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==Early life== Kojo Annan was born in [[Geneva]], Switzerland, on 25 July 1973.<ref>{{cite web|last=Turner |first=Mark |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1/91150298-9fda-11d9-b355-00000e2511c8.html |title=How Kojo Annan left his father on the defensive |website=Financial Times |date=28 March 2005 |access-date=4 April 2016}}</ref> Kojo Annan and his sister Ama Annan are from Kofi Annan's first marriage with Titi Alakija, a Nigerian. The couple separated when Kojo Annan was six years old and divorced two years later. After his parents separated, he lived with his father and spent holidays with his mother and sister. Kojo Annan's second name "Adeyemo" means "the crown befits the child" in [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onlinenigeria.com/nigeriannames/ad.asp?blurb=2890|website=Online Nigeria: Nigerian Names and Meanings|title=Adeyemo|access-date=5 November 2014}}</ref> Kojo Annan is a maternal grandson of Sir [[Adeyemo Alakija]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcS_BAAAQBAJ&q=adeyemo+alakija+titi+alakija&pg=PT243|title=Lagos: A Cultural and Literary History|access-date=14 November 2014|date=21 October 2013|author=Kaye Whiteman|isbn=978-190-84-9389-7|publisher=Andrews UK}}</ref> Kojo Annan was educated in Wales at the independent [[Rydal Preparatory School]], and in England, at [[Rendcomb College]], where he excelled as a rugby player<ref name="Guardian">MacAskill, Ewen, [https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,3604,1447711,00.html "English public schoolboy turned businessman who 'disappointed' his father"], ''The Guardian'', 30 March 2005</ref> and subsequently at [[Keele University]]. He was also educated in Switzerland.<ref name="Guardian" />
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