By Charles Tawiah
Nyinahin (Ash) March 20, GNA – Teachers and school children in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti region have been urged to learn and identify themselves with their culture and traditions.
This will help them to understand their origin, history and nature as well as protect their cultural identity in the future.
Ms Ama Adwubi Asafu-Adjaye, the District Director of Education, who made the call, said it was important for school children to keep themselves abreast with their traditional foods, music, clothes and other things that made them unique as people.
She was speaking at a durbar organized by the directorate at Nyinahin as part of activities marking the Ghana heritage month and the 68th anniversary of Ghana.
As part of the programme, all school children and teachers in the 142 basic schools in the district went traditional by wearing their traditional clothes and serving traditional foods at the schools.
Ms Asafu-Adjaye pointed out that the wearing of traditional clothes and the preparing of traditional foods were designed to purposely serve as teaching methods for the pupils to watch, hear and personally feel the experiences to help boost their understanding.
“We want the pupils and staff to be abreast with their history, food and traditions of life,” she stated.
She urged the pupils to listen, keep and practice the teachings to get nurtured with their origin and nature in order to protect themselves from foreign adulteration of their cultural identities.
Ms Asafu-Adjaye said the programme would guide the pupils to learn about the history and cultural practices in their communities and the country as a whole.
Among the activities performed at the event were traditional food and drinks preparation and their consumption, traditional singing and dancing, recitals of local poems, wearing of traditional cloth and hats, among others.
Nana Oti Boa-Duah, Akwamuhene of Nyinahin, who chaired the function, commended the education directorate for designing the programme to prepare the pupils to understand their culture and traditions, while preparing to assume traditional leadership roles in the future.
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