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 ...

A historian at the University of Ghana says language is central to the survival of culture and knowledge, warning that Ghana risks losing critical aspects of its identity if indigenous languages ...

By Nicholas ARTHUR-BAIDOO Jnr, Elsie Edinam AVEVOR, Mustapha BELLO, and Francis Kwesku ESSEL A language waiting to be heardIn every corner of Ghana, language lives. It is expressed in various ways and ...

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 ...

Google is partnering with the Ghanaian government to offer its residents education and training in AI tools that use local languages. Google will work with the University of Ghana and GDI Hub to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The history of language and education in Africa cannot be separated from the colonial project. British colonial education was never intended to create independent thinkers; it was designed to produce ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a research team led by the Potsdam psycholinguists Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan and Paul ...