How the Gas can rediscover their lost glory

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dawuni 12 years ago

Gas must stand up and protect their language and heritage. I think Alottey kpakpo is a great guy and if all Gas listen to what he is saying, things will turn around. Gas must proudly speak their language first instead trying ...
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Gas must stand up and protect their language and heritage. I think Alottey kpakpo is a great guy and if all Gas listen to what he is saying, things will turn around. Gas must proudly speak their language first instead trying to outspeak other peoples' languages.
JUSTICE 12 years ago

Nii Kpakpo I am glad to read this arcle. You are a leader and we shall rally round this call. I will contact you through the email for my widows. GOD BLESS YOU AND TASK YOU HAVE STARTED.

Nii Kpakpo I am glad to read this arcle. You are a leader and we shall rally round this call. I will contact you through the email for my widows. GOD BLESS YOU AND TASK YOU HAVE STARTED.
naa 12 years ago

Kpakpo please i can't wait please hurry god bless you

Kpakpo please i can't wait please hurry god bless you
Zigi 12 years ago

I am not a Ga, but I will support you. None of our languages should die.

I am not a Ga, but I will support you. None of our languages should die.
GHANABA 12 years ago

HENRY,YOU HAVE A POINT,BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU COLLECTIVELY WE ARE NOT DOING GHANA ANY GOOD WITH THE CONSTANT PROLIFERATION OF ALL THESE LANGUAGES ON THE RADIO WAVES.WE NEED TO MASTER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS THE IRISH AND THE WE ...
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HENRY,YOU HAVE A POINT,BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU COLLECTIVELY WE ARE NOT DOING GHANA ANY GOOD WITH THE CONSTANT PROLIFERATION OF ALL THESE LANGUAGES ON THE RADIO WAVES.WE NEED TO MASTER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS THE IRISH AND THE WELSH DID TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS IN THE WIDERWORLD.NEEDLESS TO SAY,BEAT THE ENGLISH AT THEIR OWN GAME.THINK OF ACHEBE,SOYINKA, WHO WOULD HAVE READ THEIR CLASSICS IN IBO OR YORUBA? THINK OF KEATS,OSCAR WILDE,ALL IRISH BUT AROUSED THE WORLD VIA ENGLISH.FANTE WOULD HAVE TAKEN KOFI ANNAN NOWHERE.I WOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE JOY OF READING SOME OF YOUR ARTICLES IF THEY WERE WRITTEN IN TWI OR GA.FRANKLY, I THINK THE GOVT SHOULD RESTRICT THE AMOUNT OF TWI RADIO STATIONS AND INTRODUCE MORE ENGLISH ONES TO HELP THE YOUTH UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE VERY WELL,JOURNALIST CAN EXPLAIN WORDS,COURT PROCEDURES IN PLAIN ENGLISH TO THE YOUTHS.SOUTH AMERICANS STILL HAVE THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGES BUT THEY ALL SPEAK AND WRITE SPANISH.THAT I THINK IS THE WAY FORWARD.
GA FOMOBI 12 years ago

NII KPAKPO HAD AWAKEN SLEEPING DOGS, HONEST ONES SUCH AS GHANABA ARE MAKING FAIR CONTRIBUTIONS WHILE THE ENEMIES ARE RUNNING SCARED

NII KPAKPO HAD AWAKEN SLEEPING DOGS, HONEST ONES SUCH AS GHANABA ARE MAKING FAIR CONTRIBUTIONS WHILE THE ENEMIES ARE RUNNING SCARED
Victor A. Young 12 years ago

The Ga language will never, ever die! People shouldn't worry themselves about anything. The Ga language is being taught in schools and that tell me that it's still alive and will forever remain so until the end of time (end o ...
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The Ga language will never, ever die! People shouldn't worry themselves about anything. The Ga language is being taught in schools and that tell me that it's still alive and will forever remain so until the end of time (end of the world).

