The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has iterated the government’s commitment to transforming Ghana into a bilingual country by integrating the French language into its language system.
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He emphasized that various efforts are underway to achieve this goal, including introducing bilingual education for certain subjects at the elementary education level.
President Akufo-Addo made these remarks during the 60th anniversary celebration of Lycée Français International Jacques Prévert d’Accra on Friday.
“The goal of government is to ensure that we live in a bilingual Ghana where both French and English are spoken together with our indigenous languages. We’ve already begun to work towards this,” he said.
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Catherine Dauer, the Principal of Lycée Français International Jacques Prévert d’Accra, commended the school’s academic accomplishments and highlighted the collaborations it is forging with other institutions.
“I am very proud to be the principal of Jacques school. It is something beautiful because we have a lot of students here, around 700 and each student that is coming from Ghana or all around the world are part of a very big network like the AFC which is the French Agency for French Language in foreign countries.”
“So indeed, in the world, we have around 555 schools and there is a link between each school. And as a French school, we also develop a lot of partnerships with Ghanaian schools or American schools,” Dauer stated.
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