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Misplaced priority: Changing English as official language to what?

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  • Kwobia 7 years ago

    A local language as a national language? I've reflected on this issue countless number of times,and my view is that the effort to create a national language is not worth possibly losing one's life over.The real reason for the ...
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  • kellics 7 years ago

    Your piece will surely torment the'Tribal bigot'.please continue to post this excellent write-ups from time to time.

  • Ada Boy 7 years ago

    certainly a well thought through and balance piece. Those clamouring for a change to local language as medium of instruction in our schools have made a poor case, driven only by inferiority complex and xenophobia more than a ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 7 years ago

    English is the medium of instruction in Ghanaian schools. PERIOD.

    Prof Jane Naana misled our education leading to massive and irritating failures. She needlessly argued for the use of local languages as if she lives on ano ...
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  • Chief amankwa 7 years ago

    You are fool
    Sowhy dont u allow us to maintain white rule
    Bcos there tribal sentiment if ashanti or ewe or ga becomes president..
    Even china with many languages hv develop one dialect ..all countries developing use their ...
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  • K Fosu 7 years ago

    Have you thought of developing a unique Ghanaian alphabet devoid of the Latin one to be used in Ghana? The Chinese and the Koreans developed their own.It took a German to come to the Gold Coast, learn our own native tongue an ...
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  • Sankofa 7 years ago

    The Chinese and Koreans use their own local languages as official language. yet they are more developed than we are.

    The educated Ivorians are French men in black skins through the French colonial policy of assimilation.
    ...
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  • ASANTE IMPERIALISTS 7 years ago

    Some Asantes are simply LAZY to learn English. That is what all this is about.
    They want to IMPOSE TWI on EVERYBOBY. Go to the banks, offices etc. They REFUSE to speak English, or CANT SPEAK ENGLISH and speak TWI to you..
    H ...
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  • K Fosu 7 years ago

    I realised the hopelessness of my own "Asante Twi" when I started travelling through West Africa. A person who speaks Sefwi, Wassa, Brong, Nzema or Ahanta will have no problem at all in having a conversation with a person who ...
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  • i and i 7 years ago

    you wish you were an Asante, take it or leave it Asantes will continue to be an Asante, trokosi bastard.

  • ANOKWALE 7 years ago

    I and I, Asante Imperialist made points.,
    If you are that smart, you will not be here insulting him.
    You want to study in top universities, Twi will not take you there.
    And whoever told you in Asanteland there is no Troko ...
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  • sally 7 years ago

    man we are talking about ghana you are talking about benin and togo one of the poorest in africa sit down and talk rubbish for me as ashanti i dont want twi as a national language i want the 5 akan region to develop akan lang ...
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  • sally 7 years ago

    stop lying you are not akan because no akan talks about benin togo or nigeria as something to emulate. we are talking about ghana you are talking about benin and togo one of the poorest in africa sit down and talk rubbish for ...
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  • ADRO-CHOPPERS 7 years ago

    Face facts. The writer you are accusing can be PUNJABI, GODOGOLI, SISALA or any tribe=Just face the facts here.
    Stop talking about BS royals etc. We are not in 15th Century. Twi is USELESS. It wont take Ghanaians ANYWHERE. Y ...
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  • ADRO-CHOPPERS 7 years ago

    This is what happens if you cant speak English and go to Europe and CHOP ADRO.
    Most European Universities TEACH in English.
    See this VIDEO. Copy and Paste the link

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39-5VBf0Vx8

  • Sankofa 7 years ago

    Why should an Asante speak English?

    An Asante is proud of his language and culture, so speaks Twi whenever and wherever possible.

    You can absorb foreign concepts into any language. You do not necessarily have to transla ...
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  • K Fosu 7 years ago

    And why should Frafra,Ewe or Ga person be forced to speak Asante Twi? He/She will tell you to stick your "Twi" where it belongs! The Irish, Welsh and Scots realised the limited capabilities of their own language in terms of s ...
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  • Efo Atsu 7 years ago

    Train your child at home to master her mother tongue(s) and the official language - English. You will be amazed at the linguistic outcome.
    I had 3 children of almost the same ages read English passages for me. The child with ...
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  • KAB 7 years ago

    There can be chn who have an easier time with languages than other chn. Learning one language can facilitate the learning of another. The first language does not have to be your mother tongue.

    But, yes, it's good to encou ...
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  • K Fosu 7 years ago

    Accent is not the problem. Wole Soyinka"s English is far superior than a lot of so-called Englishmen. David Beckham who once said "I wasn"t teached". He did not even know the past tense of teach.

  • Yaw 7 years ago

    How many people speak n understand English in Ghana? Compare this to French in Ivory Coast or Congo or English in Nigeria. A lot of beautiful ideas from over 70% of Ghana population ain't been involved in our development due ...
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  • Sankofa 7 years ago

    Bernard Asubonteng, think again!

    English is a foreign language imposed on us by colonialists. It is merely an accident of history that we use English as our official language and medium of instruction in our educaTION SYST ...
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  • George 7 years ago

    Twi agenda will fail.

  • KKO 7 years ago

    Bernard,
    Tanzania actually abandoned that experiment after the demise of Nyerere. That Ujamaa experiment together with the use of Swahili set the country back many decades.

    After the discovery of gas in the country, they ...
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