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"Anna is fluent in English, French, Kru, other dialects of Akan, and other African languages." I'm not one to usually find racism in every nook and cranny of a sentence. But doesn't it seem a little wrong to write off his liguistic abilities with the phrase "African languages" instead of explicitly stating what those languages are? To say French is more important that Wolof or Zulu is a little imperialistic. Can somebody find out what the actual "african languages" he speaks are. Especially since he is an African and neither English or French are native to the continent and are of thus relatively low importance (and yes, I am aware that the working languages of the UN are French and English. Im refering to this all in a 'Kofi is a man from Africa' not 'Kofi ran the UN' sense)

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Do we know what the time of replacement, do we have any link, sources from that day? .User_talk: BoxingWear

Kofi Annan a muslim?

I removed the sentence "He was the first muslim UN-secretary general", added 12 July 2018‎ by an un-registered user, and lacking any source. According to Google Answer, he is a protestant Christian. / Ternarius (talk) 14:49, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 18 August 2018

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In the third paragraph under Early years and Education, please, change " the Gold Coast gained independence from the UK and began using the name "Ghana" to " the Gold Coast reclaimed its independence from the UK and changed its name to "Ghana".

Thank you 70.30.34.154 (talk) 13:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It has been protected by Ymblanter. Already happened. Thanks! Source Content Self-Maker (talk) 13:49, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done No supporting reference has been provided for the change 86.145.213.3 (talk) 12:17, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cause of death

needs clarification. Once it is clear. the recent death template should be removed from this page. --DBig Xray 14:08, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia NEWS Headlines

Why his death is not news headlines? who responsible? why indian PM but not Annan? please explain to the world — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.151.48.143 (talk) 15:56, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You may read this "discussion"... Not enough editors who like him enough to do some basic work on the article. Wakari07 (talk) 01:43, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Or even to point out specific concerns on this talk page. Not even a "recent deaths" mention. Unbelievable. 108.34.206.74 (talk) 10:02, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please delete the word "written" and the comma before it, in this section. Can you also change the "Peguin Press" link to read Penguin Press. Editrite! 203.196.41.161 (talk) 22:24, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, thank you. Wakari07 (talk) 10:51, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 == Semi-protected edit request on 18 August 2018 ==
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+{{edit semi-protected|Kofi Annan|answered=yes}}
 In the third paragraph under Early years and Education, please, change " the Gold Coast gained independence from the UK and began using the name "Ghana"
 to " the Gold Coast reclaimed its independence from the UK and changed its name to "Ghana".
 Thank you [[Special:Contributions/70.30.34.154|70.30.34.154]] ([[User talk:70.30.34.154|talk]]) 13:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
-::It has been protected by Ymblanter. Already happened. Thanks! [[User:Web SourceContent|Source Content Self-Maker]] ([[User talk:Web SourceContent|talk]]) 13:49, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
+:It has been protected by Ymblanter. Already happened. Thanks! [[User:Web SourceContent|Source Content Self-Maker]] ([[User talk:Web SourceContent|talk]]) 13:49, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
+:{{not done}} No supporting reference has been provided for the change [[Special:Contributions/86.145.213.3|86.145.213.3]] ([[User talk:86.145.213.3|talk]]) 12:17, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 == Cause of death ==