Modern Ghana has seen the need to have a common language which will bridge the language barrier among its people. Then English was accepted as the language to do that but most people were finding it difficult to learn the English Language. English is indeed the official language but then only about half of the Ghanaian population is able to speak English fluently. The others will either understand it very well and they will not be able to fluently speak it, or they just do not understand it at all. This is a hindrance to the development of the nation Ghana since its inhabitants have difficulty communicating among themselves. This called for some selected local languages by the government to be taught in schools. They are the government sponsored languages that we had earlier learnt about. Yet, some Ghanaians due to certain perceptions were not even willing to learn the languages being taught in schools. There are numerous reasons to that but then a few of those reasons I gath...

We have learnt how most of the tribes came to be in Ghana. We have also studied some basic courtesy in some selected languages. In modern Ghana, all the tribes have learnt to stay united inorder to live in peace and in harmony. The capital city of Ghana is Accra and it was divided into ten regions, Upper-West Region, Upper-East Region, Norhern Region, Brong-Ahafo Region, Western Region, Eastern Region, Volta Region, Central Region, Ashanti Region and Greater-Accra Region. There was a move to add 6 new regions to the already existing ten regions: Western-North Region, Oti-Region, Ahafo Region, Bono East Region, Savannah Region & North-East Region. This move was proposed under the Akufo-Addo government 2016-2020. The new regions are to facilitate administration so as to speed up development in the nation but some tribes felt otherwise as they opposed that it would bring about linguistic and tribal divisions.  A referendum was held on the 27 th of December, 2018 for the affecte...