We may disagree on some facts from time to time, but that doesn't mean Ghana should be divided along tribal lines. We're still one great people an family.

Long live the Ga people and their heritage and traditions. Amen!
Kush 12 years ago

You were just preaching tribalism under another article, now pretending here to be nationalistic in nature. You Hypocrite!

You were just preaching tribalism under another article, now pretending here to be nationalistic in nature. You Hypocrite!
FAIRPLAY 12 years ago

Are scared of the GAS recovering their lost glory? Your twi language is aired everywhere to the exclusion of the rest, using it to amass support for your selves in all things Ghana, so what is wrong if GAS decide to promote T ...
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Are scared of the GAS recovering their lost glory? Your twi language is aired everywhere to the exclusion of the rest, using it to amass support for your selves in all things Ghana, so what is wrong if GAS decide to promote THEIR LANGUAGE.
never say die 12 years ago

Ga language will never die. They only way it will die is when gas as a people become extinct. As long as there are gas, there will be ga language. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and leave my people alone.

Ga language will never die. They only way it will die is when gas as a people become extinct. As long as there are gas, there will be ga language. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and leave my people alone.

Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

As much as English is spreading so does Twi/Akan and a thousand radio stations would not be the agency of butressing Ga in Accra. Even in core Ga areas such as Osu, La, Teshie, it is Akan/Twi that seems to be prevailing!

As much as English is spreading so does Twi/Akan and a thousand radio stations would not be the agency of butressing Ga in Accra. Even in core Ga areas such as Osu, La, Teshie, it is Akan/Twi that seems to be prevailing!
Imothep 12 years ago

Although your solutions to our problems are too naive, it is better than none. At least we should start from somewhere.
Tswa omanye ablawoo.

Although your solutions to our problems are too naive, it is better than none. At least we should start from somewhere.
Tswa omanye ablawoo.
****** 12 years ago

SO Akadu Mensema, you do not the writer is aware of what you have just said? Is it not for the very reason that he has started this crusade? So what is your contribution? if don't have any then please keep quiet. So because t ...
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SO Akadu Mensema, you do not the writer is aware of what you have just said? Is it not for the very reason that he has started this crusade? So what is your contribution? if don't have any then please keep quiet. So because the Twi/Akan language is prevailing in those Ga areas so Gas should fold their arms and die?
FAIRPLAY 12 years ago

AKADU MENSEMA is the one who wrote an article describing Gas as below par using the words "I WILL NOT EVEN USE THE WORD SMART BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. She hated President Mills bitterly for the simple reason according to her Pre ...
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AKADU MENSEMA is the one who wrote an article describing Gas as below par using the words "I WILL NOT EVEN USE THE WORD SMART BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. She hated President Mills bitterly for the simple reason according to her President Mills gave positions to EWES AND NORTHERNERS.She is a very bitter woman and dangerously tribalistic and must not be tolerated in anything peaceful
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

I know who you are: an old prof in Canada who write a nasty poem about Asantes in Accra. If persist, I will post the poem here for all to see!

I know who you are: an old prof in Canada who write a nasty poem about Asantes in Accra. If persist, I will post the poem here for all to see!
Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

Akadu, just leave some of these people alone. I once posted that Akan is widely spoken everywhere in Ghana not because Akans impose their language on any other group. It is a business language and there is nothing that can be ...
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Akadu, just leave some of these people alone. I once posted that Akan is widely spoken everywhere in Ghana not because Akans impose their language on any other group. It is a business language and there is nothing that can be done to change that. Let any other group establish an FM and speak their language only and see if it can stay in business. Even the English speaking Only FM stations in Ghana cannot compete with most of the Akan stations.
Akadu, even look on this forum. Most insults including vulgar languages are done in Akan. Why? It is because such people want to reach a larger audience.
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN"MINBA,MINDBA"]I AM COMING IN GA AND"MEBA,MEBA}I AM COMING IN TWI?
IS IT NOT THE SAME.
THE GHOST IN GHANA SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES SPEAK TWI WHEN THEY RECEIVE THE GOATS AND CHICKENS.

WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN"MINBA,MINDBA"]I AM COMING IN GA AND"MEBA,MEBA}I AM COMING IN TWI?
IS IT NOT THE SAME.
THE GHOST IN GHANA SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES SPEAK TWI WHEN THEY RECEIVE THE GOATS AND CHICKENS.
Saint James 12 years ago

I share your concern but I am surprised you don't know the underlying cause of your problems.The crux of the matter is DISUNITY among Gas.For instance,the dispute about who should be the Ga Mantse is a very serious problem yo ...
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I share your concern but I am surprised you don't know the underlying cause of your problems.The crux of the matter is DISUNITY among Gas.For instance,the dispute about who should be the Ga Mantse is a very serious problem you have to resolve in order to move forward.Secondly,you have to embrace all Adangbes as your brothers and sisters.Recently a top NDC member who is a Ga protested the appointments of Adangbes for NDC positions,while according to him,"real" Gas were not given appointments.Remember,in unity lies strength.
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

THE GHOST IN GHANA SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES SPEAK TWI WHEN THEY RECEIVE THE SACRIFICED GOATS AND CHICKENS SO TELL THEM TO SHUT UP.

THE GHOST IN GHANA SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES SPEAK TWI WHEN THEY RECEIVE THE SACRIFICED GOATS AND CHICKENS SO TELL THEM TO SHUT UP.
Bonee Nye 12 years ago

I read both your previous article and the current with keen interest.I believe
you are on the right course.May the Lord bless your intention.

I read both your previous article and the current with keen interest.I believe
you are on the right course.May the Lord bless your intention.

Audrey 12 years ago

Gas cannot get back their glory with the filth that engulfs the current generation. We have lost our sense of cleanliness and have become a laughingstock in the eyes of others. Who respects filth loving people?

Gas cannot get back their glory with the filth that engulfs the current generation. We have lost our sense of cleanliness and have become a laughingstock in the eyes of others. Who respects filth loving people?
KevinB 12 years ago

You are wrong Audrey.
Most people who pollute Accra are the non-starters! They come in their numbers every tickling second from their various villagers into Accra to pay their way into the warm hearted Gas abode and mess wit ...
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You are wrong Audrey.
Most people who pollute Accra are the non-starters! They come in their numbers every tickling second from their various villagers into Accra to pay their way into the warm hearted Gas abode and mess with impudence the Gas heritage.

The problem with the Gas are selfish to their own folks but serviceable and magnanimous to non-Gas with the hope of gaining in return cash or cheap rewards.

There are few Gas who own Radio stations but who cares..they do not think about the dying language of theirs.
Typical example is XYZ (FM).
Kojo T 12 years ago

True again

True again
naa 12 years ago

You are a fool to say that we are filthy , how many Gas live in Accra now , what is our population I respect other tribes so I won't say anything bad but don't insult us you fool.

You are a fool to say that we are filthy , how many Gas live in Accra now , what is our population I respect other tribes so I won't say anything bad but don't insult us you fool.
Mahomet 12 years ago

Then Ghana will become a huge tower of babel. What a stupid idea (:-:)?

Then Ghana will become a huge tower of babel. What a stupid idea (:-:)?
FAIRPLAY 12 years ago

So be it even Ashanti president and his ministers go on radio to speak their twi language to the exclusion of the rest of Ghanaians and they are still doing it with impunity. I know he MAHONET IS ONE OF THEM, scared of Nii' ...
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So be it even Ashanti president and his ministers go on radio to speak their twi language to the exclusion of the rest of Ghanaians and they are still doing it with impunity. I know he MAHONET IS ONE OF THEM, scared of Nii's propasal to remedy the situation for GAS.
Mahomet 12 years ago

