Ghana’s plan to adopt local languages aims to honour its linguistic diversity and preserve the country’s rich cultural heritage while enhancing citizen engagement in the legislative process. English ...

Today, Ghana has about 16 schools for the Deaf. However, equal educational opportunities elude Deaf people in Ghana and students encounter many challenges. Chief among them is the fact that Ghana has ...

In recent years I have observed something deeply troubling in Ghanaian homes and communities. I have seen children under the age of ten who cannot understand or speak their own local language. A child ...

The NYPD added a new language Thursday to its growing lexicon: Ewe, pronounced just like “away.” Two of the 650 recruits that joined the NYPD Police Academy Thursday speak the primary language of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghana is partnering with Google to develop AI-powered education tools in local languages, starting with Twi, Ewe, Dagbani, and ...

The government of Ghana has announced that all teachers must now use local languages as the main medium of instruction at the basic school level. Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu revealed the new ...

Language experts are raising concerns about the growing number of Ghanaian families who prefer speaking English at home instead of their native languages. They say many parents do this to show that ...

The recent directive by the Ministry of Education that Ghanaian languages should be used as the medium of instruction in all basic schools (KG-JHS) is neither theoretically grounded nor empirically ...

Recently the Ministry of Education announced that instruction in schools would still be strictly carried out in English. Not surprisingly, the reactions have been swift and condemnatory. Cultural ...