Language policy in Ghana

This article, Promotion of Ghanaian languages must be prioritised now (21/04/2007) by Ayuure Kapini Atafori, is an older one from the Statesman Online (Ghana) but it does give background to the language policy debate in Ghana. The article concludes that:

The application of the languages in the mass media is recommendable for the promotion of Ghanaian languages. Thus, the production and dissemination of radio and TV programmes in the languages will be worthwhile. The production of films, newspapers, magazines, novel and other books in the languages will assist to promote them. Encouraging the use of the languages in the performing arts is useful for promoting them.

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