School, The great Institution To Train Cultural Troops To Grace Occasions

Greetings Everyone.

One thing that keeps our identity is the strong cultural relationship we hold as a Country. When you come to our Ghanaian societies, we keep hold our culture and that differentiate us from other Countries, that gives us our identity and the way we do our things different from others.

It's a great and precious thing for us so we don't want it to wipe off from our system. As things move forward, things keep changing with time, so the need to train and teach the young generation about our Culture so that it doesn't fade out from the system. There are two areas that we teach and train the generation about our culture; and these are our "Homes and Schools." In the homes, children learn a lot through their parents who they stay with and emulate certain good things, the dos and don'ts. It's the place of child upbringing and the firsts place the child learn how to speak.

At school levels, it has been fused in the curriculum from the basic to higher institutions. It's there as core subject from the basic to second cycle, but at higher institutions students can learn as a full 4 years course and graduated for certificate. The reason being this, due to migration and most people travelling to learn culture at different places all over the world, with time they throw our culture away and adopt new culture into our Country. So the need to have graduates in Culture to teach and train the young people if our culture is fading out.

In the occasion like durbar, festivals, funeral, naming ceremony, marriage ceremony and graduations you would see our culture display. At least drumming and dancing in our local way would be portrayed to grace the occasion. In our Graduation Ceremony which just took place at University of Cape Coast like this, there was a few moment of cultural display to grace the occasion. Our drumming and dancing were used to welcome the dignities like the Chiefs, Presidents, Chancellor and Vice Chancellor during the occasion. It was such a nice celebration 🥳🎉.