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Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten is a Ghanaian media practitioner and the former Head of the Akan-Nzema Department of the College of Languages Education, Ajumako Campus of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. She is the first person to receive a doctorate degree in the Twi language, one of the varieties of Akan.
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We can start from somewhere by making Ghanaian languages compulsory subjects from the kindergarten (KG) to the senior high school (SHS) level.
Politicians mostly speak their indigenous languages during campaigns. If you speak people’s language, they are able to easily identify or flow with you.
There are things that are known to be taboos but are mentioned anyhow on radio by some of these Twi presenters on both TV and radio.
It is common to see some politicians, presenters and other dignitaries trading insults on air, forgetting that children are equally listening and might pick the indecent Twi Language spoken on air.
It has become so obvious that if you can insult people very well, you are awarded a position when your government comes to power, and that is bad.
Because we are failing to teach our children, a lot of them lack wisdom which leads to the lack of maturity among many of the youth and that translates into our politics.
It was everybody’s responsibility to guard against insulting comments by politicians during their campaigns.
They were only interested in passing derogatory remarks against their political opponents as though they were enemies.
Because we have taken our language and culture for granted, parents don’t speak and teach much of their indigenous languages embedded in our culture with their children.
I urged the media not to give their platforms to politically exposed individuals to spew insults at their political opponents, a situation she said could lead to tensions in the country.
Language was powerful and delicate — it can make and unmake a person, it can break a nation — it was language that led to the Rwandan genocide.
The first day I came on TV I didn’t inform my parents but they saw me and were all thrilled, and my dad called me and said I was indeed a go-getter.
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