Probe Efo juju textbook influx – Africa Education Watch to National Security LISTEN 1
Africa Education Watch has called on the National Security Secretariat to probe how some primary school textbooks containing stereotypical content about Ewes, found their way onto the market in commercial quantities when they had not been approved.
“We call for further investigations by National Security to ascertain how samples of books submitted to NaCCA by the publishers and queried by same in September 2020, found their way in commercial quantities unto the Ghanaian book market in 2021”, the group said in a statement.
The National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA) said the three textbooks: “History of Ghana for Basic 6 by Golden Publications, which carries distasteful information about Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP; History of Ghana Textbook 3 by Badu Nkansah Publications, which features a song that shows the Ewes identity; Golden English Basic 4 by Golden Publications
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Relevant stakeholders in the education sector mdash; Ministry of Education(MoE), Ghana Education Service(GES), National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA) mdash; jointly discarded the old curriculum for Primary schools and subsequently implemented a new curriculum.