Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten

the first person to receive a doctorate in the Twi language

Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten is a Ghanaian media practitioner and the former Head of the Akan-Nzema Department of the College of Languages Education, Ajumako Campus of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana.She is the first person to receive a doctorate degree in the Twi language, one of the varieties of Akan.

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  • It has proven that if you learn your mother tongue you get to know the basic tenets of the Ghanaian culture which frowns on engaging in open insults or character assassination, something we see in our political space now.
  • It is common to see some politicians, presenters and other dignitaries trading insults on air, forgetting that children are equally listening and might pick the indecent Twi Language spoken on air.
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