The historian provides a compelling defense of indigenous knowledge, yet his focus on Twi highlights the ongoing struggle to balance ethnic pride with national unity. It is a sharp look at how language and symbols remain the primary battlegrounds for cultural identity.
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Ashanti Historian Schools Hon. Dzifa Gomashie Over Twi Language & Kente BrouhahaAdded:
This time the Asante bloggers know They are not giving up on Because I Now it's me sometime ever. With the tree language Now these two videos are normal reality too the recent When it comes to Asante and all history and their culture and all that.
Now back with a fire on the Kente issue the history of Kente in comparison There is something educating about this video because what the difference are and that Asante Kente and the ever And in fact this is the first time I make a comment realize to say When it comes to Asante Kente they use symbols and you coded.
But then when you go to the Volta and you play I say the message is plain as in they are speaking about But the Asante Kente know and you coded It's difficult to decode and understand what exactly they are talking about. In fact This video educating and the direction But you the language issue where and the tree >> We are confined to the tree language alone. Let's say say be according to almost say honorable Remember to any language She has shot herself in the foot.
Manka They were expecting But then you were using English. You acknowledge you are comfortable and may your official language in Ghana.
I'm not saying Ghana language the language and then your official in your national language Which is my number one.
The tree language now It is the most easiest language so far Ghana language is Ghana.
technicalities and all that naturally They are weaving in a a related to the tree language. So it is easy for people to study. And it is easy for people to adapt to it.
and I get any prominence out.
There is no way we can fight it. I bring the tree language NOW AND DOWN.
PHYSICAL FORCES >> I KNOW MOMMY WHERE IS HE?
I DON'T CARE.
MEANS I DON'T KNOW WITHIN THE COUNTRY GHANA.
THE FORMATION OF OUR WEATHER S U a s u STANDS FOR SUE, CRY NO, IT'S NOT SOMETHING I DID.
BY NATURAL POWERS CAUSE ON YOUR MINISTER FOR TOURISM, CULTURE AND WHAT? ARTS.
YEAH. ALSO MEANS SOLOMON.
Also means FOR ME. BECAUSE >> [screaming] >> THIS ASPECT ON THE MINISTER MINISTER OF JUSTICE HERE MINISTER OF JUSTICE HERE MINISTER OF JUSTICE HERE What's the meaning?
HE >> HE CARRY ME.
PERSONAL I DON'T THINK YOU RESPECT ME.
>> [laughter] >> WE ARE HERE TO JUDGE.
THAT'S THE POINT BECAUSE SO, IT'S IT'S languages that are spoken in 1 2 3, celebrated as the crazy exposed If you are not exposed to or not exposed to it. So, if we say for instance Ghana, maybe tree is mostly spoken. Some people say, "Oh, let's just make tree our national language." Doesn't You don't think that's >> it would be trampling on the sensibilities of other people and their cultures and trampling any idea You need to watch them.
I need you to watch them. What did you watch them?
watch them WATCH THEM WATCH THEM WATCH THEM UP-TO-DATE LANGUAGE AS AN OFFICE BUT WHAT SAY YOU USE ENGLISH BUT MY MAN THAT THEY SAY AS OFFICE LANGUAGE IN GHANA ENGLISH IS the So, where are you going? So, if I find you English is the dinner time.
I saw my camera now.
I saw my camera now.
IT WILL BE THE PERSON SO, THIS IS MY MAN WILL SAY MINISTER WILL SAY WHAT ABOUT THE TV AND WE ARE LAZY?
I'm for me.
SO, I'M FIGHTING THIS BECAUSE I MINISTER WILL SAY WHAT ABOUT THE COMPANY AND WE ARE LAZY?
>> LAZY OR LECTURE I THINK YOU SAY NATURAL FORCES OH, YES.
IF YOU SAY any white boy, black by naturally It you wake up and say, "Within this land there's a force to be aware And yet, I sent the key.
>> Mhm.
Mhm.
AUTHENTIC FORCES IS THEY HERE.
MHM.
INTO FREE LANGUAGE IS A WHAT? A mother tongue.
Ghana. Ghana.
Are you insulting for us?
Seven language English is the same.
Seven language Seven languages, YOU KNOW. YEAH, DO ABOUT THIS TO DO THE ANOTHER COUNTRY.
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. Office language.
I DIDN'T WANT THEM.
