GRi Arts & Culture Ghana 24 –05 - 2000

Hammah calls for reversal of cultural adulteration

 

Hammah calls for reversal of cultural adulteration

Winneba (Central Region) 24 May 2000

 

The Deputy Minister of Roads and Transport, Mr Mike Allen Hammah, has called for concerted efforts to correct the increasing cultural adulteration among the youth.

 

In a speech read for him at the inauguration of the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Cultural Committee, Mr Hammah expressed regret at the rate at which the country's youth, are meddling with foreign cultures, which are gradually over-shadowing the country's rich cultural heritage.

 

"This is the right time to devise effective strategies to arrest the wrong impression being created by the youth that perhaps, they cannot learn their own ancestors' cultures."

 

This, he noted, is detrimental since it threatens to replace their culture with foreign ones. The 18-member Committee is headed by Mr Kofi Mintah, Central Regional Chairman of the NDC.

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