[EDLING:2144] Ghana: We need diversity in local language radio

[Francis M. Hult]

The Statesman

08/12/2006

We need diversity in local language radio

Yesterday, The Statesman carried a special report on the effect of local 
language radio on our children's educational development; and particularly, the 
increasing wedge it appears to be driving between children from rural and 
poorer urban areas, where functionally illiterate parents tend to listen to 
Ghanaian language channels, and those children from middle class families with 
good-English-speaking parents, who listen to the English radio stations.

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