The president of Ohio University, Professor Roderick MacDavis has announced that Ewe will be studied as a course in Ohio University in the United States of America (USA) from the 2011/2012 academic year. Professor MacDavis announced this when he led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on the Volta Regional Minister in his office in Ho.

The delegation was in the country to visit Ohio University students studying in Ghana and also to explore possibilities to set up a satellite programme for child development using the arts. According to Professor MacDavis, his institute has developed a lot of programmes for children which lay emphasis on child education through the use Arts.

He said the University has an open door policy to students all over the world who have a desire to study and urged a lot more students from Ghana to take part. He also announced their intention to set up an institute of Music and Development studies in Ghana.

The Volta Regional Minister, Mr. Joseph Amenowode expressed satisfaction with the collaboration between the Volta Region and Ohio University. He said “child education is very important and I’m very happy that the Ohio University has come up with a programme to educate children using arts”

Mr. Amenowode described the visit as a “divine intervention” and said that he was looking forward to fruitful and mutually beneficial collaboration between Ohio University and the University of Health and Allied Sciences in the Volta Region which he said would take off soon.

Other members of the delegation included Professor Komla Amoaku of the Institute of Music and Development, Mama Agblatsu and Togbe Adzimah of the Asogli Tradional Area and Professor Yao Younge, an indigene of the region.