In recent years I have observed something deeply troubling in Ghanaian homes and communities. I have seen children under the age of ten who cannot understand or speak their own local language. A child ...

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Clement Apaak, has reaffirmed that English and French will remain integral to Ghana's education system.

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a research team led by the Potsdam psycholinguists Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan and Paul ...

For two weeks in December 2025, the Kusaal language came alive on phones, laptops, and social media feeds, as young people and elders joined an online campaign to promote one of Ghana’s indigenous ...

The School of Languages at the University of Ghana has called for urgent and coordinated action to safeguard Ghana's indigenous languages from decline.

Another International Mother Language Day has been celebrated with well-intended messages purported to spur indigenous ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...