Answer my question. Why stop with Gas? Aren't the Sissalas, Gonjas, Ayigbes, Bonos, Frafras, Akwapims, Kwahus, Akyems, Fantes, .....entitled to their language being spoken by Ghanaians beyond their homes? Fairplay my ass. So ...
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Answer my question. Why stop with Gas? Aren't the Sissalas, Gonjas, Ayigbes, Bonos, Frafras, Akwapims, Kwahus, Akyems, Fantes, .....entitled to their language being spoken by Ghanaians beyond their homes? Fairplay my ass. So K4 spoke twi. K4 and the NPP were in power for 8 years. EIGHT YEARS! And you are accusing him of foisting twi on the nation. Massa, you are on a losing path.
FAIRPLAY 12 years ago

MAHONET YOUR RESPONSE IDENTIFIES YOU

MAHONET YOUR RESPONSE IDENTIFIES YOU
Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

HAS ANY GROUP BEING ASKED NOT TO SET UP RADIO STATIONS AT ANY PLACE AND SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE? WHY CAN WE BE SO PATHETIC. DID RAWLINGS NOT SPEAK GA BESIDES ENGLIS, AND OCCASIONALLY SPOKE SOME BROKEN TWI? DID EWES COMPLAIN? WHA ...
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HAS ANY GROUP BEING ASKED NOT TO SET UP RADIO STATIONS AT ANY PLACE AND SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE? WHY CAN WE BE SO PATHETIC. DID RAWLINGS NOT SPEAK GA BESIDES ENGLIS, AND OCCASIONALLY SPOKE SOME BROKEN TWI? DID EWES COMPLAIN? WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM TRIBALISM?
brick city man 12 years ago

yes i am complaining. too much twi. let us listen to other languages too, at least in their home regions. other tribes are worried about the akannazation of ghana.

yes i am complaining. too much twi. let us listen to other languages too, at least in their home regions. other tribes are worried about the akannazation of ghana.

Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

Then complain about Anglicization of Ghana. Set up a Radio Station and speak all you can about your language. Who cares? For now, you just have to accept the situation and stop bickering. Go to your family home,rented home an ...
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Then complain about Anglicization of Ghana. Set up a Radio Station and speak all you can about your language. Who cares? For now, you just have to accept the situation and stop bickering. Go to your family home,rented home and see how many speak Twi other than their own language. Travel outside Ghana to any other country and realize that even those who are not Ghanaians want to communicate with you first in Twi if they happen to understand any Ghanaian language. Brick City Man, just deal with it. You speak more Akan than your own language outside Ghana.
Andy Ewuntomah 12 years ago

At least someone is trying to use civilised means in Ga land, instead of the tribalistic ways of not allowing other ethnic groups to operate in Accra. First and foremost, Accra Stadium should be changed back to Ohene Djan S ...
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At least someone is trying to use civilised means in Ga land, instead of the tribalistic ways of not allowing other ethnic groups to operate in Accra. First and foremost, Accra Stadium should be changed back to Ohene Djan Stadium. The cry for Gas to dominate activities in Accra should stop. This is the right way to go
KevinB 12 years ago

Thanks for your comments.
Do you drive? If so have you found out that petrol stations over Accra discriminate the Gas for employment?

Look at Kasapreko Company, making good business on the soil of Accra. The owner thinks ...
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Thanks for your comments.
Do you drive? If so have you found out that petrol stations over Accra discriminate the Gas for employment?

Look at Kasapreko Company, making good business on the soil of Accra. The owner thinks only helping his native folks. Has he thought of giving out scholarship to some of the deprieved Gas around his outfit catchment area?

Don't you feel sorry for the Gas being discriminated in their own homeland. Even the Government is a culprit in this regard.

How will you feel if someone came to meet your grandmum in her village and started speaking a language she would not understand. Wouldn't she tell the stranger in her own local language,"Please I don't understand".

