Government to translate policies into 7 local languages – Hamid

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Kwame Twumasi-Fofie 7 years ago

On the face of it, it may sound like a good idea but I wonder how many Ghanaians are out there who can read their local languages better than English. It's a different thing though if the policies are going to be translated ...
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On the face of it, it may sound like a good idea but I wonder how many Ghanaians are out there who can read their local languages better than English. It's a different thing though if the policies are going to be translated and broadcast to them in those languages rather than in print. They are not going to read it!
AYITEY SANTANA 7 years ago

EWE SPEAKERS ARE NOT NECESSARILY EWE READERS. I SPEAK GA NATURALLY BUT CANNOT READ GA. A PROJECT ON VERBAL OR AUDIO TRANSLATION WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE: GOV'T TRANSLATES THE POLICIES AND INSTEAD OF PRINTING, THEY ARE BROADCAS ...
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EWE SPEAKERS ARE NOT NECESSARILY EWE READERS. I SPEAK GA NATURALLY BUT CANNOT READ GA. A PROJECT ON VERBAL OR AUDIO TRANSLATION WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE: GOV'T TRANSLATES THE POLICIES AND INSTEAD OF PRINTING, THEY ARE BROADCAST ON LOCAL RADIO STATIONS.
ELINAM 7 years ago

Time to relearn our mother tongue. Last Tuesday was the UNICEF"s International year for the Mother Tongue. All South East Nations (Malaysia Indonesia etc,ect,) have adopted it even though it was formulated in Addis Ababa, bu ...
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Time to relearn our mother tongue. Last Tuesday was the UNICEF"s International year for the Mother Tongue. All South East Nations (Malaysia Indonesia etc,ect,) have adopted it even though it was formulated in Addis Ababa, but France objected to it for her slaves in francophone Africa.
The research had proved that those who taught in their mother tongue retain it faster that in they would in a foreign language.
Malaysians have proved to be better learned that us, and that's a fact.
Time to revise how we learn and communicate.
An MP canvased for votes to do this and that for his/her people in say, Akatsi or Ejisu and communicated it in the local language and now the local people had visited parliament to see for themselves whether their representative the "honorable servant" is up to the tacks he/she was sent to do be alas, the locals could not comprehend him/her whether he/she is selling them or working on their behalf simply because the local "honorable servant" has morphed into an English man.
Local language needs to be taught in all subjects as we did in VR in the 1970s. We also had weekly newspaper. But all these were pulled out by those working for anti-African forces who spoke English like Ako.
NO WONDER WE BECAME MORE AND MORE IGNORANT AND BACKWARD.
Yes, the average Ghanaian is simply ignorant and backward whether a muslim, christian or traditionalist all because we stopped learning and comprehending nothing in English and have no alternative as we had 50 years ago.

My grandma who never being to the Europale man's class room learned more on the Nkrumah's GBC1 radio and would gather us around her favorite programs of health and agriculture.
COMPREHENSION IS VERY IMPORTANT.
My grandma was also the leader of her friends who would come and listen to her reading the EVWHEH BIBLA.
AYITEY SANTANA 7 years ago

BUT HE HATED THE AKYEM/ASHANTI LEADERS OF THE UGCC. I SUPPORT THE IDEA OF TEACHING FIRST IN THE NATIVE TONGUE. BUT THE ARGUMENT HERE IS NOT ABOUT THAT. HAMID CAN'T WASTE OUR SCANTY RESOURCES PRINTING DOCUMENTS MANY CAN'T READ ...
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BUT HE HATED THE AKYEM/ASHANTI LEADERS OF THE UGCC. I SUPPORT THE IDEA OF TEACHING FIRST IN THE NATIVE TONGUE. BUT THE ARGUMENT HERE IS NOT ABOUT THAT. HAMID CAN'T WASTE OUR SCANTY RESOURCES PRINTING DOCUMENTS MANY CAN'T READ. HE BETTER USE RADIO BROADCAST THAT COULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE & PROBABLY CHEAPER.
NANA 7 years ago

ANOTHER WAY TO LOOT GOVERNMENT MONEY. NPP MAKING ALL MEANS TO LOOT GHANA. THAT PROGRAM OFRIIJATO BRINGING WONT END NO WHERE U WAIT AND SEE. THAT IS NPP FOR GHANA.

