Kofi Annan

Born, 1938 in Ghana

The Pan-Africanists is a book celebrating “the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world. Inspired by the “Pan-Africanists” portfolio, a series of oil paintings by artist Barrington Watson, the authors present the reader with succinct biographies of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Dubois (sic), Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyata, Haile Selassie, Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela.”

The book included a Foreword written by Kofi A. Annan, the then Secretary-General of the United Nations (2000).

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Book relating to a publication, 2000