ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Afro-Arab prophet, pharaoh and pope
18 September 2022 - 16:18
Egyptian scholar-diplomat Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who died in February 2016 as the first African and first Arab UN secretary-general 30 years ago is portrayed in my new short biography, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as a prophet, pharaoh and pope.
The widely published Egyptian was a renowned professor of international law and international relations at the University of Cairo for 28 years, making him the most intellectually accomplished of the nine UN secretaries-general...
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