Ghanaian culture on Website

Wa, Jan. 25, GNA - The National Commission on Culture is developing a Website that would expose the rich Ghanaian culture to the outside world to attract investment and tourists.

As a result, a call has been made to the government and non-governmental organisations engaged in the sustenance of good cultural practices to empower and re-instate the cultures that unify the people.

Mr Emmanuel Gawuga, Director of the National Folklore Board announced this at a two-day seminar organised for district cultural officers and their collaborators in the Upper West Region.

He said it would be out of order to expose cultures that had lost their significance in society adding that most cultural practices were fading off due to the lack of logistics to sustain them.

"Culture is like air in an inner tube of a car tyre, which is very important though not physically seen," he opined.

Mr Mark Dugbe, Upper West Regional Director of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) attributed the fading of traditions and good cultural practices to the lack of transport and other logistics of the centres to explore available avenues.

He appealed to the government to consider culture as an integral part of development and support the Centre logistically to bring the rich Ghanaian culture to the expected standards.

Mr Dugbe urged the CNC to come out boldly to tell the whole world as to whether the Upper West Region would host the next National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFAC) next year.

"In that case I would be saved from the daily questions and phone calls concerning the festival" he added.