INTO THIS THE COURT.
OH, YES. YEAH, YEAH.
YEAH.
YEAH, YEAH.
SIR, FORCE OF natural forces.
Natural way.
See, and the natural forces for weed country Ghana here.
I don't see the way.
And my say what I go brag that if you say Kasa, and you will NOT GO HOME.
LANGUAGE AND YOU WILL NOT GO HOME.
And the language and what they know, you will say say you will not go home.
I see you will not go home. You will not go home.
Different from any other man.
I know ANY OTHER MAN.
AND I CAN SAY MY CRAZY ANY OTHER MAN.
But Asante Twi, any other man, any other man, IF YOU SAY BY FORCE IT IS also what they say any other man this year. Any other man.
Anything up to date.
In Ghana, ANY OTHER MAN.
IF YOU SAY I GIVE WHICH YOU SAY ANY OTHER MAN. TRY SAY SAY A FA A CERTAIN LANGUAGE HERE. YEAH, if you say A TWI UH MAN, MAN, ANOTHER type of baby I make a man. Make me a powerful I say my boom so make I see plenty there. Any other man go go there. Any other man.
I'M A CELEBRITY. THEY ARE I HAPPY.
CELEBRITY I HAPPY OH.
ASANTE FOUR, FRAFRA FOUR, EWE FOUR go share.
WHAT YOU SAY? OH, MY ONLY SAY GET TWI NO.
BECAUSE ENGLISH IS there or a dominator by nature.
I think it's a point.
English will work.
English is your official language, but because of say until Name of almost someone native language, you know, as the official language.
It's the same thing that happened again.
language English office language. So, IF YOU GO TO HOSPITAL OR BE AND SAYING ENGLISH Majority of Ghanaians in English.
But at our hospital fake degree no English one okay. See baby I don't Nipe kubiano if you want to man a center there [clears throat] and to nipe kubiano epe kwan biso ayentare nentuma or different I know they want and I break on the nuna one hour we see car one hour would be out there one hour would be no as soon as I get in here February so I do you want I could maybe be asking and to be out there baby I don't know I will come back some money no one to man so I assume I sent it for so I come back some money no one to one uh baby I need for baby I don't say uh uh before I don't say yeah the one before I don't say yeah the number four I don't say uh yeah the number six I don't know one for no more come back some money no one to one I I didn't nothing there and to be out there so the same in no one to one I am a I was a new phone into NASA 24 any and a war a year a year a year a bomb ring I see naturally in the contain any other kind contain to my contain contain into contain I found a walking thing and now a I found something and now I found a I know it's you know a I found a new way almost a day by day only play and I feel white and black a who saw her or different colors into you come out I know it's a into in my 1721 contain and and to my a war and a dream car a dream car craft a snow no more and and you have no everything Thomas Edward Bridge a best friend of the 1817 name of the man or not >> A year mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashanti Ashanti no and E E I A new power money came to a war money money A colonial time no A year mean road at once a quarter mile and no A new sports car A year different On the draw giant A day a Facebook page with through reading creepy with GBC Facebook page five times meanwhile different from Asante 40 So, what why are people trying to just destroy the impression EPR European and this Some represent in Ghana. Okay, one of the biggest achievement Asante UNESCO From there now getting the impression say any can We are the people who know uh 7.8 December 1998 edition of uh the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper. Uh actual article to explain how I can teach you good course any Uh a beer at Motown school 1927 or baby no.
1930 or no find out to know.
Any more more uh uh you want to say you want to make a matter of the same unit can take And they are yeah um a year ethnopsychologist I don't know but 1930 more more and now NASA if you want to move free vote a whole lot Do you know what part you want to say?
or no a year a day before Mariana Thomas Edward Bodley uh Asante Museum of Mankind a war landing I will be out there all night and they Asante free [clears throat] last year a black and white old parliament well as I'm supposed to say something about Right honorable Abang Babin everybody permission for that matter as well as my mother can do before echo ball parliament.
Uh oh my 10 10 intangible world heritage from the account. And to about a country in Ventura. Meanwhile it was the same group of people last month when I'm precious and you say continue to do that.
Uh Saturday I'm going to pass a more shifty idea and to be out according to my beautiful for the animal and for me like Same. Uh will be a DB now.
>> [clears throat] >> But the Ghana has it.
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