MP Rages Over Aki-Ola Social Studies Portrayal of Colonisation as Beneficial
The Member of Parliament for Ketu North Constituency, Eric Edem Agbana, has expressed fury after the Aki-Ola Series Social Studies Textbook for Junior High School Students outlined some positive outcomes of colonisation for Ghana.
He finds the perspective harmful and thereby the need for a review.
The lawmaker plans to formally petition the Ghana Education Service to immediately review and recall these books.
“At a time when President John Dramani Mahama is championing continental efforts toward reparations, it is deeply irresponsible to sanitise or glorify a painful chapter of our history.”
He insisted that colonisation was inhuman, a systematic violation of human rights, dignity, and identity, which has left troubling scars on the identities of Africans and Ghanaians.
“We cannot allow distorted narratives to shape our children’s minds, to whom we owe an uncompromisable duty to ensure they are educated in a way that advances not only the progress of their society but also their own worth and dignity,” he said in a statement.
He furthered, “Our education system must reflect truth, justice, and historical integrity. Not only that, but our education must also sustain a perspective of history that does not deny the past of the Ghanaian, misstate the present, and undermine the hopeful future of the Ghanaian child.”
Story by Hajara Fuseini
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