Language was powerful and delicate — it can make and unmake… - Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten

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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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Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten is a Ghanaian media practitioner and the former Head of the Akan-Nzema Department of the College of Languages Education, Ajumako Campus of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. She is the first person to receive a doctorate degree in the Twi language, one of the varieties of Akan.

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Alternative Names: Dr. Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten

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We have allowed the infiltration of alien cultures and that is destroying ours which frowns on insults. So children lack a deep appreciation of the local language, when to speak, how to speak it and the occasion to present it.

They were only interested in passing derogatory remarks against their political opponents as though they were enemies.

We can start from somewhere by making Ghanaian languages compulsory subjects from the kindergarten (KG) to the senior high school (SHS) level.

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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