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When language is colonised

DONKOR Long after political independence, Ghana still wrestles with a subtler inheritance: the dominance of foreign languages over native tongues. On the dawn of 6th March 1957, as Kwame Nkrumah and ...
The recent directive by the Ministry of Education that Ghanaian languages should be used as the medium of instruction in all ...
The history of language and education in Africa cannot be separated from the colonial project. British colonial education was ...