Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh Quotes

In the current dispensation that the University of Cape Coast is championing the entrepreneurship drive, students need to add value to themselves by gaining both hard and soft skills necessary to ensure their holistic moulding into responsible citizens.

The professor of language said it had gone so bad that the Speaker himself had to use "unparliamentary" language to address unparliamentary comments.

Those with legitimate power, including those with academic, legal, political and media authority, must understand that power was transient, fragile and must be used wisely.

Discourse was socially prescribed, and that it was important for all to understand the context and the people, and be decorous in the use of language.

I attended public schools yet I dared to challenge myself to do my utmost without considering where I was coming from and the private schools my mates attended.

I reiterated the need for the students to aim at becoming economically independent, especially women, before venturing into life-long commitments such as marriage.

The Human Library is a library of people where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books and have conversations with them tapping into their experiences.

I also expressed worry that Ghanaians had negative perceptions about our language, it was obvious that as a country we were headed towards an ethno-linguistic identity crisis.

Language had been used to emphasise the "us" versus "them" which painted others negatively and “ourselves positively”, a situation which was impacting negatively on national cohesion and development.

Language had been used in different contexts by persons I describe as legitimate power holders to often manipulate others through discourses, often for selfish gains.

I describe current national discourses as worrying, indecent, manipulative, controlling and lacking decorum. Use ‘powers’ wisely

We claim we are Africans, but we respect those who speak English in our schools, describing others as local, when the language is not our birth language.

focusing on academic sustainability would help produce competent academic staff for universities to create sustainability in their countries and the continent.

I encourage the students to exude traits of commitment, diligence, respect, perseverance, curiosity, and responsibility to reach their desired peaks in life.

Studies indicated that some Ghanaian students did not speak even one Ghanaian language, explaining that schooling had a way of making people speak English to ignore and look down on their language.