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Want to contribute? Help edit Kofi Annan, Wikipedia's article of the week! Please help to try and improve it to featured article standard.

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Annan was born to Henry Reginald and Victoria Annan on April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Ghana.[...] [He started] his first term as Secretary-General [of the United Nations] on January 1, 1997. Annan replaced outgoing Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, becoming the first person of a black African nation to become Secretary-General.

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Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects.
Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary.
Wikinews – News stories written by readers.
Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books.
Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource – A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies – A directory of species.
Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide.
Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and
edited by humans and machines alike.
Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.