ANOTHER WAY TO LOOT GOVERNMENT MONEY. NPP MAKING ALL MEANS TO LOOT GHANA. THAT PROGRAM OFRIIJATO BRINGING WONT END NO WHERE U WAIT AND SEE. THAT IS NPP FOR GHANA.
Yaw 7 years ago

They are assuming that the people can fluently read in local languages. But that can't be accurate. So if the people can't read the local languages, what good is it to write the policies in local languages?

The resource ...
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They are assuming that the people can fluently read in local languages. But that can't be accurate. So if the people can't read the local languages, what good is it to write the policies in local languages?

The resources they will spend printing the policies should be spent on interpreting the policies in local languages, if the government so desires.
God bless ghana 7 years ago

Hournable minister,what the people need is implementation of those polices not translation.it is a waste of time and financial resources to embark fruitless agenda.the people are crying for development not translation.

Hournable minister,what the people need is implementation of those polices not translation.it is a waste of time and financial resources to embark fruitless agenda.the people are crying for development not translation.
ELINAM 7 years ago

Can we stop for a minute to see why we're failing?
Can we stop for a minute to figure out why a "POST NO BILL" sign would be on a wall and still, posters of all kinds would still be posted on the wall?
Can we still stop for ...
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Can we stop for a minute to see why we're failing?
Can we stop for a minute to figure out why a "POST NO BILL" sign would be on a wall and still, posters of all kinds would still be posted on the wall?
Can we still stop for a second to figure out why we still urinate under a sign telling us in English "DO NOT URINATE HERE"?
And a gain, can we pause for another second to figure our what's really wrong with us when a sigh in English telling us "DO NOT LITTER" and still we see nothing wrong living like the filthy "pig" that we are and still walk thru all that filth to our churches?

RUNNING AWAY FROM TEACHING THE MOTHER TONGUE HAS CONSEQUENCES!!
Honourables 7 years ago

Very good start. It will force people to start learn to read their own language. It is about time. Ignore the naysayers. Positive move.Next, the newspapers, and then the textbooks.

Very good start. It will force people to start learn to read their own language. It is about time. Ignore the naysayers. Positive move.Next, the newspapers, and then the textbooks.
ELINAM 7 years ago

Mother Tongue or we go nowhere as the IGNORANCE in our dear nation is all time high.
MPs, lawyers, politicians, teachers and even medical doctors all proudly display it without knowing it.
If you stand up as a politician o ...
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Mother Tongue or we go nowhere as the IGNORANCE in our dear nation is all time high.
MPs, lawyers, politicians, teachers and even medical doctors all proudly display it without knowing it.
If you stand up as a politician or a Chief Justice and read in English at 3rd grade level, then no one can take you seriously, but if you stand up there and speak passionately and ELOQUENTLY in your local language on the subject matter, who in his right mind could say you do not know what you're talking about? Then we can say the Russian,Chinese and Iranians are totally uneducated and do not know what they're doing when they speak at the UN Assembly and should come to Ghana and be taught by our MPs and CJ.
OD 7 years ago

Mr. Minister don't waste the little resources we have now. There is no region in Ghana that don't understand twi or Akan so please don't waste time and resource.
Also for the sake of national intergration please let's use A ...
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Mr. Minister don't waste the little resources we have now. There is no region in Ghana that don't understand twi or Akan so please don't waste time and resource.
Also for the sake of national intergration please let's use Akan so that the nation can easily be unified.
In another sense, for the sake of national development let's use Akan only for development acceleration.
Folks let's bear with this
LA - STAR 7 years ago

I don't understand Akan, and besides it's a minor language on the world scene. English is the way to go, we should patronize our local languages in the region of origin, but English is the national language for a reason beca ...
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I don't understand Akan, and besides it's a minor language on the world scene. English is the way to go, we should patronize our local languages in the region of origin, but English is the national language for a reason because it unifies us with each other and the rest of the world, It's a universal language, and the language of commerce.
be wise 7 years ago

Twi should rather be your course not akan. The akan dialect is big but the prominent and easy one is the Twi (asante,akuapem, akyem, assin, adanse etc), followed by fante, the others like bono, wassa, brosa, ahanta, nzema are ...
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Twi should rather be your course not akan. The akan dialect is big but the prominent and easy one is the Twi (asante,akuapem, akyem, assin, adanse etc), followed by fante, the others like bono, wassa, brosa, ahanta, nzema are ancient or archaic (conservative) akan so hard for average ghanaian to easily understand.
kwaku 7 years ago

steps in right direction may be only twi is ok Europe they have many languages but they have one national language.

steps in right direction may be only twi is ok Europe they have many languages but they have one national language.
blankson 7 years ago

its good.if english and you cant translate is void. i think its a scratch now

its good.if english and you cant translate is void. i think its a scratch now
ken 7 years ago

Best practice for any Government with so many local languages. The English language was forced upon us remember.

