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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 12 February, 2021 A letter signed by Beatrice Ama Ntanu, Director of Valley View University Basic Schools and dated Feb 3 2021, notified parents that the teaching of Ga language will be phased out for lower primary due to lack of teachers; it immediately went viral. An insider staff familiar with the matter confirmed the letter to writersghana.com, and explained that the students who had  elected to read Ga had been performing poorly at the BECE.   This Valley View University’s Basic School Ga language policy is unacceptable for many reasons.  From the beginning, the National Council for Tertiary EducationRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 30 March 2020 The only time I met Oko Dagadu, the veteran broadcaster, was an uplifting moment for minority languages anywhere in the world. The details. One early Homowo season in 2017, Alhaji Ahmed Salim Sowah, my preferred aide de camp at Radio Latenu 96.1MhZ accompanied me to North Ridge, Accra. We entered the home of Amatei Akuete, president of Ga Adangbe Council who succeeded the venerable KB Asante. The Ga Adangbe Council was founded as an independent think tank to promote Ga language and culture. Inside the house we also met Oko Dagadu, the legendary Ga language broadcaster/producerRead More →