Ewe Language newspaper launched

Ho, May 21, GNA- Mrs. Woyram Boakye-Danquah, District Chief Executive for South-Dayi has called on Ewe parents to encourage their children to learn and speak the language wherever they found themselves. Mrs. Boakye-Danquah made the call at the launch of an Ewe language newspaper, ""Nutifafa" in Ho on Sunday.

Previous Ewe language newspapers were "Mortabiala and "Kpodoga". Mrs. Boakye-Danquah observed that many Ewe children who live outside the Volta Region became aliens when they visit home because they could not communicate with their kith and kin in their mother tongue. She said it was important that children born to Ewe parents are able to speak other Ghanaian languages, but it was regrettable that they were doing so at the neglect of their mother tongue.

"My husband is an Akan but my children speak Ewe", she said. Mrs. Boakye-Danquah asked the publishers to let the paper reflect all shades of interest in order to make it national in character. Mamaga Kofi Bra the first, Paramount Queen mother of the Peki traditional area who chaired the launching ceremony was optimistic that "Nutifafa" would attract a mass patronage.

She said the newspaper represented a bold initiative by Mrs. Esther Malwine Edu-Yao, its Publisher and Editor and reflects the growing influence of women to assert themselves in every sector of the country. Mrs. Edu-Yao said she decided to publish the paper to make news and vital information available to many people who were not literate in the English language but could read and write in Ewe. She said there are great potentials for Ewe newspapers in the country, because of the presence of Ewes in all parts of the country and across West Africa.

The tabloid size quarterly featured stories mainly on religious and social issues with a cover price of five thousand cedis. 21 May 07