President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reaffirmed his government’s dedication to making Ghana a bilingual country by incorporating the French language into its linguistic framework. He said this at the 60th anniversary celebration of Lycée Français International Jacques Prévert d’Accra, today, April 19, 2024.
He revealed that his government has already initiated plans towards achieving this dream. One of the plans, he said, is the implementation of bilingual education in some subjects at the elementary level.
“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.
It will be recalled that at the 17th summit of Organization Internationale de la Francophonia in Armenia on Friday, October 12, 2018, the president made same remarks.
Speaking at the ceremony, the principal of the school said “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.
“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.
