![]() The official language of 52 other countries, English is robust, dynamic and international and much is (deservedly) made of how speaking it gives Ghanaians an edge in our increasingly competitive world. However, the tongue we teach our children and write our laws in is one we inherited from the last of our colonial masters: Nii Ayikwei Parkes, DUST Magazine June 2010 “ People stop apologizing for who we are and start to write language the way we speak it…” I try to tell people to look at slang in English novels… People still write quite stiffly – in a very ‘Bronte sisters’ type of language – which is not the right costume for the Ghanaian experience. “ I’ve been quite worried that – because of the lack of libraries – people haven’t been aware of the evolution of the English language.
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