Best practice for any Government with so many local languages. The English language was forced upon us remember.
ELINAM 7 years ago

So this minister believed those who speak and write English are "educated"? If These "useless" bunch were educated, then why Ghana which has been in their hand for 60 years is still so poor?

King Osei Tutu I did not know ...
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So this minister believed those who speak and write English are "educated"? If These "useless" bunch were educated, then why Ghana which has been in their hand for 60 years is still so poor?

King Osei Tutu I did not know who the hell the English and the Europeans were but he wrote a constitution for the Asante kingdom and did more in nation building than those who are bragging with big English words in our parliament and on radios.
Mansa Mensa remained the wealthiest man ever lived but during his time, the so-called English were living in their sorry nation worst than animals. And he did not need no outside technology to dig his vast gold reserves that he dug to dominate the market.
Our ppl who speak no English are rather the most educated on our environment and are the best to develop the environment we live in and NOT those who had studied about Europe in order to develop Africa. The culture of Europe and that of the pale race is a culture of death and the African environment is that of a culture of life. And if nothing seems to be working after 60 years, then it's because the study and the knowledge of "death-culture" by the "educated" elites can not be applied in a culture stemming organically with life.
Time to look at things psychologically through profound reasoning devoid of all emotions.

How do we understand the ENERGY that runs Africa and black ppl? That energy needs to be studied and should be UNDERSTOOD or else, nothing we do can not stand and will remained opposite to our " kra ".
Sacooco 7 years ago

So Npp too has started fooling ,OK we shall see.what is the essence of this policy

So Npp too has started fooling ,OK we shall see.what is the essence of this policy
Bamoan Michael 7 years ago

I comment on behalf of my people (Konkombas) that, Konkomba should be study in schools. The language konkomba is now spoken in a very large portion of Ghana's land. I hope this for sure would help students and every individua ...
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I comment on behalf of my people (Konkombas) that, Konkomba should be study in schools. The language konkomba is now spoken in a very large portion of Ghana's land. I hope this for sure would help students and every individual in these areas like Volta north, all the three northern regions and others.
Alidza 7 years ago

Did u listen to yourself.study konkomba in which region.you guys are landless

Did u listen to yourself.study konkomba in which region.you guys are landless
Gandaag 7 years ago

''Now I accept the Dagaare suggestion, so I will add Dagaare because yes, I realise that the six languages cover the entire part of Ghana except the Upper West'. what about upper east? which of the 6 languages is spoken in up ...
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''Now I accept the Dagaare suggestion, so I will add Dagaare because yes, I realise that the six languages cover the entire part of Ghana except the Upper West'. what about upper east? which of the 6 languages is spoken in upper east? is this what we voted for?
JM, SA 7 years ago

This is a good move, but it needs to include all languages studied at our Universities. Both lecturers and students need these as resource materials. That apart, people in the Upper East Region who can only read and understan ...
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This is a good move, but it needs to include all languages studied at our Universities. Both lecturers and students need these as resource materials. That apart, people in the Upper East Region who can only read and understand Gurune and Kusaal are left out.
STEVE 7 years ago

Is a welcome news. Some people have no idea what Nkrumah did, because they were not even born when the coup took place, so for someone like AYITEY SANTANA to say that Nkrumah should have spoken Twi is absolute nonsense. Nkrum ...
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Is a welcome news. Some people have no idea what Nkrumah did, because they were not even born when the coup took place, so for someone like AYITEY SANTANA to say that Nkrumah should have spoken Twi is absolute nonsense. Nkrumah spoke Twi, and daily news was given daily by GBC in all the fore mentioned languages. Please stop writing nonsense.
AG 7 years ago

you are very stupid.This doesn't make sense at all. So u think the northern part of country speak only Dagbani.Idiot!

you are very stupid.This doesn't make sense at all. So u think the northern part of country speak only Dagbani.Idiot!
mr amin 7 years ago

Is not about knowing the policies put the action on the ground, all this translation come at a cost.

