... to celebrate with Ghana’s illustrious son and honor him for the service rendered to the world since taking up the seat as the United Nations
Service to the world – excluding Africa. I know, I know that he is only an international civil servant, but Kofi Annan commands more influence than most civil servants, and he can use his enormous influence with heads of governments to highlight issues.
I can't recollect what
exceptional thing, he did for Africa. We saw Kofi Anann in-action during the Israeli-Lebanon conflict, but not in Rwanda in his previous capacity at the UN. Further, the Darfur problem is still with us.
Kofi Anann shows that, it is an illusion–-particularly where Africans are concerned--to think that having your tribesman at the helm will improve your lot. The sad thing is that we are weakened because he is seen as one of our own and cannot, therefore, criticise him or call him names. If he were a non-African UN Secretary General, we would all be calling him names such as anti-Africa, pro-Islamic, western stooge and all that.
Ladies and Gentlemen, in retirement, await Kofi Anann, the 'champion of African causes', perhaps a 'Kofi Anann Foundation', but please don't buy such gimmickry.