47.8 years. Most participants were Christian (71.4 %), and the vast majority (85.7 %) had achieved some level of education. Roughly half of the herbalists (52.4 %) practiced herbal medicine as their primary occupation. Regarding treatments prescribed to patients, 21.4 % regularly utilized spiritual therapies such as prayer or divination in conjunction with herbal remedies. The most common forms of training in herbal medicine were training by family members (59.5 %) and the receipt of knowledge from spiritual sources such as through dreams or visions (28.6 %). About a quarter (23.9 %) of the study participants reported receiving some form of formal education and/or training in herbal medicine.
Table 1
VariableMean (SD)Age (years)47.8 (11.3)Years of training6.7 (5.8)aYears of practice11.7 (12.1)Groupsn (%)GenderMale28 (66.7)Female14 (33.3)ReligionChristian30 (71.4)Muslim6 (14.3)Traditional3 (7.1)None3 (7.1)EducationAny level of education36 (85.7)No education6 (14.3)Occupations in addition to herbal treatmentYes20 (47.6)No22 (52.4)Type of practiceHerbal medicine33 (78.6)Herbal and spiritual9 (21.4)Type of training in herbal/spiritual medicinebFrom family members25 (59.5)Through dreams/visions12 (28.6)Formal training10 (23.9)Attended the KATH cancer training workshopYes21 (50.0)No21 (50.0)Attended other training workshopsYes36 (85.7)No6 (14.3)
displays details of the participants’ herbal medicine practices. The overwhelming majority of participants require cash payments for their services. About half of participants (54.8 %) stated that they specialize in specific diseases and/or conditions, the most common being typhoid, malaria, and infertility, three very common conditions affecting residents in Kumasi. The majority of herbalists (59.5 %) kept some form of records of their patients. Many use biomedical equipment such as weighing scales or stethoscopes, and most participants collaborate with biomedical facilities through the use of laboratory diagnostics or referrals for treatment. In fact, 85.7 % of participants said they referred patients to hospitals or clinicians routinely. The herbalists refer patients with particularly severe conditions, such as those who require surgery, or those patients for whom they feel that they do not have the adequate knowledge or skills to treat appropriately.
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VariableMean (SD)Patients seen/month119.3 (139.3)New patients seen/month72.5 (113.9)Groupsn (%)Payment typeaCash41 (97.6)Otherb3 (7.1)SpecializationYes23 (54.8)No19 (45.2)Specialization areasa, c (n=23)Typhoid10 (43.5)Malaria8 (34.8)Infertility8 (34.8)Hemorrhoids5 (21.7)STDs4 (17.4)Keep patient recordsYes25 (59.5)No17 (40.5)Refer patients to hospitals or cliniciansYes36 (85.7)No6 (14.3)
and provide the distribution of participant responses from the cancer section of the interview. All but one participant (97.6 %) claimed to know what cancer is. The most common descriptions of cancer were “wounds” (60.0 %), “destruction of cells and/or tissues” (20.0 %), “lumps” (15.0 %), and “growth” (7.5 %). Of the 42 participants, only ten (25.0 %) mentioned spread or metastasis in their description of cancer. The most common types of cancer recognized by participants were breast (83.3 %), head and neck (52.4 %), skin (52.4 %), and cervix (28.6 %). More than half of the participants (59.5 %) reported knowing what causes cancer. Descriptions of cancer causes included lifestyle factors such as smoking or alcohol use (48.0 %), infections (28.0 %), and nutrition (28.0 %). Only two participants (8.0 %) stated that cancer has spiritual causes. Several participants mentioned breast cancer-specific causes, including “keeping money in bras” (12.0 %) and “excessive fondling of breasts” (12.0 %). Among all participants, 57.1 % said they knew how to prevent cancer, and 21 % said they educate their patients on cancer prevention. Methods of cancer prevention mentioned by participants included lifestyle improvements such as avoiding alcohol and smoking and increasing exercise (41.7 %), improved diet (37.5 %), and avoiding medications such as antibiotics (16.7 %). Several participants said cancer prevention can include safe sexual practices (12.5 %) as well as early diagnosis and treatment (12.5 %).
Table 3
VariablesGroupsn (%)Recognition of cancerYes41 (97.6)No1 (2.4)Description of cancera (n=40)Wounds24 (60.0)Destroys cells, tissues8 (20.0)Lumps6 (15.0)Growth3 (7.5)Tumor2 (5.0)Recognition of cancer metastasis/spread (n=40)Yes10 (25.0)No30 (75.0)Types of cancers recognizeda, bBreast35 (83.3)Head and neck22 (52.4)Skin22 (52.4)Cervical/uterine12 (28.6)Recognition of cancer causesYes25 (59.5)No11 (26.9)Don’t know/skipped6 (14.3)Description of cancer causesa (n=25)Lifestylec12 (48.0)Infections7 (28.0)Nutrition7 (28.0)Environmental exposures6 (24.0)Medications4 (16.0)Genetics3 (12.0)Fondling breasts3 (12.0)Keeping money in bra3 (12.0)Spiritual2 (8.0)Recognition of cancer preventionYes24 (57.1)No12 (28.57)Don’t know/skipped6 (14.3)Description of cancer prevention methodsa (n=24)Lifestyleb10 (41.7)Diet9 (37.5)Avoid medications4 (16.7)Avoid money in bra4 (16.7)Avoid fondling of breast3 (12.5)Safe sex practices3 (12.5)Early diagnosis and treatment3 (12.5)Educate patients about cancer preventionYes21 (50.0)No15 (35.71)Don’t know/skipped6 (14.3)See cancer patientsYes22 (52.4)No20 (47.6)
Table 4
VariableGroupsn (%)Types of cancer patients seena, bBreast17 (77.3)Prostate7 (31.8)Head and neck6 (27.3)Skin6 (27.3)Participants’ cancer patients see others for treatmentYes10 (45.5)No12 (54.5)Others seen for treatment (n=12)Biomedical (hospital, doctor)8 (80.0)Traditional healer4 (40.0)Approach to cancer treatmentHerbs only13 (59.1)Herbs and spiritual9 (40.9)Follow up with cancer patientsYes22 (100.0)No0 (0.0)Refer cancer patientsYes12 (54.6)No10 (45.4)Places/people cancer patients referred to (n=12)Biomedical (hospital)12 (100.0)
About half of all participants (52.4 %) reported seeing cancer patients. The most common cancer sites seen by participants were breast (77.3 %), prostate (31.8 %), head and neck (27.3 %), skin (27.3 %), and cervix (9.5 %). The majority of herbalists (63.6 %) claimed to diagnose cancer themselves through patient histories and examinations. Many participants indicated that they diagnose breast cancer by palpation of the breast as shown in the KATH workshop. Participants also know that patients have cancer from reviewing the reports of the hospital/physician (36.4 %) or laboratories (26.3 %).
Of the 22 participants who see and treat cancer patients, 12 (54.5 %) do not allow these patients to see others for treatment. Those who do allow their patients to see others for treatment (45.5 %) report that their patients can avail themselves of biomedical resources including hospitals and doctors (80.0 %) or other traditional healers (40.0 %). All of the participants reported following their cancer patients to track their status and adherence to treatment. Slightly more than half of participants (54.6 %) reported referring cancer patients to hospitals when they cannot provide adequate treatment.
Among all 42 participants, 22 (52.4 %) believe cancer patients in Ghana face barriers to seeking and receiving treatment. The most common barriers mentioned included cost (50.0 %), lack of knowledge of cancer (50.0 %), stigmatization (31.8 %), and fear of treatment (13.6 %). Other barriers to treatment included distance to health centers and lack of sufficient numbers of health centers.
The final interview section explored participants’ perspectives on collaboration with allopathic medicine. The majority of participants (64.3 %) reported that they collaborate with allopathic practitioners in some manner. Reasons for not collaborating with allopathic practitioners included perceived disrespect from allopathic practitioners and lack of relationships and/or rapport. Nearly all participants (97.6 %) feel that further integration between traditional and allopathic medicine will be positive and beneficial to both types of practices.
Examination of the differences between participants who attended the KATH workshop and those who did not showed a greater proportion of women attending the KATH workshop than men. No other statistical differences were found with respect to the background characteristics of the two groups.
Discussion
This study identified the following important observations. First, the vast majority of TMPs in this population recognize cancer, but their recognition appears to occur only when the signs of the advanced stages of cancer are encountered. The most common signs and cancers they reported were masses (breast and head and neck) and visible lesions/ulceration or discharge (skin or cervical cancers). TMPs’ definition of cancer as “wounds,” “lumps,” and “growths” confirms the fact that most cancers seen by traditional healers are advanced and visible either in size or advanced stage of fungating or infected lesions. The second observation is that these herbalists practice this occupation as a source of income, and among those who see cancer patients, most believe that they can treat and prevent cancer. Finally, this study found that these practitioners are part of the health care system as they keep records, follow up with patients, and refer cancer patients to hospitals, when they deem it is needed.
