The death of Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United States, threw Ghanaian into a state of shock and profound sorrow. No one was expecting it.
Annan, whose country of origin is Ghana, died at 80 in retirement in faraway Switzerland, where he ran his Kofi Annan Foundation. The Ghanaian government is observing 7 days of mourning.
The former UN top diplomat is regarded here as a ‘guiding face for good,’ One commentator described Annan as ‘slow in speech quick in thought and deep in wisdom – the man whose speech alone was enough to end wars’.
An other said it was a loss that would “never be replaced till kingdom come”.
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