New Vernacular Computers Out

A LONDON-BASED Ghanaian information technology engineer and consultant, Mr. Daniel Addo-Adjei has assembled a computer software in vernacular.

Briefing newsmen, Addo-Adjei said he personally assembled the software to make it easier to operate and affordable.

According to the engineer, his objective is to place the Ghanaian language on the international market and be accorded linguistic recognition and dignity.

Addo-Adjei, who is participating in this year's Trade Fair with his computers, disclosed that he was working hard to come out before the end of this year with a software for Ga and Ewe.

He urged the government to make teaching of Ghanaian language compulsory in schools adding that a "neglect of our mother tongue in favour of a foreign one diminishes our talent and demeans our culture".

The engineer, who lectures in Twi at Hendon College, London, argued that the Akan language is linked with her rich culture.

He asserted that culture cannot survive in a vacuum.

"Many a Ghanaian home enthusiastically encourages its wards to speak, read and write English, the official language of Ghana.

But is it right that a sovereign state should abandon her language for that of another", he asked.

Addo-Adjei was optimistic that soon Ghanaians would be electronic mailing in their dialect and read their mother tongue on the Internet.

He appealed to the government to support him to enable him assemble more vernacular computers.

Addo-Adjei, who has built seven modules in computer in English, has presented two multimedia Pentium computers and accessories to the Ghana High Commission to help ease the pressure of work on staff of the Passport section in London.