Is not about knowing the policies put the action on the ground, all this translation come at a cost.
Joe 7 years ago

It's the lack of understanding of policies that is killing us.The problem is wickedness,corruption and lack of enforcement. You are using this to spend more money .Useless man.

It's the lack of understanding of policies that is killing us.The problem is wickedness,corruption and lack of enforcement. You are using this to spend more money .Useless man.
MANSA MUSA 7 years ago

If you can't read, you can't read. Reading doesn't have to be in english. If I speak dagbani and I can't read dagbani, of what use will this translation be to me? Idiots! NPP is just creating avenues to loot money from the st ...
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If you can't read, you can't read. Reading doesn't have to be in english. If I speak dagbani and I can't read dagbani, of what use will this translation be to me? Idiots! NPP is just creating avenues to loot money from the state all under the disguise of whatever. Create, Loot & Share is what is going on here.
nana 7 years ago

am strong npp fan. Please mr. Hamid Hausa is not a ghanaian language please. there is no tribe in ghana that speaks Hausa. who ever that will read my comments should google all the tribes in ghana and check the language that ...
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am strong npp fan. Please mr. Hamid Hausa is not a ghanaian language please. there is no tribe in ghana that speaks Hausa. who ever that will read my comments should google all the tribes in ghana and check the language that they speak.so Hausa is not a local language. please do your corrections well. pleasesssssssss.
Adabogo 7 years ago

this Is serious matter ooo
if u dont understand english how then do you read a document in the local dialect.
is it not the same English alphabets that is used write the local dialect!
mr minister please come again.
rathe ...
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this Is serious matter ooo
if u dont understand english how then do you read a document in the local dialect.
is it not the same English alphabets that is used write the local dialect!
mr minister please come again.
rather concentrate on implementing o
your polices rather than worry about us reading them
Kutsii 7 years ago

Print a lot of them. Erect billboards for all to know your effort.etc the colour of the policy book be pink. Go round the country and talk talk and talk aaaaa and leave the work idle.

Are u not tired talking through oppos ...
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Print a lot of them. Erect billboards for all to know your effort.etc the colour of the policy book be pink. Go round the country and talk talk and talk aaaaa and leave the work idle.

Are u not tired talking through opposition to power? Fix the cedi dollar rate and stop increasing fuel prices by heart. Prices of goods are rising and u this Hamid is talking nonsense printing of paper as policy. Fool.

What are the numerous radio and TV stations there for? Is it not to disseminate information, and even faster. Fool

If u want some 10% commission on the printing of the nonsense policy, say it and don't try to be smart, whilst we look at :-/ from afar as stupid. Fool
SALIS 7 years ago

it is now evidently clear how much hatred the NPP party harbours for we GONJAS. Whatever you people do, you can't break us. You simply just don't want to incorporate our language into your policies. Goons

it is now evidently clear how much hatred the NPP party harbours for we GONJAS. Whatever you people do, you can't break us. You simply just don't want to incorporate our language into your policies. Goons
Ugly akufo addo 7 years ago

Sacrifice to the smaller god's in the north

Sacrifice to the smaller god's in the north
Nack 7 years ago

60 years now you don't even no the Ghanaian tribal languages, if you don't know and force Hausa language on Ghanaians my brother it means you are to create a problem, we are in diaspora but we will fight it back, you few poli ...
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60 years now you don't even no the Ghanaian tribal languages, if you don't know and force Hausa language on Ghanaians my brother it means you are to create a problem, we are in diaspora but we will fight it back, you few politicians think that Ghanaians are fools,since independence there was only 5 Ghanaian languages been spoken on the Radio we have Ewe, Ga adangbe, Akan, Dabgani, and Guan. mind you, you can't take away any Ghanaian language and put foreign language, I rest my case, and we will fight it down to the last intoto demostration will be organise nation wild and you would show is the region that you can have an hausa so a word to a wise is enough, there is no any local language in Ghana called Hausa, today the world has become so problematic confusion and troubles don't invite all those.
France 7 years ago

Please Mr. minister is this the ideas of the council of state that Nana Addo asked them to advice him, what do you mean by Hausa? you want to insult us, it means you are going to share the national identity card to all those ...
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Please Mr. minister is this the ideas of the council of state that Nana Addo asked them to advice him, what do you mean by Hausa? you want to insult us, it means you are going to share the national identity card to all those people then go and start from Niger then you come down to Nigeria, even there are some part of Nigeria when you speak Hausa language people take cover if you don't know go to Nigeria.

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