The Municipal Language Director for Ga East Municipal Assembly, Mercy Naa Oyoe Quartey, has stressed the significance of mother languages as a means of connecting with one's heritage.
Speaking at a Ghana Reads Initiative event to mark the 2025 International Mother Language Day on Friday, February 28, at ROCHMA School, she urged students to take pride in speaking their local languages as a way of building a bond with their heritage. "Yes, our languages are very important to us.
Why?
Because these various languages, when we use them and read them, give us a special mother tongue.
