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Remembering an African scholar-diplomat


Five years ago, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, one of Africa’s foremost scholar-diplomats, died in Cairo. He served as the sixth United Nations (UN) Secretary-General between 1992 and 1997, helping to build the foundations of the post-Cold War security architecture. By 1994, the world body had deployed 75,000 peacekeepers to 17 trouble spots, compared to 13 in the previous four decades. Despite being the most intellectually accomplished of the eight UN Secretaries-General – and the first African and Arab in the post – no biography currently exists in English on the Egyptian.
 
Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo on 14 November 1922. He attended the French secondary school in the Egyptian capital, living in the family mansion.  He often visited Tahrir Square in his youth, and embraced Egypt’s rich heritage, frequently touting the 1,000-year Al-Azhar theological university and ancient Pharaonic civilisations.  The Cairo in which Boutros grew up was not dissimilar to many of ....

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