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Secretary-General to speak at Georgetown conference on his legacy in Africa

27 October 2006
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be guest speaker at Georgetown University on Monday when he is expected to explain how “Africa is in a defining struggle for its destiny” and needs the international community’s assistance, said his spokesman today.
Professor Chinua Achebe

Annan hosts Nigerian novelist Achebe and others at UN forum on language

28 March 2006
Language has the power to connect people or divide them, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today introducing the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe and the Irish poet Paul Muldoon to speak on “The Use of Language in War and Peace,” as part of Mr. Annan’s lecture series at United Nations Headquarters in New York.