{"id":445998,"date":"2017-12-11T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/11\/abandon-the-use-foreign-names-akunu-dake\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:16:16","slug":"abandon-the-use-foreign-names-akunu-dake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/11\/abandon-the-use-foreign-names-akunu-dake\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandon the use foreign names &#8211; Akunu Dake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 11 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Ezekiel Fiifi Koomson<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-11<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/29532827.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akunu Dake.jpeg\" title=\"Akunu Dake.jpeg\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Akunu Dake wants Ghanaians to stick to the local names<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513019776_781_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Development, Co-convener of the Ghana culture forum, Mr. Akunu Dake have urged Ghanaians to abandon the use foreign names and stick to the local ones.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering the keynote address at the annual general meeting of the Ghana book publishers association at the M plaza hotel in Accra, he stated that it\u2019s about time Ghanaian parents abandoned the adopted culture of naming their children after foreigners because it\u2019s gradually making us lose our identity as Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>He said hardly would find a \u201cwhite man\u201d naming his child after names such as Kofi, pokua etc yet we take pride in naming our children after \u201cwhites\u201d which is a great worry to us as a country and our culture. He also stated that the book publishing industry in Ghana has not grown to proportionately match the literate population with a growing literacy rate of over 60percent since the 1980s because of the ready educational market. He bemoaned that text book production has become the norm for publishing houses of Ghana with various cost and other reasons tend to print their books outside which is very bad.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the AGM, Proff Atukwei Okai also advised Ghanaian writers and publishers to develop the habit of reading more because the public feed directly on the books they publish therefore if they wrong the public also goes astray.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Director of creative arts, responsible for programmes &amp; projects at the Commission for National Culture, Socrate Sarfo appealed to writers, movie producers and the creative arts industry to document the achievements of our past heroes and also advised students in our various tertiary institutions to start writing articles about our leaders and heroes because that\u2019s also a way of preserving our culture since the future generation will also have the opportunity to read about such heroes and learn something important from their achievements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/71341473.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 56 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 11 December 2017 Source: Ezekiel Fiifi Koomson 2017-12-11 Akunu Dake wants Ghanaians to stick to the local names Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Development, Co-convener of the Ghana culture forum, Mr. Akunu Dake have urged Ghanaians to abandon the use foreign names and stick to the local ones. 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