Regarding TMPs’ recognition of advanced cancers, it is interesting to note that there are other prevalent cancers in this community that were not reported by study participants such as prostate cancer and HIV-related malignancies. Because the vast majority of cancers in this population are diagnosed at advanced disease stage, only advanced cancers that present with large masses, ulceration, or bleeding/discharge tend to be recognized by the healers. Previous research from Ghana and other countries in Africa has shown that TMPs most often claim expertise in visible ailments, such as wounds, snake bites, skin conditions [28–30], or locally prevalent diseases such as malaria [31–33]. Studies on oral health in sub-Saharan Africa indicate that TMPs identify visible symptoms of oral diseases, such as bleeding gums, but diseases of non-visible signs needed training and hands-on experience [27, 34]. Our study indicates that herbalists tend to lack knowledge of the early stages of cancer. Since TMPs are very eager to receive further training from conventionally trained practitioners, it may prove useful for TMPs in Ghana to be made more aware of the early signs and symptoms of locally prevalent cancers in order to augment the early detection of cancer and to integrate this downstaging with treatment efforts of the local hospitals.
These results also indicate that TMPs do play a substantial role in cancer management in Ghana. Previous studies in both Ghana and other sub-Saharan African countries showed that patients often seek traditional treatments for cancer [7, 8, 12], indicating widespread beliefs in the efficacy of herbal and spiritual treatments and the availability and accessibility of such practitioners. Moreover, several previous studies found that TMPs often cite cancer as one of the diseases they commonly see and treat among their patient populations [13, 21, 35]. Similarly, these results reaffirm the role TMPs in Ghana currently play in treating and preventing cancer and define areas of knowledge and skill that could be strengthened among TMPs to improve the availability and quality of care received by cancer patients.
Traditional herbalists appear to be an integral component of the health care system in Ghana and other resource-limited countries in Africa. They prescribe medications, keep records, follow up with patients, and refer patients to other medical practitioners. Though the proportion of herbalists receiving formal training and education was relatively low, the majority of participants expressed a desire to receive more training and a willingness to collaborate with allopathic practitioners to share knowledge and integrate medical practices. Previous research in Ghana and throughout sub-Saharan Africa similarly found the importance of TMPs to overall public health care systems [18, 25, 35]. For all of the above reasons, these practitioners could thus be seen as an important service delivery resource in the health care system, and certain early detection tasks could be shifted to them, in an effort to maximize the utilization of health care practitioners of all types in the war against cancer in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, they could and appear willing to receive continuous education to expand their medical knowledge and encourage them to refer cancer patients at early stages. It is important to note that with regard to cancer prevention, TMPs conveyed accurate information regarding the beneficial effects of diet and lifestyle, even though this knowledge was not included in the formal workshop taught to them prior to this study’s commencing. Previous work has been done on integrating TMPs into public health care systems, particularly regarding HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa [17, 18, 36, 37]. Many of these studies have found positive, beneficial results after providing training and education to TMPs and implementing integration strategies [17, 18, 37].
This is the first study on traditional healers and cancer management in Ghana. This study benefited from both the availability of records of registered herbalists as well as the established rapport between the local medical community and the herbalists. Another strength of the study is the conduction of the interviews in Twi, so that the maximum amount of information could be obtained unhindered by language barriers. Moreover, the interviewer had a background in herbal medicine; thus, any language specific to traditional herbalist practices was understood and accurately recorded. Also, the interviews were semi-structured which allowed the capture of both pre-designed information as well as deviations from structured responses in open-ended formats.
This study included TMPs only from Kumasi, and generalization to Ghana should be considered cautiously. The study included registered TMPs, and differences between registered and unregistered TMPs should also be explored before generalization of the results to all traditional practitioners in Ghana. This study was unable to adequately evaluate the KATH training workshop due to the workshop’s lack of a pre-training knowledge and practice evaluation.
In summary, this study found that traditional healers represent an available, accessible, and acceptable health resource in Ghana, and as such, they could be provided with the education, training, and opportunity for collaboration and task shifting needed to best complement allopathic medicine. Future cancer education and training programs for traditional healers should continue to provide information on signs and symptoms of locally prevalent cancers. Such programs should also focus on downstaging and emphasize the importance of early referrals to better address the serious problems of late-stage presentation in the country.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Ammankwa Abdulai, Mary Margaret Darkwa, and Mary Margaret Owusu Agyemang, as well as the staff at both KATH and KNUST Department of Herbal Medicine, for their assistance in facilitating the interviews of this study as well as for sharing their knowledge of the practices of local traditional herbalists. Kieran O’Brien was supported by the Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) Program of the University of Michigan through funding from the National Cancer Institute grant (R25 CA112383), and the University of Michigan Center for Global Health. SDM gratefully acknowledges support from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Avon Foundation, the Tempting Tables Organization (Muskegon, MI), and the Debbie Strange-Browne Inflammatory Breast Cancer Foundation (Schererville, IN).
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Kofi Atta Annan ( KOH-fee AN-an,[1] - AH-nahn;[2] 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.[3] Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.[4] He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela.[5]
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Annan joined the United Nations in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters, including serving as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was appointed secretary-general on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first officeholder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001 and was succeeded as secretary-general by Ban Ki-moon in 2007.
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About the Podcast
Regarded as one of the modern world’s icons of diplomacy, what is Kofi Annan’s legacy today? What can we learn from him, and how can we prepare for tomorrow based on his vision for a better world?
In this exclusive 10-part podcast, Ahmad Fawzi, one of Kofi Annan’s former spokespersons and Communication Advisor, examines how Kofi Annan tackled a specific crisis and its relevance to today’s world and challenges.
Kofi Annan’s call to bring all stakeholders around the table — including the private sector, local authorities, civil society organisations, academia, and scientists — resonates now more than ever with so many, who understand that governments alone cannot shape our future.
Join us on a journey of discovery as Ahmad Fawzi interviews some of Kofi Annan’s closest advisors and colleagues, including Dr Peter Piot, Christiane Amanpour, Mark Malloch-Brown, Michael Møller, Mark Suzman, Alicia Bárcena and more.
Listen and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud.
Brought to you by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the United Nations Information Service.
Kofi Annan Speeches
As United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and later Chair of his Foundation, Kofi Annan was called upon to deliver many speeches at major events worldwide.
We have selected twenty of Kofi Annan’s speeches for this page, which, taken together, provide a broad understanding of his views on peace, development and human rights. Many of his recommendations for action are as valid and important today as they were when he spoke these words.
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Human rights need guardians. Without protection, anyone’s rights can be violated. A human rights lawyer is a lawyer that focuses on human rights issues such as discrimination based on characteristics like sex, race, gender, and more. They can represent individuals or groups in court both nationally and internationally, challenging unjust laws and policies and working to ensure equal treatment under existing laws. Here are five human rights lawyers making a big impact:
See also: Human Rights Law Firms
Julian Falconer
A Canadian lawyer, Julian Falconer built his career on defending human rights. His alma mater, the University of Toronto, named him as one of their 100 most notable graduates of the twentieth century. At his law firm Falconers LLP, Falconer and his team have represented the family of a young woman who died in custody at a prison; journalists who were unlawfully beaten and arrested at the G20 summit; and Maher Arar, who was detained and tortured after being deported to Syria, instead of Canada, his home. That case made Canadian legal history when Arar received the largest human rights settlement given to an individual plaintiff. Falconer also represented the Urban Alliance on Race Relations in a crucial case, which led to the Court of Appeal for Ontario acknowledging that racial profiling is a valid defense for racial minority communities.
Falconer has received various awards for his work, including the Urban Alliance Race Relations Medal and Pride News Magazine’s African Canadian Achievement Award. He and his team’s work has expanded in recent years, focusing on state accountability, the relationship between Indigenous nations and Canadians, and issues like child welfare, education, and community governance as it applies to Indigenous nations.
Bryan Stevenson
Best known in the general public for his book A Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based human rights organization. Through this organization, Stevenson has taken on and won legal challenges aimed at the prison system. His focuses include unfair and excessive sentencing; innocent death row prisoners; abuse of prisoners and the mentally-ill; and children being prosecuted as adults. Over the course of his career, Stevenson and his team have won relief, reversals, or release for over 135 wrongly-condemned death row prisoners. The cases often go to the United States Supreme Court. In a case from 2012, the court banned mandatory life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences for kids 17 years old and younger, while a more recent case from 2019 ruled in favor of protection for condemned prisoners with dementia.
Stevenson’s work against an unjust criminal justice system and poverty has earned him multiple awards, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize, the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, and the 2016 American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award. In addition to his legal work, Stevenson led the opening of the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The latter is the United States’ first memorial dedicated to the lynching of African Americans, while the Legacy Museum examines the history of slavery, racial segregation, and connection to mass incarceration today.
Amal Clooney
Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney was born in Lebanon, but her family left for England during the Lebanese Civil War. In 2000, Clooney went to Oxford for a law degree, and then New York University of School for a Master of Laws. After working as a barrister in London, Clooney was appointed by the UN as an adviser to Kofi Annan, and her career took off from there. Notable cases include representing Armenia in order to gain recognition of the Armenian Genocide; representing a journalist who was imprisoned after publishing evidence of corruption by Azerbaijan’s president; and representing an Iraqi student forced into sex slavery by ISIS.
