Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Abla Dzifa Gomashie has supported calls for a policy to make teaching Ga language in schools in Accra compulsory.
Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Naa Ashorkor on Thursday, September 11, 2025, the Minister noted that it is the duty of the indigenes of the Ga land to preserve the language.
“I think that you cannot force anybody to speak a language they don’t want to speak but we also must admit that the indigenes, the Ga people must speak it themselves,” she stated.
She argued that if the indigenes of the Ga land forsake their language and prefer other languages, it make sit difficult to protect the fading of the Ga language.
“But if you leave it (the Ga language) for other people’s languages, you can’t be fighting in that same space to make it compulsory. So let’s own it,” she entreated.
According to Gomashie, schools should be required to teach Ga if there is a policy in place to make sure it is widely spoken and taught to improve upon the language.
“I do agree that if the policy is to improve upon the language and spoken amongst the people and it becomes a thing that schools are to teach, then in Ga land, teachers must teach Ga,” she said.
“If you love to speak your Ewe because your father is Ewe, that’s your choice. But if you don’t speak it to me, you can’t force me to speak it to you,” she remarked.
