President Akufo-Addo has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to transforming Ghana into a bilingual nation by integrating the French language into its linguistic fabric.
He emphasized that several initiatives are underway to achieve this goal, including the introduction of bilingual education in select subjects at the elementary level.
President Akufo-Addo made these remarks during the 60th anniversary celebration of Lycée Français International Jacques Prévert d’Accra on Friday.
Catherine Dauer, the Principal of Lycée Français International Jacques Prévert d’Accra, commended the school’s academic accomplishments and highlighted the partnerships it is forging with other institutions.
“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 stated.
“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,” she stated.