Throughout her career, Clooney has advocated for women’s health and human rights with a special focus on sexual violence during war. In 2016, she co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice with husband George Clooney. The foundation seeks to promote justice for survivors of war, give vulnerable children an education, and support refugees searching for safety. In 2018, Clooney became an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Law. Because of her marriage to a famous actor and impressive career, many consider her the most well-known human rights lawyer in the world.
Fatou Bensouda
The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda is one of the world’s most influential human rights lawyers working today. Originally from Gambia, Bensouda received her Barrister of Law from the University of Nigeria and became Gambia’s first international maritime law expert. She then began work as a non-government civil servant with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. First a Legal Adviser and Trial Attorney, she moved up to Senior Legal Adviser and Head of the Legal Advisory Unit from 2002-2004. In 2012, Bensouda was named the chief prosecutor for the ICC. When she began investigating the possibility of war crimes committed by the US forces and allies in Afghanistan, the US revoked her visa, banning Bensouda from the country. Her office plans to continue their investigation.
For her work and status within the human rights community, Bensouda has received many recognitions and awards. In 2009, she received the ICJ International Jurists award for her criminal law work nationally and internationally. In 2011, she was awarded the World Peace Through Law Award, and in 2017, Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Samantha Power
Samantha Power’s career begins with her serving as a war correspondent during the Yugoslav Wars, and then getting her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. From 1998-2002, she served as the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The following year, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. The book examined and critiqued America’s indifference to genocides around the world.
For her dedication to combat global human rights violations, Power became the chair of the Atrocities Prevention Board during Barack Obama’s presidency in 2012. She had previously served as his foreign policy fellow when he was a senator, and is credited with drawing his attention to Darfur. In 2013, she also took on the role of Ambassador to the United Nations, a position she held until 2017. Her office focused on women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, religious freedom, refugees, human trafficking, and other humans rights issues. In 2016, Forbes named her as the 41st most powerful woman in the world.
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El Anatsui is a contemporary artist from Ghana. He was born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana, but moved to Nsukka, Nigeria for college, where he lives today. Anatsui attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology – one of the best universities in Ghana. He studied sculpture and fine arts, later going on to…
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…
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 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…
Early Life and Education Born in the city of Anyako, within the Volta region of Ghana, in 1944, and the youngest of 32 children, El Anatsui is a world renowned contemporary artist known for his unique style of sculpting and collages. He is famous for his use of salvaged resources such as used bottle caps,…
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 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 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…
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About the Podcast
Regarded as one of the modern world’s icons of diplomacy, what is Kofi Annan’s legacy today? What can we learn from him, and how can we prepare for tomorrow based on his vision for a better world?
In this exclusive 10-part podcast, Ahmad Fawzi, one of Kofi Annan’s former spokespersons and Communication Advisor, examines how Kofi Annan tackled a specific crisis and its relevance to today’s world and challenges.
Kofi Annan’s call to bring all stakeholders around the table — including the private sector, local authorities, civil society organisations, academia, and scientists — resonates now more than ever with so many, who understand that governments alone cannot shape our future.
Join us on a journey of discovery as Ahmad Fawzi interviews some of Kofi Annan’s closest advisors and colleagues, including Dr Peter Piot, Christiane Amanpour, Mark Malloch-Brown, Michael Møller, Mark Suzman, Alicia Bárcena and more.
Listen and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud.
Brought to you by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the United Nations Information Service.
Kofi Annan Speeches
As United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and later Chair of his Foundation, Kofi Annan was called upon to deliver many speeches at major events worldwide.
We have selected twenty of Kofi Annan’s speeches for this page, which, taken together, provide a broad understanding of his views on peace, development and human rights. Many of his recommendations for action are as valid and important today as they were when he spoke these words.
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Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.
Contents
1 Early years and family
1.1 Name
2 Education
3 Early career
4 Secretary-General of the United Nations
4.1 Appointment
4.2 Activities
4.2.1 Lubbers sexual-harassment investigation
4.2.2 Oil-for-Food scandal
4.3 Relations between the United States and the United Nations
4.4 UN Resolution 61/225: World Diabetes Day
4.5 Farewell addresses
5 Recommendations for UN reform
6 Post-UN career
7 Honours
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
10.1 Biographies, interviews, and profiles
10.2 Articles
10.3 Speeches
Early years and family
Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana – in what was then the British colony of the Gold Coast. He is a twin, a respected status in Ghanaian culture. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shares the middle name 'Atta', which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'.
Annan's family was part of the country's elite; both of his grandfathers and his uncle were tribal chiefs.[2]
Annan is married to Nane Maria Annan, née Lagergren, a Swedish lawyer and artist who is the half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg. He has two children, Kojo and Ama, from his previous marriage to Titi Alakija, a Nigerian, whom he divorced in the late 1970s. Annan also has one stepchild, Nina Cronstedt de Groot, Nane's daughter from a previous marriage.
Name
In the Ghanaian tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or according to how many of their siblings came before them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday.[3] The middle name, Atta, indicates that he is a twin.
In his earlier years at the UN, Annan's last name had widely been mispronounced as rhyming with "anon"; Annan has let it be known that his name rhymes with "cannon".[4]
Education
From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school taught him "that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere".[5] In 1957, the year Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, Ghana gained independence from Britain.
In 1958, Annan began studying for a degree in economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961. Annan then did a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales IUHEI) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62, later attending the MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) Sloan Fellows program and receiving a Master of Science (M.S.) degree.
Annan is fluent in English, French, Kru, other dialects of Akan, and other African languages.[citation needed][6]
Early career
In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations. From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana. Annan then returned to work for the United Nations as an Assistant Secretary-General in three consecutive positions: Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator, from 1987 to 1990; Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller, from 1990 to 1992; and Peacekeeping Operations, from March 1993 to February 1994.
The Rwandan Genocide took place while Annan was in charge of UN Peacekeeping Operations. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, claims that Annan was overly passive in his response to the incipient genocide. General Dallaire explicitly asserts that Annan held back U.N. troops from intervening to settle the conflict, and from providing more logistical and material support. In particular, Dallaire claims that Annan failed to provide any responses to his repeated faxes asking him for access to a weapons depository, something that could have helped defend the endangered Tutsis. Ten years after the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan admitted "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support."[7]
Annan served as Under-Secretary-General until October 1995, when he was made a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia, serving for five months in that capacity before returning to his duties as Under-Secretary-General in April 1996.
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Appointment
On 13 December 1996, Annan was recommended by the United Nations Security Council to replace the previous Secretary-General, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, whose second term faced the veto of the United States.[8][9] He was confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly,[10] and he started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997.
Activities
Mark Malloch Brown succeeded Louise Frechette as Annan's Deputy Secretary-General in April 2004.
In April 2001, he issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. As Secretary-General, Annan saw this pandemic as a "personal priority" and proposed the establishment of a Global AIDS and Health Fund in an attempt to stimulate the increased spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis.
On 10 December 2001, Annan and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world".
During the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without the support of the United Nations. In a September 2004 interview on the BBC, Annan was asked about the legal authority for the invasion, and responded, "from our point of view, from the charter point of view it was illegal."[11][12]
Annan supported sending a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, Sudan, and worked with the government of Sudan to accept a transfer of power from the African Union peacekeeping mission to a UN one. Annan also worked with several Arab and Muslim countries on women's rights and other topics.
Beginning in 1998 Annan convened an annual UN Security Council Retreat with 15 States representatives of the Council at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Conference Center at the Rockefeller family estate at Pocantico, which was sponsored by both the RBF and the UN.[13] He and his wife also attended the Playhouse at the family estate on the occasion of Brooke Astor's 100th birthday celebration.[14] He is a strong supporter and guest of the family's Asia Society in New York.[15]
Lubbers sexual-harassment investigation
In June 2004, Annan was given a copy of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) report on the complaint of sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and retaliation against Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The report also discussed allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Werner Blatter, Director of UNHCR Personnel, by a long-serving staff member. The investigation report found Ruud Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment and no mention was made publicly of the other charge against a senior official or the two subsequent complaints she filed later that year. In the course of the official investigation, Lubbers wrote a letter that some speculate was a threat to the female worker who had brought the charges of misconduct.[16] However, on 15 July 2004, Lubbers was declared innocent by Kofi Annan.[17] His decision only lasted until November when OIOS issued its annual report to the UN General Assembly noting it has found Lubbers guilty. Widely reported in the media, these events served to weaken Annan's position.
On 17 November 2004, Annan accepted a report clearing UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services Dileep Nair of political corruption and sexual harassment charges—charges which some viewed as retaliation against Nair for supporting the complainant in the Lubbers affair.[citation needed] However, clearance was not viewed favorably by some UN staff in New York, leading to extensive debate on 19 November. In February 2005, Lubbers resigned as head of the UN refugee agency.[18]
Oil-for-Food scandal
In December 2004, reports surfaced that the Secretary-General's son Kojo Annan received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation into this matter.