But here in Accra, the Gas are so magnanimous to non-Gas and co-exist with them, which must be naturally so.
Akwasi Boateng 12 years ago

WHO SETS THEM UP AND WHO PAYS FOR THEM?

WHO SETS THEM UP AND WHO PAYS FOR THEM?
KevinB 12 years ago

I thank you for this realistic question and I think it is not a rhetoric question and needs to be answered.

Yes, there must be someone who must set the radio station. There are very rich Gas around and quite selfish. They ...
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I thank you for this realistic question and I think it is not a rhetoric question and needs to be answered.

Yes, there must be someone who must set the radio station. There are very rich Gas around and quite selfish. They even own big companies but have no mind of helping their people.

Gas are being discriminated for far too long in their own back yard.
But they have themselves to blame.
FAIRNESS SPEAKS 12 years ago

NII KPAKPO IGNORE ENEMIES AND ENVIOUS CHARACTERS LIKE MAHONET AND AKADU MENSEMA

NII KPAKPO IGNORE ENEMIES AND ENVIOUS CHARACTERS LIKE MAHONET AND AKADU MENSEMA
Marcus Garvey 12 years ago

AS A PROUD GA MAN FROM UK I WILL OPEN A GA RADIO STATION TO BROADCAST ALL OVER THE WORLD IN GA. I HAVE ALREADY DONE SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS INVOLVING GHANA SO THIS WILL BE MY NEXT ONE.

AS A PROUD GA MAN FROM UK I WILL OPEN A GA RADIO STATION TO BROADCAST ALL OVER THE WORLD IN GA. I HAVE ALREADY DONE SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS INVOLVING GHANA SO THIS WILL BE MY NEXT ONE.
GHANABA 12 years ago

IDIOT, YOU HARDLY HEAR LUCID ENGLISH WITH STRUCTURE AND SYNTAX IN ENGLAND,YET YET THE NATIVE DON"T CRY OVER IT.IF YOU HAVE ANY BRAIN YOU SHOULD GO TO GHANA AND HELP THE POOR KIDS WITH THEIR SUB -STANDARD GRASP OF ENGLISH.BY ...
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IDIOT, YOU HARDLY HEAR LUCID ENGLISH WITH STRUCTURE AND SYNTAX IN ENGLAND,YET YET THE NATIVE DON"T CRY OVER IT.IF YOU HAVE ANY BRAIN YOU SHOULD GO TO GHANA AND HELP THE POOR KIDS WITH THEIR SUB -STANDARD GRASP OF ENGLISH.BY THE WAY THESE PEOPLE MADE ACCRA GREAT,BUT NON OF THEM SPOKE FLUENT GA,EG, NKRUMAH,GUGGISBERG,TO MENTION BUT A FEW.
Nortey 12 years ago

Yea I like the courage of Kpakpo great work I will also like u to delve into something deeper are the gas ready for this ? They don't see anything wrong with the language dying out and they must come to realisation that the ...
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Yea I like the courage of Kpakpo great work I will also like u to delve into something deeper are the gas ready for this ? They don't see anything wrong with the language dying out and they must come to realisation that the time to act is now collectively they can achieve anything so they must decide on which way forward
Barffour 12 years ago

This is uphill task to spread Ga lang. Twi/Akan is spreading becuz many Ghana people are able to communicate in it. This promotes business, advertising, information flow and bring people together easily - Twi/Akan has got tha ...
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This is uphill task to spread Ga lang. Twi/Akan is spreading becuz many Ghana people are able to communicate in it. This promotes business, advertising, information flow and bring people together easily - Twi/Akan has got that NATURAL ADVANTAGE, it costs less to communicate in it, nobody is actively promoting it really - is a natural phenomenon like English. You may not like it but you can not stop it. But you can try to spread Ga Lang. is not a very bad idea, GOOD LUCK.
Ghana ba 12 years ago

really good idea and I know others are going to insult u but never mind just do the right thing. thank U bro

really good idea and I know others are going to insult u but never mind just do the right thing. thank U bro
naa 12 years ago

