Voltarians asked to identify with their culture
Voltarians asked to identify with their culture
Asotwe
(Ashanti Region) 18 October 2001-Togbe S.K. Fugah, Chief of the Anloga
Community in Kumasi has advised people from the Volta Region residing in other
parts of the country not to abandon their culture and traditional practices
because they are living outside their hometowns.
He
said they should rather identify closely with their culture by teaching their
children the culture, practices and dialect of their areas.
Togbe
Fugah gave the advice at separate meetings held between the Ashanti Regional
Voltarians Co-ordinating Council (VCC) Executives Committee and members of the
local VCC at Asotwe, Anloga, Aboabo and Sokoban.
The
meetings were to enable the Regional VCC to organise more local branches in
communities where the VCC does not exist and to strengthen existing ones as
part of preparations towards a Regional V.C.C. Congress scheduled for October
20, this year in Kumasi.
Togbe
Fugah, who is also the Regional Chairman of the V.C.C., however, advised that
while maintaining their culture, they should also recognise and respect the
cultural laws and values of their host communities.
Mr
Young Ghandhi Atippoe, Organiser of the V.C.C., also advised the members to
strive to contribute their quota to development of the communities in which
they reside by participating actively in communal labour.
GRi…/
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