The Independent Inquiry Committee into The United Nations Oil-for-Food Program was appointed by Annan[19] and led by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker;[20], the director of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. In his first interview with the Inquiry Committee, Annan denied having had a meeting with Cotecna. Later in the inquiry he recalled that he had met with Cotecna's chief executive Elie-Georges Massey twice. In a final report issued on 27 October, the committee found insufficient evidence to indict Kofi Annan on any illegal actions, but did find fault with Mr. Benan Sevan, a Cypriot national who had worked for the UN for about 40 years. Appointed to his Oil-For-Food role by Kofi Annan, Mr. Sevan repeatedly asked Iraqis for allocations of oil to the African Middle East Petroleum Company. Sevan's behavior was "ethically improper", Volcker said to reporters. Sevan for his part, has repeatedly denied the charges and argues that he is being made a "scapegoat". The Volcker report was also highly critical of the UN management structure and the Security Council oversight and strongly recommended a new position of Chief Operating Officer to handle the fiscal and administrative responsibilities which currently fall to the Secretary General's office. The report listed the companies, both Western and Middle Eastern, who illegally benefited from the program.
Relations between the United States and the United Nations
Kofi Annan supported[21] his deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized certain right-wing segments of the United States media in a speech on 6 June 2006: "[T]he prevailing practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable. You will lose the UN one way or another. [...] [That] the US is constructively engaged with the UN [...] is not well known or understood, in part because much of the public discourse that reaches the US heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News."[22] The interim U.S. ambassador John R. Bolton was reported to have told Annan on the phone: "I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time."[23] At the end of Kofi Annan's tenure as Secretary General, Bolton was asked to sum up Annan's years at the UN. He responded simply: "I'll pass."[24] For his part, Bolton was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate and later worked for Fox.
UN Resolution 61/225: World Diabetes Day
Kofi Annan was the overseeing Secretary-General of the United Nations General Assembly during the successful passing (by consensus) of UN Resolution 61/225 - World Diabetes Day. The Resolution was, and still remains, the second-ever UN General Assembly Resolution on any health-related issue (the other being HIV/AIDS). However, 61/225 remains the only Health-related UN Resolution to ever pass by consensus.
The Resolution was sponsored by the Republic of South Africa and Bangladesh, and was passed on 20 December 2006.
Farewell addresses
On 19 September 2006, Annan gave a farewell address to world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, in anticipation of his retirement on 31 December. In the speech he outlined three major problems of "an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights and the rule of law", which he believes "have not resolved, but sharpened" during his time as Secretary-General. He also pointed to violence in Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict as two major issues warranting attention.[25]
On 11 December 2006, in his final speech as Secretary-General, delivered at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, Annan recalled Truman's leadership in the founding of the United Nations. He called for the United States to return to President Truman's multilateralist foreign policies, and to follow Truman's credo that "the responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world". He also said that the United States must maintain its commitment to human rights, "including in the struggle against terrorism."[26][27]
Recommendations for UN reform
After years of research, Annan presented a progress report, In Larger Freedom, to the UN General Assembly, on 21 March 2005. Annan recommended Security Council expansion and a host of other UN reforms.[28]
On 31 January 2006, Kofi Annan outlined his vision for a comprehensive and extensive reform of the UN in a policy speech to the United Nations Association UK. The speech, delivered at Central Hall, Westminster, also marked the 60th Anniversary of the first meetings of the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council.[29]
On 7 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his proposals for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations Secretariat. The reform report is entitled: "Investing in the United Nations, For a Stronger Organization Worldwide".[30]
On 30 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his analysis and recommendations for updating the entire work programme of the United Nations Secretariat over the last 60 years. The report is entitled: "Mandating and Delivering: Analysis and Recommendations to Facilitate the Review of Mandates".[31]
Post-UN career
Upon his return to Ghana, Annan was immediately suggested as a candidate to become the country's next President.[32]
He has become involved with several organizations with both global and African focuses. In 2007, Annan was named chairman of the prize committee for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, was chosen to lead the new formation of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), became a member of the Global Elders, was appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, and was selected for the MacArthur Foundation Award for International Justice.
In the beginning of 2008, as head of the Panel of Eminent African Personalities, Annan participated in the negotiations to end the civil unrest in Kenya. He threatened to leave the negotiations as mediator if a quick decision was not made.[33] On 26 February 2008 he suspended talks to end Kenya's violent post-election crisis.[34] On 28 February, Annan managed to have President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga sign a coalition government agreement and was widely lauded by many Kenyans for this landmark achievement. That was the best deal achieved then under the mediation efforts.
Annan currently serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion USD gift to support UN causes. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN.[35]
Annan is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), an independent authority on Africa launched in April 2007 to focus world leaders' attention on delivering their commitments to the continent. The Panel launched a major report in London on Monday 16 June 2008 entitled Africa's Development: Promises and Prospects.[36]
Kofi Annan was appointed the Chancellor of the University of Ghana in 2008.[37]
Annan has signed up to be one of the Counsellors at One Young World a non-profit organisation which hopes to bring together 1500 young global leaders of tomorrow from every country in the world.
In May 2009 Columbia University announced that Annan will join a new program being launched by Dean John Coatsworth at the School of International and Public Affairs as one of the first group of Global Fellows.The Global Fellows program will bring students together with global practitioners to share firsthand knowledge of experiences in the life of an international or public figure. He is also a fellow of The Committee on Global Thought appointed by the University.
On 2 September 2009, Annan was unveiled as the first Li Ka Shing Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The announcement was made during the school's 5th anniversary celebrations.[38]
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As the world mourns the passing of Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, the pain of his passing is being felt intensely in St. Paul, where Annan got his start as a young student at Macalester College.
“We are both shocked and deeply saddened. He seemed like one of those people that would go on forever,” said Brian Rosenberg, president of Macalester College, where Annan graduated in 1961.
Rosenberg first met Annan in 2004 and got to know the loyal alumnus and former Macalester trustee well as Annan returned several times over the years to speak at the college.
“He was the clearest and most famous embodiment of our mission,” he said. “We feel like we’ve lost a little part of ourselves.”
Annan attended Macalester from 1959 to 1961, earning a degree in economics and setting a school track record in the 60-yard dash.
“He was an outstanding orator,” Roger Mosvick, Annan’s former communications professor, told the Pioneer Press in 1998. “He was a very bright guy who had this ability to adapt to virtually any situation.”
This adeptness in speech contests, of which Annan won several, would serve him well as he went on to join the the United Nations’ World Health Organization in 1962 and later became the U.N.’s secretary-general — a post where he had to react to crisis situations, wars and controversy.
Born to a family of chiefs of the Fante tribe in Ghana, his father was a businessman and provincial governor and his mother was a homemaker. While studying at Ghana’s University of Science and Technology, Annan was offered a scholarship from the Ford Foundation’s Foreign Students Leadership Project. It was this opportunity that brought him to St. Paul. In 1959, he left Ghana to study economics at Macalester. This was his first trip out of Africa and into another culture.
Annan never forgot the warm welcome he received in the cold state of Minnesota.
In a speech in 1994, he described his feelings for Macalester: “We were not merely greeted with tolerance, we were welcomed with warmth.”
Annan returned to the college several times over the years to give commencement speeches. In May he was honored by the college when it renamed its Institute for Global Citizenship as the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship.
“He was obviously an enormous source of pride for us,” Rosenberg said. “I’m really glad he was able to be here and celebrate that with us.”
Fellow student Jack Mason, who became a U.S. magistrate judge and passed away in 2002, was on the speech team with Annan in 1961.
Mason told the Pioneer Press in 1998 that the team would pile into a car and drive all over the state for contests, but the traveling and lack of sleep never seemed to bother Annan.
“Kofi would get out of the car … and he’d be so eloquent and give these speeches that were really something,” Mason said.
That would be another quality Annan would retain throughout his career has he jetted all over the world to give speeches representing the United Nations.
David Lanegran, a former professor of geography at Macalester and a member of the graduating class of 1963, said there was one thing Annan was not good at: American football.
“He could not catch the football to save his soul,” Lanegran told the Pioneer Press in 1998. “I think he had one of the shorter football careers at Macalester.”
In 1984, Annan married Nane Lagergren, a Swedish-born attorney and abstract painter who is the niece of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Hungary who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis. Together they had three children.
Besides Annan’s abilities and accomplishments, what folks from Macalester remember most about him was his humility.
Rosenberg said the humble foreign student from Africa who grew up to become one of the most powerful men in the world never changed in character.
“The most impressive thing about Kofi Annan was that he was even more impressive in private than he was in public,” Rosenberg said. “He never acted like he was more important than you.”
When Annan and his wife visited in May, Rosenberg was reminded again of his friend’s humility when Annan asked for a member of the custodial staff who cleaned the guest house to come see him so he could thank him.
“He took a picture with him,” Rosenberg said. “It really kind of captured the kind of person that he was.”
As the college processes the passing of its most famous son, Rosenberg has found himself thinking back over their many conversations through the years and still being inspired by Annan.