God bless you laptop

God bless you laptop
naa 12 years ago

Kpakpo you have made my day today i will dance sing aleluya i can't wait for that god bless we will support you

Kpakpo you have made my day today i will dance sing aleluya i can't wait for that god bless we will support you
NII 12 years ago

HEY GUYS WE HAVE TO DO THIS, AND I BET U THE THIS TWI GUYS WILL LOOK PATHETIC.........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

HEY GUYS WE HAVE TO DO THIS, AND I BET U THE THIS TWI GUYS WILL LOOK PATHETIC.........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
Bill 12 years ago

Sir i have read all your write ups and can confirmed at a recent GA Homowo celebrated at North London on 22/9/2013 i bought a book written by QUAYE-MENSAH LARYEA. For the first time i have been able to learn all the name of t ...
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Sir i have read all your write ups and can confirmed at a recent GA Homowo celebrated at North London on 22/9/2013 i bought a book written by QUAYE-MENSAH LARYEA. For the first time i have been able to learn all the name of the months in GA and now learning the alphabets. The book is not that great but very inspirational for the contribution and the part played by the author. Some of us are prepared to contribute our little quota to such a great idea. Please don't give up the fight. God bless you
AYISAM 12 years ago

KPAKPO please check the number of primary schools in Greater Accra where Ga is taught. You will be surprised the school Heads are saying it is difficult to recruit Ga Teachers. Yet they readily engage Akan teachers to te ...
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KPAKPO please check the number of primary schools in Greater Accra where Ga is taught. You will be surprised the school Heads are saying it is difficult to recruit Ga Teachers. Yet they readily engage Akan teachers to teach Twi (Ashanti or .
I am 68 years old and have made it a rule that whenever I go out I will speak Ga and English, even though I can speak Twi and Hausa. Tell the Ga speaking youth to speak only Ga to the Akan speaking people.
Your effort is commendable
Me 12 years ago

Speak only Ga to the Akans Where will that get you? Have you forgotten that most businesses are owned by the Akans and your strategy will render a lot of the Gas jobless and alienated even in Accra?

Speak only Ga to the Akans Where will that get you? Have you forgotten that most businesses are owned by the Akans and your strategy will render a lot of the Gas jobless and alienated even in Accra?
Georgee 12 years ago

This obsession is not going to work as there is an anti Akan agenda being pursued by some Ga leaders who are supposed to know better.

This obsession is not going to work as there is an anti Akan agenda being pursued by some Ga leaders who are supposed to know better.
BENJAMIN 12 years ago

MY BROTHER GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS YOU KEEP ON WITH THE GOOD WORK.

MY BROTHER GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS YOU KEEP ON WITH THE GOOD WORK.
I. Donkor, Selden, Suffolk County, NY 12 years ago

Allotey, you have set yourself a herculean task in promoting the Ga language. It is difficult to promote a language that is spoken only in a particular area. Learning a new language is hard especially when the people around y ...
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Allotey, you have set yourself a herculean task in promoting the Ga language. It is difficult to promote a language that is spoken only in a particular area. Learning a new language is hard especially when the people around you speak a different one. English and Akan share one trait
that is they are spoken in a wide area. In Ghana five of the ten regions have Akan as the main language, of the remaining five, Akan is spoken in Greater Accra more than even Ga because of the influence of the Kwahus, the Akwapims, the Akims and the Ashantis. Ghana has taught French in our secondary schools since
colonial times because we are surrounded by French speaking countries, but up to now most Ghanaians can't speak French. Akans
make up more than 50% of the population of Ghana and they are everywhere in Ghana working. English is widely spoken because the British had colonies on every inhabitable continent, even in Europe where they
had Malta and still have Gibralter, on the tip of Spain. America did its part through movies, education and money. I appreciate the sentiment behind what Allotey is saying but realistically, it is not possible.

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