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Dag Hammarskjold
By Chay Bowes
Dag Hammarskjold was the second ever, and some say the greatest, Secretary General of the UN. When he died sixty years ago this year, President John F Kennedy suggested that Hammarskjold had been “the greatest statesman of our century”. At 47 years of age on his appointment, Hammarskjold was the youngest ever secretary-general of the United Nations and one of only two people to ever be awarded the Nobel prize posthumously.
Are his life, innovations and untimely death relevant in 2021?
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold was born in 1905 to a wealthy Swedish ‘noble’ family, the son of a future Swedish prime minister and politician Hjalmar Hammarskjold, who would serve during the first part of the first world war.
A United Kingdom (M, 111 mins) Directed by Amma Asante ★★★★½ With his university legal education almost complete, Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) knows its time to return home. Sent to Britain to learn how to rule his country, the Prince of Bechuanaland (what s now called Botswana) is now ready to assume his crown. But there s just one problem – he s fallen in love. London office worker Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) is certainly not what his currently ruling Uncle or tribe expected as the new mother of their nation. Even more aggrieved are the British government, who accuse the couple of flagrant disregard of the political climate . Surrounding African nations have already expressed their displeasure at the prospect of an inter-racial couple at the apex of Bechuanaland and South Africa with its newly minted Apartheid policy (this is 1948) is threatening to make life difficult for the Brits in Africa if they don t stop this outrage. Some even think the ma