“His faith in the future gives me faith in the future,” Rosenberg said. “He and I taped one interview that we have not yet released. One of the last things he talked about was that change is hard and change takes time. It takes persistence. Sometimes that’s difficult for all of us to remember. I would want to thank him for reminding me of that. If anyone had the right to be frustrated, it would be him. But he never gave up. He just kept working.”
Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, on May 7, 2018, speaks at a reception celebrating the 30th anniversary of Books for Africa, a St. Paul-based nonprofit that collects and ships books to that continent. (Nick Woltman / Pioneer Press)
Macalester College graduate and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan laughs during his appearance at the Institute for Global Citizenship in Markim Hall in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. A life-size bronze bust of the Nobel Peace Prize winner was unveiled at Annan's alma mater. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, appearance at the Institute for Global Citizenship in Markim Hall in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 when a life-size bronze bust of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, left, was unveiled a Macalester College, Annan's alma mater. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
Macalester College graduate and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, is greeted by donor Ruth Stricker Dayton at the Institute for Global Citizenship in Markim Hall in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. A life-size bronze bust of the Nobel Peace Prize winner was unveiled at Annan's alma mater. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited Macalester College in St. Paul on Saturday, April 22, 2006. Annan, along with student leaders raised a new United Nations flag and then spoke to a packed house in the Macalester Field House. (Scott Takushi / Pioneer Press)
In this Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004 photo Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, receives the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, at Buckingham Palace, in London. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004 photo United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anna, right, greets United States President George Bush, before the opening of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations, in New York. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
In this photo dated Sunday, 10 Aug, 1997, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, right, and UN General Secretary Kofi Annan, sit in a rowboat on a lake near the Swedish premiere's summer residence in Harpsund, Sweden. It is a tradition many decades old for the Swedish Prime Minister to row at Harpsund with foreign visitors. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Bertil Ericson, FILE)
In this Thursday Jan. 23, 1997 photo President Clinton looks on as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan answers a reporters question during their joint news conference at the White House after their Oval Office meeting. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson, File)
President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, right, and his wife Nane laugh at a joke during comments welcoming the Clinton's to New York at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Sunday, Sept. 21, 1997. United States Ambassador to the UN Bill Richardson, joked that he hoped all the gathered dignitaries were legally parked - a reference to an earlier diplomatic parking fracas between the UN and the city of New York. (AP Photo/UN, DPI photo by Evan Schneider)
In this Sunday, July 22, 2007 photo Nelson Mandela and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrive together at the 5th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, held at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg, South Africa. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo, File)
In this photo dated Tuesday Aug. 12, 1997, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, centre, inspects the Swedish army base SWEDINT, south of Stockholm, with Swedish defense minister, Bjoern von Sydow, left. The SWEDINT is a training camp for Swedish UN soldiers. Kofi Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (Evan P Schneider/UN via AP, FILE)
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, second left, and U.N. Force Commander in South Lebanon Gen. Sath Kofi Obeng, left, attend a ceremony in honor of the U.N. soldiers killed in South Lebanon since 1978, at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Forces in Southern Lebanon (UNIFSL) Monday June 19, 2000 in the village of Naqoura, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Beirut, near the Israeli border. Annan said Monday that the world body would take firm action against any violations of a U.N.-certified border between Lebanon and Israel. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
In this photo dated Wednesday, March 5, 1997, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a meeting in Annan's U.N. office, as Arafat sought support for his stand against a planned Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. Kofi Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, FILE)
In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan in Moscow, Russia. Putin says he admired former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan whose death was announced on Saturday for his wisdom and courage. Kofi Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
In this photo dated Thursday, May 8, 1997, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, left, greets visiting UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Zhongnanhai, the official compound of the Chinese leadership. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018.(Hitone Saka/Pool via AP, FILE)
In this Monday May 2, 2005 photo U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addresses a conference to review to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
In this photo dated Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998, the Iraqi delegation headed by Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, left, and the U.N. delegation headed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, right, meet in Baghdad. Annan is in the Iraqi capital in a three-day trip in a last attempt to reach a peaceful solution to the standoff over weapons inspections between the U.N. and Iraq and avoid a US-led military intervention. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died aged 80, according to an announcement by his foundation Saturday Aug. 18, 2018.(AP Photo/John Isaac/United Nations Pool via AP, FILE)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, delivers a rare speech to the Security Council at the U.N. Monday March 2, 1998, after council members reached tentative agreement on a resolution warning Iraq of ``severest consequences'' if it violates an arms inspection deal. The council began meeting in the evening to vote on the resolution. At right is this month's Security Council President Abdoulie Momodou Sallah ambassador from Gambia. (AP Photo/David Karp)
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan receives an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, during commencement exercises on Sunday, May 17, 1998 at Macalester College. Placing the hood on his robe is Joan Mondale, a 1952 graduate of Macalester. (Joe Rossi / Pioneer Press)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his wife, Nane leave their New York residence for the U.N. after learning that he and the U.N. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Friday, Oct. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/Matt Moyer)
Standing in front of the United Naitons logo, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan speaks during a news conference at United Nations headquarters Friday, Oct. 12, 2001, in New York after he and the UN were awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/David Karp)
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, right, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, second right, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanonv, center, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, second left, and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, left, listen to questions from journalists after a meeting between Annan and the foreign ministers of the permanent members of the Security Council in Geneva, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003. The meeting was about the situation in Iraq. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A journalist films the black ribbon and a bouquet of flowers adorning the portrait of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at U.N. headquarters, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The United Nations flag flies at half staff in honor of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan at U.N. headquarters, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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2. Annan's appointment as the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1997 was unexpected. He was initially serving as the head of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations when the Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, was not supported for a second term. Annan was then nominated by a group of member states and eventually became the first Secretary-General from sub-Saharan Africa.
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A G20 High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was established on 26 January 2021. The HLIP is tasked with: Identifying the gaps in the financing system for the global commons for pandemic prevention, surveillance, preparedness and response. Proposing actionable solutions to meet these gaps on a […]
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Victor J. Dzau
Panel Advisor, HLIP
President, National Academy of Medicine
Victor J. Dzau is the President of the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM). In addition, he serves as Vice-Chair of the US National Research Council. He is Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dr. Dzau was the Hersey Professor of Medicine and Chairman of Medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as Bloomfield Professor and Chairman of Medicine at Stanford University.
He is an internationally acclaimed leader and physician-scientist who has made a significant impact through his seminal research in cardiovascular medicine and genetics. His research laid the foundation for the development of the class of lifesaving drugs known as ACE inhibitors, used globally to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. He pioneered gene therapy for vascular disease and was the first to introduce DNA decoy molecules to block transcription as gene therapy in humen. His pioneering research in cardiovascular regeneration led to the Paracrine Hypothesis of stem cell action and the therapeutic strategy of direct cardiac reprogramming.
In his role as a leader in health, Dr. Dzau has led efforts in innovation to improve health. 5 years ago, he led the reorganization of the Institute of Medicine (I OM ) into the new National Academy of Medicine. The NAM addresses health issues of critical importance; advances science and addresses medical, social, and ethical aspects of scientific advancements in health; and inspires the nation and the globe to coalesce around a shared priority and audacious goal to advance health. During his tenure, Dr. Dzau has designed and led important initiatives such as the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, Roadmap for Healthy Longevity, the International Human Gene Editing Initiative; Vital Directions for Health and Health Care; Confronting the Opioid Crisis and the Grand Challenge in Climate Change and Human Health.
Dr. Dzau is active in Global Health. He launched the Duke Institute of Global Health and Duke NUS Graduate School of Medicine Singapore, founded the Division of Global Health Equity at Harvard Brigham Women’s Hospital (headed by Paul Farmer) and chairs the International Advisory Board of McGill’s School of Population and Global Health (led by Tim Evans). He serves on the board of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), is a Principal of the Global Access to COVID Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator), was on the board of Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation (CEPI) and is on the board of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). He served on the Board of Health Governors of the World Economic Forum and chaired its Global Futures Council on Healthy Longevity and Human Enhancement. Dr. Dzau is co-chair of the Healthy Brain Global Initiative. He has launched important initiatives such as the Global Health Risk Framework (2016), the Global Health and the Future Role of the US (2017), Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience (2017); Crossing the Global Quality Chasm (2018) and the Global Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity (2019). Three universities ( McGill, Harvard Brigham, and Duke) have established Global Health Lectureships in his name.
Dr. Dzau has served on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director and as Chair of the NIH Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee. He chairs the Steering Committee of the NIH Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium. He serves on the board of Imperial College Health Partners of UK, Health and Biomedical Sciences Council of Singapore, Chairs International Science Advisory Committee of the Qatar Precision Medicine Institute, Chairs the Scientific Boards of the Peter Munk Cardiac Center of University of Toronto and Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences of University of Glasgow.
Among his many honors and recognitions are the Gustav Nylin Medal from the Swedish Royal College of Medicine, the Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Poulzer Prize of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Henry Freisen International Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Sinica and European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was made an Honorary Citizen of Singapore, the highest honor conferred to an individual. He has received 16 honorary doctorates.
