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The Oyibi Gonten Mantse, Nii Bortey Kofi Frankwa II, has urged the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, to fulfil his ‘vetting’ promise of granting scholarships to brilliant students who would show interest in studying the Ga language at the highest level.
Nii Frankwa II said the traditional authorities in the entire region had welcomed the promise as they acknowledged that the provision of scholarships would serve as an incentive to compel more students to develop interest in the language. Besides, it would help the students pursue it at the highest level to help produce teachers who would be dedicated to the teaching of the language.
Impact of Pre-independence And Post-Independence Ghanaian Theatre To Ghana’s devt
March 11, 2021
The kind of theatre that took place before Ghana’s independence was primarily the closet type.
On the basis of critical analysisand evaluation, and technically, the early Ghanaian playwrights who wrote plays for staging, were not skilful and experience enough in terms of craft for playwriting to make their works suitable for the purpose of putting them on stage for audience.
Thus, these early Ghanaian playwrights were in fact trying to imitate western playwrights whose plays they had read and studied.
Thus, their attempts to write plays designed for the stage based on the western pattern were ineffective and unsuccessful to meet the requisite standards in the art of playwriting that is tailored for staging purpose.
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