Rapper and onetime radio personality today in a series of tweets tabled his discomfort about the attempt by Government to make French Ghana’s second language ahead of our local dialects.
The rapper who is currently in Kumasi preparing for his My life concert responded to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration made by Shirley Ayorkor Botchbuy which confirmed that Ghana is set to adopt French as a second language.
Hear Trigmatic, ”Ppl hv died sacrificially 2 hold in high esteem our heritage. Till date dat struggle lives on n the least we could’ve done was to protect it. Why French as a second language ?This is a cultural indentation to Ghanaians.Thought @FolkloreGH says more of our folklores? #wherewedeygo”
He continued to elaborate more, citing how we clinch onto foreign things and decamp our own as the cause of lack of self-esteem and added its a poor way of growing a generation.
”We growing a generation that will believe less in themselves and more in anything foreign. This has been a very old but grand agenda and it’s still in operation. In beginning to see how the trade started? Our leaders have been part of our plight” shared by Trigmatic.
Background;
Speaking at the opening session of the 2019 La Francophonie week, Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, said Ghana’s education sector will be reformed to inculcate the learning of French.
She added that President Akufo-Addo aims to prioritise the French language in Ghana by making the country a full Member of La Francophonie.
Ghana joined the La Francophonie in 2006 and currently an Associate Member but the government has plans of making the country a full member, hence the displeasure registered by the rapper.
Ghana is bordered by three French-speaking countries, namely; Togo, Burkina Faso, and La Cote D’Ivoire but is that enough reason to want to make another foreign language our second accepted language than picking up any of the local dialects as the argument; if or not to make Twi our second language has been far-flung.