Jean-Claude Trichet
Panel Member
European Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Former President, European Central Bank
Honorary Governor of the Banque de France
Jean-Claude Trichet is presently European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
Jean-Claude Trichet is a member of the "Institut de France" (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques). He is honorary chairman of the Bruegel Institute (Brussels) and honorary chairman of the Group of Thirty (Washington). He was a member of the Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance (EPG), set up in 2017 by the G20.
Jean-Claude Trichet was President of the European Central Bank (2003-2011). He was Governor of Banque de France (1993-2003) and Undersecretary of the French Treasury (1987-1993). He was President of the Paris Club (debt rescheduling) (1985-1993), President of the European Monetary Committee (1992-1993), President of the Group of 10 Central Banks Governors and President of the Global economy meeting in Basel (2002-2011). He was President of Sogepa (Société de Gestion des Participations Aéronautiques) (2012-2013) and Director of Airbus Group (2012-2018). He was named “Person of the Year” by the Financial Times in 2007 and n° 5 of the “World Most Powerful” in the Newsweek list (2008).
Born in Lyon in 1942, Jean-Claude Trichet is an honorary inspecteur général des Finances and ingénieur civil des Mines. He is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, of the Université de Paris (in economics) and of the École Nationale d’Administration. Jean-Claude Trichet has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities.
Ngaire Woods
Panel Member
Dean, Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford
Ngaire Woods
Panel Member
Dean, Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford
Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of globalization, global development, and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. She founded the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University and co-founded (with Robert O. Keohane) the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She led the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government.
Ngaire Woods serves as a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s International Advisory Panel and on the Boards of the Mo Ibra him Foundation and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Rio Tinto (effective September 2020). She sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Global Development, the African Leadership Institute, the School of Management and Public Policy at Tsinghua University, and the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Cape Town University. She is Chair of the Harvard University Visiting Committee on International Engagement and a member of the Department for International Trade’s Trade and Economy Panel. She is also an honorary governor of the Ditchley Foundation and is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Frontier Risks.
Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director on the Arup Global Group Board and on the Board of the Center for International Governance Innovation. From 2016-2018, she was Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Values, Technology and Governance. She has also served as a member of the IMF European Regional Advisory Group, and as an Advisor to the IMF Board, to the Government of Oman’s Vision 2040, to the African Development Bank, to the UNDP’s Human Development Report, and to the Commonwealth Heads of Government.
Ngaire Woods has published extensively on international institutions, the global economy, globalization, and governance, including the following books: The Politics of Global Regulation (with Walter Mattli, Oxford University Press, 2009), Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Oxford University Press, 2009), The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers (Cornell University Press, 2006), Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Program (with Jennifer Welsh, Laurier University Press, 2007), and Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (with Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007). She has previously published The Political Economy of Globalization (Macmillan , 2000), Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (with Andrew Hurrell: Oxford University Press, 1999), Explaining International Relations since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1986). She has published numerous articles on international institutions, globalization, and governance. She has also presented numerous documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and BBC TV2.
She was educated at Auckland University (BA in economics, LLB Hons in law). She studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, completing an MPhil (with Distinction) and then DPhil (in 1992) in International Relations. She won a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford (1990-1992) and subsequently taught at Harvard University (Government Department) before taking up her Fellowship at University College, Oxford and academic roles at Oxford University.
Ngaire Woods was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year's Honours for services to Higher Education and Public Policy. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Min Zhu
Panel Member
Head of National Financial Research Institute, Tsinghua University
Former Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Min Zhu
Panel Member
Head of National Financial Research Institute, Tsinghua University
Former Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Dr. Min Zhu is currently the Chairman of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua university, Vice Chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges, Sino-UK Professional and Financial Service Envoy for the Belt and Road Initiative. He is a member of the "14th Five-Year Plan" Expert Committee, a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the State Internet Information Office, a commissioner of Lancet Global COVID-19 Commission. He is also a Board Trustee of Fudan University, World Economic Forum, and Peterson Institute for International Economics. Dr. Zhu was a Deputy Managing Director at IMF from July 2011 to July 2016. Before that, Dr. Zhu was a Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China, and prior to his service at China’s Central Bank, he served as a Group Executive Vice President of the Bank of China. Dr. Zhu also worked at the World Bank and taught economics at both Johns Hopkins University and Fudan University.
Dr. Zhu received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public International Affairs at Princeton University, and a B.A. in economics from Fudan University. He was a Board Trustee of Princeton University and International Council Member of Booth School of Chicago University. Dr. Zhu was awarded Distinguish Alumnus of Fudan University and Johns Hopkins University. He was also awarded China Economic Leader in 2014, Global Influential Chinese in 2015, CFV-10 year Global Financial Leader in 2016, and China Scholar of the year in 2018. In 2019, D r. Zhu was shortlisted in the list of 40 returnees in the 40 years of China's reform and opening up and the list of 70 returnees in the 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Masood Ahmed
Project Director & Panel Member
President, Center for Global Development
Masood Ahmed
Project Director & Panel Member
President, Center for Global Development
Masood Ahmed is president of the Center for Global Development. He joined the Center in January 2017, capping a 35-year career driving economic development policy initiatives relating to debt, aid effectiveness, trade, and global economic prospects at major international institutions including the IMF, World Bank, and DFID.
Ahmed joined CGD from the IMF, where he served for eight years as director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, earning praise from Managing Director Christine Lagarde as a “visionary leader.” In that role, he oversaw the Fund's operations in 32 countries and managed relationships with key national and regional policymakers and stakeholders. In previous years, he also served as the IMF's director of external relations, and deputy director of the Policy Development and Review Department.
From 2003-2006, Ahmed served as director-general, Policy, and International at the UK government department for International Development (DFID). In that role, he was responsible for advising UK ministers on development issues and overseeing the UK's relationship with international development institutions such as the World Bank.
Ahmed also worked at the World Bank from 1979-2000 in various managerial and economist positions, rising to become Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management. In that role, he led the HIPC (heavily indebted poor countries) debt relief initiative, which has to date brought relief from debt burdens to 36 of the world's poorest nations.
Born and raised in Pakistan, Ahmed moved to London in 1971 to study at the LSE where he obtained a BSc Honors as well as an MSc Econ with distinction. He is a UK national.
Ahmed is a leading expert on Middle East economics, having served on the Advisory Board of the LSEMiddle East Center, as well as on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Middle East and North Africa.
Guntram Wolff
Project Director & Panel Member
Director, Bruegel
Guntram Wolff
Project Director & Panel Member
Director, Bruegel
Guntram Wolff is the Director of Bruegel. His research focuses on the European economy and governance, fiscal and monetary policy, and global finance. He regularly testifies at the European Finance Ministers' ECOFIN meeting, the European Parliament, the German Parliament (Bundestag) and the French Parliament (Assemblée Nationale). From 2012-16, he was a member of the French prime minister's Conseil d'Analyse Economique. Guntram Wolff is also a member of the Solvay Brussels School's international advisory board of the Brussels Free University. He joined Bruegel from the European Commission, where he worked on the macroeconomics of the euro area and the reform of euro-area governance. Prior to joining the Commission, he was coordinating the research team on fiscal policy at Deutsche Bundesbank. He also worked as an adviser to the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, studied economics in Bonn, Toulouse, Pittsburgh, and Passau, and previously taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh and at Université libre de Bruxelles. He has published numerous papers in leading academic journals. Guntram is fluent in German, English, French and has good notions of Bulgarian and Spanish. His columns and policy work are published and cited in leading international media such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Caixin, Nikkei, El Pais, La Stampa, FAZ, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, BBC, ZDF, and others.
Victor J. Dzau
Panel Advisor, HLIP
President, National Academy of Medicine
Victor J. Dzau
Panel Advisor, HLIP
President, National Academy of Medicine
Victor J. Dzau is the President of the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM). In addition, he serves as Vice-Chair of the US National Research Council. He is Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dr. Dzau was the Hersey Professor of Medicine and Chairman of Medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as Bloomfield Professor and Chairman of Medicine at Stanford University.
He is an internationally acclaimed leader and physician-scientist who has made a significant impact through his seminal research in cardiovascular medicine and genetics. His research laid the foundation for the development of the class of lifesaving drugs known as ACE inhibitors, used globally to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. He pioneered gene therapy for vascular disease and was the first to introduce DNA decoy molecules to block transcription as gene therapy in humen. His pioneering research in cardiovascular regeneration led to the Paracrine Hypothesis of stem cell action and the therapeutic strategy of direct cardiac reprogramming.
In his role as a leader in health, Dr. Dzau has led efforts in innovation to improve health. 5 years ago, he led the reorganization of the Institute of Medicine (I OM ) into the new National Academy of Medicine. The NAM addresses health issues of critical importance; advances science and addresses medical, social, and ethical aspects of scientific advancements in health; and inspires the nation and the globe to coalesce around a shared priority and audacious goal to advance health. During his tenure, Dr. Dzau has designed and led important initiatives such as the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, Roadmap for Healthy Longevity, the International Human Gene Editing Initiative; Vital Directions for Health and Health Care; Confronting the Opioid Crisis and the Grand Challenge in Climate Change and Human Health.
