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Akosua Adomako Ampofo Quotes

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Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Ghanaian academic who is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana. She is feminist activist-scholar, and a strong advocate for social justice.

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I urge parents, teachers, and religious leaders to read about the country’s history and teach their children.

History should be taught from the kindergarten level, adding that the current practice in some tertiary institutions where students undertook history as a course for one semester “is not enough.

Step to the side or to the back. Allow the people for whom this is life and death to take the lead. We all live on this planet, need each other’s support.

I urge the Ministry of Education to make history a compulsory subject in schools. That would enable young people to know their true identity as Ghanaians and Africans, and empower them to become responsible citizens.

If you’re not careful, a movement can lose its edge. Other people can appropriate it for their own careers, It becomes devalued.

For what does it profit a man (and in this case by "man" I do mean a couple of biological and social males) if he is considered to be a superstar but does not invest in his intellectual DNA?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Akosua Adomako Ampofo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.