General News of Friday, 5 October 2018
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2018-10-05
Educationist and renowned playwright, Ama Ata Aidoo
Educationist and renowned playwright, Ama Ata Aidoo has called for the immortalization of prominent statesmen and women like the late Kofi Annan and V.C.R.A.C Crabbe.
According to Ama Ata Aidoo, educative programmes like essay writing should be instituted to educate children and adult citizens on the exploits of such exemplary Ghanaians. An initiative of this nature, she believes, would help ensure that their memories and great feats will remain imprinted in the minds of generations.
“We must institute some kind of programmes whereby children beginning from primary will be instructed about them, encouraged to write essays about these people. We have to find a way of making the memory of their great achievements last for us as a country, as a continent and the world,” she said.
Though she encouraged the organizing of state burials for renowned Ghanaians, she cautioned that the inability to immortalize such individuals would only render government and Ghanaians funeral experts.
“You know, people like him and Kofi Annan, it is okay for us to give them huge national funerals. But we shouldn’t just give them huge national sendoffs and simply go home and relax, and do nothing. Otherwise then, we only become experts on doing funerals,” she added.
A state burial was organized for the late V.C.R.A.C Crabbe, aged 94, on Thursday, October 4, 2018, at the Accra International Conference Centre, following his demise on Friday, September 7, 2018, after a short illness.
Justice Crabbe was born on October 29, 1923, at Ussher town in Accra and had his early education at the Government Junior and Senior Boys Schools in Accra.
He attended Accra Academy for his Cambridge Junior and Senior School certificates and went to London to study Economics at the City of London College Moorgate from 1950 to 1952.
The late retired Supreme Court judge, Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles (V.C.R.A.C) Crabbe, before his death was a Professor of Law at Mountcrest University College in Accra.