During the award ceremony, a Lifetime Achievement Award was also presented posthumously to
Kofi Atta Annan in recognition of his service to humanity at the United Nations and his contributions to Africa.
The former UN Secretary-General,
Kofi Atta Annan, was laid to rest in his native Ghana after a state funeral attended by leaders from all over the world.
Five world de facto leaders - Donald Trump, Theresa May, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin - shocked Ghanaians and the African Continent as a whole yesterday, when they failed to turn up at the funeral of the late former United Nations Secretary General, Busumuru James
Kofi Atta Annan.
Minister for Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration, Mr Nonofo Molefhi is representing the Botswana government at today's state funeral of former UN Secretary General, Mr
Kofi Atta Annan in Accra, Ghana.
Kofi Atta Annan was born April 8, 1938, into an elite family in Kumasi, Ghana, the son of a provincial governor and grandson of two tribal chiefs.
The closing keynote address will be given by
Kofi Atta Annan (Former United Nations Secretary-General from 1997-2006 and Chairman, Kofi Annan Foundation) on 'The role of sport as an agent of social change', followed by a Q&A interview with Mr.
Kofi Atta Annan was born on 8 April, 1938 in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana.
Last month,
Kofi Atta Annan, one of the greatest sons of Africa and a global hero, was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Burma Camp after lying in state at the Accra international Convention Centre.
Kofi Atta Annan, a diplomat from the West African country of Ghana, was the first to emerge from the ranks of United Nations (UN) staff to serve as the Secretary-General of the UN.