January 2019 (Page 2)

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 7 January, 2019   The United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019) is here with us. The international media has given tremendous publicity to the formal launch ceremony scheduled for January 28 in Paris, France. The Vatican media, for example, has highlighted the event and accorded it editorial focus. Religious institutions place much premium on language and culture to enhance their evangelisation missions. But what is the stance of Ghanaian state institutions on the year-long affair? Do our state institutions need to hype this occasion and tell us whether they are attending or not and if notRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 4 January, 2019 Louis Braille was born today, January 4, 1809 in Coupvray, France. He died 6 January, 1852, aged 43. Today, Louis Braille remains one of the unique and most important contributors to the advancement of the written word; he invented the Braille system of writing named after him. Charles Barbier, a former soldier who had invented a system of writing for the military using 12 raised dots on a page had his idea rejected. Barbier’s system was useful to even illiterate soldiers but was thought too complex. Barbier’s “Night writing” as he termed it was to helpRead More →

  By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 2 January, 2018 The debate about a National Cathedral for Ghana is still with us. When I told my big boy I was going to write this article he stated, ‘Daddy, Ghanaians will call you an Antichrist’. He has come to know the terrain well. Fortunately, POTROG himself set the tone and parameters for this debate when he presided over the fundraising dinner for the National Cathedral last Friday. ‘President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he promised God a National Cathedral before he became president, and will redeem that pledge’, was the lead in the modernghana.com story of 29Read More →