Communications Member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in the Upper East Region, Richard Adongo, says, the country’s educational curriculum developers’ should prioritize Ghanaian authors over foreign authors of the country’s history be taught in schools.
.As Ghanaians observed 4 August as Founders’ Day, Mr. Adongo, appealed that, the country’s curriculum must give credence to Ghanaian historians for studies, instead of relying on foreign historians whose works projected Ghana negatively.
Speaking on A1 Radio’s Daybreak Upper East, Mr. Adongo, opined that, scholars and historians who by standards were not Ghanaians and contributed little to the well-being of the country were the ones that have occupied the country school’s curriculum and have contributed to the messes its face.
“Today is a day of reflections. I remembered when I was in school back at the University for Development Studies; we used to do a lot of history lessons back then. I remember one of the tropical books we used to study was Ghana and the Rawlings factor by Kevin Shillington, Roland James Moxon, and the rest and if one looks at all these names they do not sound Ghanaian yet we were forced to study these people.
The question is who are those writing these books for us? So, I hope to encourage that as we celebrate or observed this day we should begin thinking of how to study and appreciate our own historians. Let us document our history”
Mr. Adongo, added that, those who wrote the history of Ghana and were not Ghanaians really did little or added their own feelings to what students are studying today in history schools.
“Remember those days there were some professors wrote about Africa where they said Africans’ brain sizes were not bigger than that of their oracles. Looking at all these books the authors were rather hash on Africans or deemed to discredit us. So as we observed this day we should begin giving light to our historians and the school curriculums should allow their pieces to be used.”
He, however, called on the Ghanaian youth to begin seeking and digging the historical lane of the country and stop reading books whose authors were not Africans yet wrote pieces that focused on projecting a negative image of the continent.
Source:|A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Moses Apiah|Ghana