Dr. Dzau is active in Global Health. He launched the Duke Institute of Global Health and Duke NUS Graduate School of Medicine Singapore, founded the Division of Global Health Equity at Harvard Brigham Women’s Hospital (headed by Paul Farmer) and chairs the International Advisory Board of McGill’s School of Population and Global Health (led by Tim Evans). He serves on the board of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), is a Principal of the Global Access to COVID Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator), was on the board of Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation (CEPI) and is on the board of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). He served on the Board of Health Governors of the World Economic Forum and chaired its Global Futures Council on Healthy Longevity and Human Enhancement. Dr. Dzau is co-chair of the Healthy Brain Global Initiative. He has launched important initiatives such as the Global Health Risk Framework (2016), the Global Health and the Future Role of the US (2017), Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience (2017); Crossing the Global Quality Chasm (2018) and the Global Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity (2019). Three universities ( McGill, Harvard Brigham, and Duke) have established Global Health Lectureships in his name.
Dr. Dzau has served on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director and as Chair of the NIH Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee. He chairs the Steering Committee of the NIH Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium. He serves on the board of Imperial College Health Partners of UK, Health and Biomedical Sciences Council of Singapore, Chairs International Science Advisory Committee of the Qatar Precision Medicine Institute, Chairs the Scientific Boards of the Peter Munk Cardiac Center of University of Toronto and Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences of University of Glasgow.
Among his many honors and recognitions are the Gustav Nylin Medal from the Swedish Royal College of Medicine, the Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Poulzer Prize of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Henry Freisen International Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Sinica and European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was made an Honorary Citizen of Singapore, the highest honor conferred to an individual. He has received 16 honorary doctorates.
Jeremy Farrar
Panel Advisor, HLIP
Director, Wellcome Trust
Rebeca Grynspan
Panel Member
Secretary General, Ibero-American General Secretariat
Former UN Under-Secretary General and Associate Administrator, UNDP
Former Vice-President of Costa Rica
Rebeca Grynspan, Ibero-American Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan was born in San José, Costa Rica. She was unanimously elected as Ibero-American Secretary-General at the Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs held in Ciudad de Mexico, on 24th February 2014. She took office on 1st April 2014 and in 2018 her mandate was renewed for a further four-year term.
In 2010 she was named Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). From 2006 to 2010, she was UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Prior to joining the United Nations, Ms. Grynspan served as Vice-President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. She was also Minister of Housing, Minister Coordinator of Economic and Social Affairs, and Deputy Minister of Finance. In addition, she has been a member of the High-Level Panel on Financing for Development, convened by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2001.
She is a renowned advocate of human development, who has helped to focus the world's attention, and also that of Latin America, on relevant issues such as the reduction of inequality and poverty, gender equality, South-South cooperation as a tool for development, and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among others.
She was also a delegate to the United Nations Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti, a group consisting of the Haitian government, the former President of the United States Bill Clinton, and other prominent international partners.
In June 2014 she was appointed as chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), one of the most influential organisations worldwide in the field of policy research, devoted to the study of the interface between development and the environment.
Ms. Grynspan is a member of the steering committee of the UNICEF Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement; member of the Governing Council of the Society for International Development (SID), a global network of individuals and professionals at the forefront of development; member of the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work; member of the Advisory Board of the Expansión International Economic Forum 2021 and is member of the G20 High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, among others.
In addition to her experience as a conference lecturer and advisor to a number of international organisations and institutions, she has been actively involved in key United Nations initiatives, such as the Millennium Project's Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development and the High-level Panel on Financing for Development.
In 2014 and 2015, she was recognized as one of the 50 leading intellectuals of Latin America. Since 2016 she serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI), which forms part of the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. In 2017 she received the Forbes Award for Excellence and the Spanish government awarded her the Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de Alfonso X El Sabio and in 2020 received the Aquí Europa-Vocento award as a Latin American personality which has done the most for the EU-Latin America construction.
Forbes magazine has chosen her in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the 100 most powerful women in Central America.
In 2020 she received the Gumersindo de Azcarate Award and the Woman of the Year Award from the Women in a Legal World Association.
Ms. Grynspan holds a degree in Economics by the University of Costa Rica and an MSc in Economics by the University of Sussex. She has been awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Salamanca, the University of Extremadura and the European University of Madrid in recognition of her professional career.
Lawrence Summers
Panel Co-Chair
Charles W. Eliot University Professor Harvard Kennedy School,
Former United States Treasury Secretary
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers is one of America’s leading economists. In addition to serving as 71st Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Dr. Summers served as Director of the White House National Economic Council in the Obama Administration, as President of Harvard University, and as the Chief Economist of the World Bank. Dr. Summers’ tenure at the U.S. Treasury coincided with the longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. history. He is the only Treasury Secretary in the last half-century to have left office with the national budget in surplus. Dr. Summers has played a key role in addressing every major financial crisis for the last two decades. During the 1990s, he was a leader in crafting the U.S. response to international financial crises arising in Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Japan, and Asian emerging markets. As one of President Obama’s chief economic advisors, Dr. Summers’ thinking helped shape the U.S. response to the 2008 financial crisis, to the failure of the automobile industry, and to the pressures on the European monetary system. Upon Summers’ departure from the White House, President Obama said, “I will always be grateful that at a time of great peril for our country, a man of Larry’s brilliance, experience and judgment was willing to answer the call and lead our economic team.” The Economist recognized his influence when it defined the “Summers Doctrine,” an approach to economic policy during financial crises that fuses a microeconomic “laissez-faire” mentality with macroeconomic activism. “Markets should allocate capital, labour and ideas without interference, but sometimes markets go haywire, and must be counteracted forcefully by government.” Summers’ five years as President of Harvard represented a time of major innovation for the University. He focused on equality of opportunity and removing all financial obligation from students with family incomes below $60,000 a year. He launched a major effort to make Boston, and Cambridge in particular, the global leader in life sciences research, with the formation of major programs for stem cell research and genomics. Perhaps most importantly, he led efforts to renew Harvard College with dramatic increases in study abroad programs, faculty-student contact, and collaboration across the University during his tenure. Currently, Dr. Summers is the President Emeritus and the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, where he became a full professor at age 28, one of the youngest in Harvard’s recent history. He directs the University’s Mossavar - Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Summers was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation n’s Alan Waterman Award for scientific achievement and, in 1993, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the most outstanding economist under 40 in the United States. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. He has published more than 150 papers in scholarly journals. Summers is an advisor to businesses and investors. He serves on the board of Square and Premise. He chairs the board of the Center for Global Development and serves on the board of ONE. He is an advisor to The Hamilton Project, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and recently co-chaired the Commission on Inclusive Prosperity. He recently launched a Task Force on Fiscal Policy with Mayor Bloomberg and chaired the Commission on Global Health, lauded by the UN Secretary-General who noted that it “will bring more than health – it will bring equity, and contribute to a life of dignity for all.” President Bill Clinton said that Larry Summers “has the rare ability to see the world that is taking shape and the skill to help to bring it into being.” He has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential thinkers by Time, Foreign Policy, Prospect and The Economist magazines among many others. In his speeches, regular newspaper columns in The Washington Post and public commentary, he continues to move forward the debate on national and global economic policy.
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International Donors Set 7 Nations on Education Fast-Track
Representatives of the international donor community agreed recently in Brussels to help seven developing countries in Africa and Latin America make their education plans a reality. Work is now proceeding to build the required capacity and to close a finance gap, estimated at US$400 million over the next three years.
The agreement under the Education For All Fast Track Initiative is designed to ensure that developing countries reach the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal: to provide every girl and boy with a complete primary school education by 2015.
The seven countries — Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Mauritania, Nicaragua and Niger — are the first group of developing countries to benefit from the initiative, launched in June 2002. A further five high-population countries — India, Pakistan, DR Congo, Nigeria and Bangladesh — were also invited to carry out additional policy work so they can join the initiative in the future.
— This Day (Lagos)
Dec. 2, 2002
Angola
Construction Begins on University Expansion
Construction for the first stage of the Luanda campus of Agostinho Neto University started recently just south of the capital in the district of Kilamba Kiaxi.
The first stage will see the construction of four departments: chemistry, physics, mathematics and information technology. Construction of a central library will also be included in this first stage.
Construction of the first stage is expected to be completed by the end of 2004. The new campus will increase the state-run university’s student body from 8,000 to 17,000. The whole project should be finished in five years and will ultimately include nine new departments, the construction of a 350-bed hospital, a secondary school, a geology museum and accommodation for up to 5,100 students.
— Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
Jan. 21, 2003
Ghana
Kofi Annan University to be Established
The United Nations Association of Ghana is to establish a university in the Greater Accra Region to be named after Ghana’s favorite son, U.N. Secretary-General Dr. Kofi Annan.
The university will follow Annan’s example by training students in conflict resolution and peace-keeping operations, among other programs.
