Students of Achimota Anglican Junior High School (JHS) have participated in a day’s storytelling workshop aimed at promoting the Ga language and encouraging its use among young people.
The event, organized by the Culture and Tourism Unit of the Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly (ONMA) in collaboration with the Municipal Education Culture Unit, provided an opportunity for students to read and engage with various storybooks written in the Ga language.
The initiative forms part of efforts by the Municipal Assembly to strengthen the teaching and learning of the local language.
The event comes days after the Assembly through the Culture and Tourism Unit donated several Ga reading materials to the Anumle Cluster of Schools.
Speaking at the programme held on Thursday October 29 2026 , the Head of the Assembly’s Culture and Tourism Unit, Madam Georgina Akambasi, emphasized the importance of preserving and promoting the Ga language.
She noted that names and languages played significant roles in giving people their identity, stressing the need for concerted efforts to sustain the language.
“We have to promote the Ga language…this is necessary because it is part of our identity” she said.
The Ga teacher at Achimota Anglican JHS, Mr. Saviour Agronah, described the initiative as timely, saying it would create awareness about the importance of the language and encourage students to appreciate their cultural identity.
He expressed concern about the declining interest in learning the Ga language, noting that initiatives of that nature could help reverse the trend.
According to him, continuous engagement and support for students would help improve their interest and produce positive results.
Mr Agronah said the workshop would also motivate students to take their Ga lessons seriously, particularly as it demonstrated that stakeholders were interested in monitoring and supporting their progress.
He further endorsed calls for scholarship schemes and other incentives for students and teachers who pursued the study and teaching of the Ga language.
He explained that the number of Ga teachers in the education system continued to decline, partly because some teachers who previously taught the subject had switched to other disciplines.
Mr. Agronah also observed that many teachers currently teaching Ga were from other ethnic backgrounds, while some Ga people appeared reluctant to take up the subject.
He said providing scholarships and other incentives could encourage more people to pursue courses in the Ga language and increase the number of qualified teachers.
He called for sustained efforts to promote the language in schools, saying such interventions were necessary to preserve the Ga people’s cultural identity for future generations.
Source:onma.gov.gh
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson AD IIB
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