The government of Ghana has announced that all teachers must now use local languages as the main medium of instruction at the basic school level. Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu revealed the new ...

The growing national conversation on the structure of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), sparked by concerns ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...

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 ...

Ghana has failed to break into the top five English-speaking countries on the continent, despite its long-standing reputation as a West African education hub and its self-proclaimed status as the ...

A professor in International Education and Development, Professor Kwame Akyeampong, has called for a fundamental shift in how ...

Challenging common myths shows that language learning is more accessible, engaging, and beneficial than many people think.

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 ...