— Ghanaian Chronicle
Jan. 16, 2003
Kenya
New President Pledges Free Primary Education for All
The Kenya National Union of Teachers has pledged to support newly elected President Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki won a landslide victory on a platform promising free primary-school education for all and improved human rights. Sworn in Dec. 30, he promised to rebuild a country brought to its knees by decades of corrupt rule by Daniel arap Moi.
The National Union of Teachers, Kenya’s largest teacher’s union, offered to support and assist the government’s policy of free education on the understanding that Kibaki remains true to his campaign promises, elects a new and competent national staff and implements a promised 1997 pay increase that the previous administration had stalled for years. The union secretary-general, Francis Nganga, stressed that “political sycophants should no longer be made to head such a crucial ministry.”
George Saitoti has been appointed the new minister of education. He said recently that parents would have to pay for school uniforms, but the government would handle other expenses, including textbooks. He warned that school officials would face unspecified sanctions should any students be turned away.
The start of the new academic term Jan. 7 saw the fulfillment of Kibaki’s promise as students returning from vacation to the country’s 17,000 primary schools found that fees had indeed been abolished. But students also found overflowing classrooms in some parts of the country as many parents who could previously not afford school tuition took advantage of the new laws. Enrollment at public schools in the last year of Moi’s rule was 85 percent, down from 95 percent in 1990; levies had excluded an estimated 3 million children from school.
Conservative estimates put the cost of implementing free primary school education at Sh5 billion (US$65 million). Kibaki’s government is confident it will be able to meet the costs, saying the previous government was so corrupt and inefficient that by simply running Kenya honestly, sufficient funds would be available. The government has already released Sh519 million to be shared among primary schools nationwide. Furthermore, UNICEF has pledged US$2.5 million to programs promoting female child education and rehabilitation of street children. The United Nations and the Kenyan government have also signed an agreement under the U.N. Development Assistance Framework to enhance collaboration and cooperation of various funds, to be implemented from 2004-2008.
— East Africa Standard
January 2003 articles
Nigeria
Applications Flood Open University for First Term
Approximately 1.3 million prospective students have applied to National Open University for its first academic year, which begins the first quarter of 2003.
The university is a federal government program aimed at providing equal and adequate educational opportunities for all Nigerians. According to President Olusegun Obasanjo, the institution will only offer courses deemed most relevant to national development.
The university plans to use the Virtual Library Project, established in February 2002 by several of the country’s universities, to combat the problem of limited and outdated books.
Courses will be offered in information technology and computer science, agricultural science, business administration and management studies, engineering and building studies, education, science and technology, health sciences and legal studies, as well as vocational and continuing education studies.
— Business Day
Nov. 12, 2002
1,000 Students Accused of Degree Forgery
Authorities have discovered that about 1,000 final-year students at the University of Port Harcourt gained admission to the institution with fake West African Examination Council, certificates. Some staff at the institution are said to be at the center of the racket.
The fake certificates — mostly West African School Certificates and General Certificates of Education — were uncovered after the council made available the master list of exam results from the 1997-98 academic year.
— Newswatch
Dec. 15, 2002
Pankshin College of Education Re-Opens
The Pankshin College of Education, shut down for four months after violent student demonstrations, reopened to normal academic activities Nov. 27.
— This Day (Lagos)
Dec. 3, 2002
Unions Bring Universities to Standstill
There seems to be no end to the strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, now in its third month of protest. The university teachers are insisting they will not go back to work until the federal government implements the agreement it entered into on June 30, 2001.
The country’s tertiary institutions received another blow at the end of January, when the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, a union representing nonacademic staff, joined the strike, which it described as “total and indefinite” until all outstanding entitlements are paid.
Despite government attempts to force university employees back to work, no progress has been made. The academic calendar will likely be pushed even further back, and students longing for a return to the classroom will have to wait until the unions and the government can come to an agreement. Currently, there seems to be no guarantee that this will happen soon.
— Newswatch
Feb. 28, 2003
Private University Welcomes First Intake of Students
Covenant University opened its doors to its first 1,404 students in February. The university, based in Ota, Ogun state, with a satellite campus in Lagos, was issued an operating license from the Nigerian Universities Commission in February 2002.
The three colleges that make up the university – College of Business and Social Sciences, College of Human Development and College of Science and Technology – are offering 20 programs in six departments.
— Daily Trust
Feb. 4, 2003
South Africa
Mandela’s Alma Mater Gets New Lease of Life
The University of Fort Hare, where Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Chris Hani studied, was under threat of extinction barely two years ago.
In 2000, the South African government responded to falling enrollments by threatening the disappearance of Fort Hare as an independent institution. But a working party committee recommended a merger with Rhodes University, a former liberal white university. Now, in a remarkable change of fortunes, Fort Hare is moving from remote Alice in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces to East London, where it will take over the Rhodes East London campus. It is hoped the university will help regenerate East London, a major seaport and industrial city.
Concentrating mainly on the arts, with some science and in particular, agriculture, Fort Hare, like many formerly black universities, suffered a decline in student enrollment, to just 2,500. That number has risen dramatically to 7,200. The institution’s urban-centric programs, much better suited to a big-city setting, such as its MBA and other commercial programs will be moving from Alice to East London.
— The Times Higher Education Supplement
Nov. 29, 2002
Medical Training to be Restructured
As of 2005, medical students in South Africa will undergo a minimum of five years of medical training, followed by a two-year internship.
The current curriculum provides six years of academic training and a one-year internship. The rationale behind the curriculum change is that the current system is too theoretical and interns do not gain all exit competencies for service delivery.
— BuaNews
Dec. 10, 2002
Merger Creates Durban Institute of Technology
A merger of M. L. Sultan Technikon and Natal Technikon on April 1 created the Durban Institute for Technology. Setting a precedent, the institute is the first merged institution of higher education in South Africa.
For a complete listing of proposed institutional mergers and closures, as laid out by the National Working Group in February 2002, please visit HERE.
— Study South Africa
New Grading, Exam Await Students
Starting this year, ninth-graders can expect to take a new exam to attain the General Education and Training Certificate (GETC).
The certificate marks the conclusion of the “general band” of school education and serves as an entry point into the “Further Education and Training” band, which students can either follow at school or at a further education and training college, which used to be called a technical college.
It was due to be implemented countrywide last year, but was postponed for a year after some provinces said they were not ready yet.
The GETC exchanges sit-down written exams for a mix of different tasks, group work and other exercises that are monitored and marked throughout the year. The “grade” pupils receive will no longer be dependent on an end-of-year exam, as in the past, but in their performance throughout the year, in addition to an exam set by a national committee. That grade will be between one and four, with four being the highest.
The new exam will be conducted at the end of the school year, pending approval from the nine heads of provincial education in March.
— Cape Argus (Cape Town)
Jan. 28, 2003
Uganda
Nkozi University Opens Kabale Branch
Nkozi University has opened a branch campus in the Kabale district. The university offers distance-learning degree courses in primary education and a diploma in advanced educational management.
The branch opened with 105 students and intends to offer more courses in the future.
— The Monitor
Dec. 23, 2002
Millennium Institute to Upgrade
The Millennium Institute of Science and Information Technology is to become a university this year. It will be the first private university in Uganda to offer classes in computer science and information technology.
— The Monitor
Dec. 24, 2002
Zambia
Lecturers Threaten Strike
Academics at the University of Zambia are preparing to go on strike to improve pay and conditions. The protest, set for Feb. 17, could paralyze the university unless lecturers’ demands for a 100 percent pay increase, payment of a backlog of benefits and a package of basic perks are met.
Lecturers claim they are the most poorly paid in southern Africa and state that it is no surprise that the university lost more than 300 staff between 1999 and 2001. Most left for the Zambian private sector, the United States, South Africa or Botswana, making the brain drain in Zambia a national concern.
The University of Zambia is often beset by strikes owing to late payment of salaries and nonpayment of benefits, which typically extend the length of time students take to complete a degree from four years to six.
— The Times of Zambia
Nov. 29, 2002
Strike Goes Ahead
University of Zambia lecturers went on strike Feb. 17 and remained on strike after inconclusive talks with the Government March 3.
The university was officially closed March 8 and students were asked to go home until an agreement between the government and the union could be worked out.
University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union President Trywell Kalusopa said the strike would continue until all arrears are paid.
— The Times of Zambia
March 10, 2003
Zimbabwe
Examinations Delayed
A monthlong strike by lecturers postponed end-of-year examinations at the National University of Science and Technology until January.
Examinations should have started Dec. 2. However, lecturers went on strike Oct. 30 and ended the protest Nov. 22. According to the teachers union, lecturers went back to work on condition that salary negotiations for 2003 continued.
Union officials are confident of reaching an agreement with the government, as more and more qualified academics leave the country for better paying positions abroad, leaving the nation’s universities manned by part-time lecturers and expatriates.
— The Daily News (Harare)
Nov. 28, 2002
University Opening Delayed by Strike
The University of Zimbabwe failed to open for the 2003 academic year when nearly 600 lecturers went on an indefinite strike Feb. 21. The teachers are demanding a 50 percent retention allowance on their basic salaries.
Students, who were due to start their semester Feb. 24, have been loitering on campus, unsure whether they will be able to sit their already-delayed exams.
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