Mr. Sanortey Dikpetey, a lecturer and the immediate past Department Exams’ Officer for the northern languages known as the Deparment of Gur-Gonja Education at the UEW College of Languages Education, Ajumako, has underscored the importance of studying Dagaare or Gonja as a course in the University.
He believes indigenous languages are less appreciated as compared to other courses of study though they remain very relevant.
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“Effective communication is the basis of everything we do as a society. It is important that people appreciate indigenous languages like Dagaare and Gonja within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” he explained.
Mr. Sanortey Dikpetey made this known in a sensitization programme on Yagbon Radio in Bole, where he encouraged qualified applicants on the need to study any of the two languages as a course at the UEW College of Languages Education in the Department of Gur-Gonja Education, Ajumako. His sensitization covers parts of the Savannah and the Upper West Region.
He mentioned that, studying Dagaare or Gonja only, with Linguistics, or English, French and German come along with employment opportunities such as translators, news casters, writers and book developers, program co-ordinators , language consultants and researchers, bilingual secretaryship among others.
