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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.

— Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten

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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.

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