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 ...

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 School of Languages at the University of Ghana has called for urgent and coordinated action to safeguard Ghana's indigenous languages from decline.

Long after political independence, Ghana still wrestles with a subtler inheritance: the dominance of foreign languages over native tongues. On the dawn of 6th March 1957, as Kwame Nkrumah and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Clement Apaak, has reaffirmed that English and French will remain integral to Ghana's education system. He said English will become the principal language of ...

It is refreshing and, indeed, exciting to pay recognition to the momentum by some parliamentarians to render submissions in indigenous Ghanaian languages on the floor of the Parliament of Ghana in ...

President John Dramani Mahama’s call for the use of local languages in schools is a bold and visionary idea. It reminds us that our languages — Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, and others, carry our history, ...

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has made a passionate case for Ghana to use culture and language as strategic tools for attracting investment and strengthening national branding. Speaking on ...