Kwesi Kwaa Prah Quotes

b. 1942

Kwesi Kwaa Leah (born 1942, Kumasi) is an author, public speaker, and a Sociology professor, who was born in Ghana and has been based in southern Africa since the 1980s.He is the author of several books, including Beyond The Color Line (1997). He has also published many articles revolving around the topics of Africa's history and what is to come in Africa's future, as well as speaking and writing on issues such as the education system and social reforms.

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No country can make progress on the basis of a borrowed language, understood only by a minority.

If we continue to pretend that African languages are unimportant in the drive to achieve ‘education for all.

ICT is enormously important – it is moving the world forward and of great intellectual interest – but without African languages, we cannot make a difference to Africans. You cannot lift Africa without African languages.

Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. They stopped using the language of their French colonisers: this is precisely why they are succeeding.

Education is still a privilege of the westernised elite. We talk about development through education and training, but in whose language?

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