By Naa Shormei Odonkor
Kumasi, Mar 11, GNA-Ghanaian students have been urged to identify themselves with their tradition and uphold their rich cultural heritage.
Ms Araba Essuman, Deputy Director of the Ashanti Regional Centre for National Culture (CNC), who made the call, said it was important for Ghanaian youth to identify their culture, which defined them as people.
She was speaking during a visit to the Armed Forces Senior High Technical School in Kumasi, as part of the CNC’s school tour initiative, to promote Ghana’s cultural heritage in Ghanaian schools.
Teachers and some students were beautifully adorned in traditional clothes to showcase the various Ghanaian ethnic groups they represented.
Among the activities engaged in were cultural dance performances, poetry recitals, education on male and female ways of wrapping the Ghanaian traditional clothes and others.
Ms Essuman said culture included food, clothes, language, music, dance, games, marriage rites, naming ceremony, festivals and tourist sites among others.
To ensure the sustenance and promotion of the Ghanaian culture, she noted that students were targeted by the CNC for some years now.
Ms Essuman observed that the young generation were missing out on the rich Ghana cultural practices including entertainment, as they were now focused on surfing the internet.
“In the olden days, we used to sit outside in the evening with our family to listen to folktales.
Now we are too focused on our phones,” she said.
Ms Essuman encouraged teachers and students to go back to the Ghanaian cultural heritage as it instilled good values and morals in all who embraced it.
This, she said would sustain and promote Ghana’s cultural heritage that gave identity and definition to its people.
March has been set aside by the government as Ghana Month to remember the sacrifices made by the forefathers to gain independence for the country.
Hence, the Ghanaian rich cultural heritage is promoted in March to ensure the sustainability of Ghana’s culture amidst the advent of globalization.
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