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The French ambassador to Ghana, Mrs Anne Sophie AV?, has said she is<br>
flattered by President Nana Akufo-Addo?s consideration of French as a<br>
second language for Ghana.<br>
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In March this year, Ghana?s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional<br>
Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, said the decision by the<br>
anglophone West African country to use French as a second language was a<br>
major concern of the government of Ghana, in line with national priorities.<br>
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She reiterated plans by the Ghanaian government to include the promotion of<br>
the learning of French in basic schools and across all other levels of<br>
learning, as part of a general reform of Ghana?s education sector.<br>
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Addressing the opening session of the 2019 La Francophonie week in the<br>
Ghanaian capital, Accra, themed: ?Say it in French...please?, Ms Botchwey,<br>
at the time, said Ghana signed the Linguistic Pact with La Francophonie for<br>
improved technical support and capacity building for the teaching and<br>
learning of French in 2018.<br>
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A move, which, she said, marked the start of a historical process, aimed at<br>
improving regional integration through the development of the French<br>
language across the country.<br>
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?We believe that the extensive teaching and learning of French will inure<br>
to the benefit of Ghana as we are bordered by three Francophone countries;<br>
namely, Togo, Burkina Faso and La Cote d?Ivoire?, the Foreign Affairs<br>
Minister stressed.<br>
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She intimated that prioritising the French language in Ghana has become<br>
even more necessary now so as to further enhance relations for better<br>
cooperation at all levels with the country?s Francophone partners.<br>
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According to her, the government?s strong participation in this year?s<br>
Francophonie week celebrations also lends credence to the continued desire<br>
of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for Ghana to become a full Member<br>
of La Francophonie, since becoming an Associate Member in 2006.<br>
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She recalled President Akufo-Addo?s bold commitment at the last Summit of<br>
the La Francophonie held in Erevan, Armenia, in October 2018 to the<br>
organisation.<br>
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?To that end, the President has appointed a Senior Presidential Staffer and<br>
French scholar, Dr Stephen Adawen Syme, as the Focal Person for the<br>
coordination of La Francophonie activities in Ghana to ensure a seamless<br>
transition?, Ms Botchwey told the gathering.<br>
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Speaking on *Accra FM* Thursday, 9 May 2019 about the move, the French<br>
ambassador said: ?[Nana Akufo-Addo] is the president, so, he can make the<br>
policy he wants. I can only say I?m flattered and I think it?s great, and I<br>
can help. If he had made Spanish a second language, there?s not much France<br>
could do about it, so, at least, we?ll just accompany this policy and try<br>
and help as much as we can, sharing this national treasure that is French.?<br>
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According to AV?, Ghanaians should view the president?s initiative as a way<br>
of putting them on a higher pedestal since the majority of countries in the<br>
West African sub-region are French-speaking countries.<br>
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?In France, English is highly recommended, so, it is not completely<br>
compulsory, but if you don?t speak English, it will be hard to get a job,<br>
if you do not have a second language?, she said, adding: ?I don?t think the<br>
Ghanaian should look at it as one more compulsory or constraint or<br>
something that they have to. He?s just bringing you on a tray an asset, a<br>
plus that will make you an even stronger country in the sub-region ? that<br>
is the majority of the people in the sub-region are speaking French.<br>
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The ambassador also stated that the Ghanaian can only learn to speak French<br>
when they feel the need to learn to speak it.<br>
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?The more French you listen to, through television, through the radio, the<br>
more interested you are, and then you feel like it. You don?t teach<br>
something that people don?t want to learn, so, if they want to, they need<br>
to feel the need for it.<br>
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?That?s why I?m trying hopelessly to learn some Twi?, the French ambassador<br>
said, adding: ?Well, my Twi is awful. I want to learn to add that to my<br>
curriculum, I?m trying because I want to be respectful to the people, to be<br>
able to say a few words in Twi, so, it?s definitely the need of it that<br>
motivates you.?<br>
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Concerning her acclimatisation to Ghana, Ms AV? said her preferred Ghanaian<br>
dish is plantain and palava sauce.<br>
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?I love Ghanaian dishes but I must say I?m very keen on palava sauce. It?s<br>
all about palava sauce and plantain. If you want to make me happy, ask my<br>
friend, she?s Ghanaian, she?s fantastic and she makes the most amazing<br>
dishes. She can cook French and she cooks Ghanaian but I love your stews<br>
but I think I really, I could die for palava sauce?, she told host Nana<br>
Romeo.<br>
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A Mennonite Town in Muslim Central Asia Holds On Against the Odds<br>
The Mennonite prayer hall in Rot Front, or Red Front, Kyrgyzstan, the<br>
easternmost outpost of the Mennonite exodus from Europe.CreditMaxime Fossat<br>
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ROT FRONT, Kyrgyzstan ? Each Sunday morning, a rickety white bus wheezes<br>
down the main street of one of Christendom?s most remote and odd outposts<br>
in the Muslim world.<br>
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The bus travels only a few hundred yards but continues a long, meandering<br>
journey begun nearly 500 years ago by German-speaking Mennonite Christians<br>
fleeing persecution in Europe. Having survived the fury of the Roman<br>
Catholic Church, the Russian empire and then the Soviet Union, their<br>
community today in Central Asia is small and shrinking but, against the<br>
odds, is still hanging on.<br>
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Their principal stronghold here is the village of Rot Front, or Red Front,<br>
the Soviet-era name of a tidy, two-street settlement at the foot of the<br>
Tian Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan, a Muslim-majority nation of breathtaking<br>
natural beauty and deep poverty formed when the Soviet Union imploded in<br>
1991.<br>
An old mini-bus takes the Mennonites to the prayer house for the Sunday<br>
morning service.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New York Times<br>
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An old mini-bus takes the Mennonites to the prayer house for the Sunday<br>
morning service.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New York Times<br>
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Rot Front, formerly known as Bergtal, or Mountain Valley, is the<br>
easternmost outpost of the Mennonite exodus from Europe, which also<br>
scattered believers westward to North and South America<br>
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entirely German-speaking, dominated by religion, fighting off modern<br>
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began emigrating to Germany in the 1990s, and those left behind began using<br>
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Out of a village with more than 1,000 people, only 10 German families are<br>
left. The German bakery closed years ago and the local primary school<br>
dropped mandatory lessons in German. The teaching is now all done in Kyrgyz<br>
and Russian.<br>
Local Kyrgyz shepherds at the entrance to the village.CreditMaxime Fossat<br>
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But the Sunday morning bus helps keep alive the religious faith at the<br>
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Driven by Nikolai Pauls, an ethnic German car mechanic whose 11 siblings<br>
have now nearly all left for Germany, the bus collects worshipers ? a mix<br>
of German Mennonites and Kyrgyz converts ? from outside their homes and<br>
deposits them at the village?s biggest building, a prayer hall decorated<br>
with biblical verses in archaic versions of both German and Russian,<br>
written in Gothic script.<br>
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Irina Pauls, the bus driver?s wife and a singer in the church choir, said<br>
she and her husband had planned to move years ago for Germany but stayed<br>
put because their five children did not want to leave their friends.<br>
A Canadian Christian purchased three houses built by Germans, setting up a<br>
shelter for Kyrgyz orphans.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New York Times<br>
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A Canadian Christian purchased three houses built by Germans, setting up a<br>
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Whether to leave, she said, ?is a very painful question.?<br>
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She has often visited relatives in Germany, where nine of her own 11<br>
siblings now live, and admires German order and neatness. ?Here Kyrgyz<br>
people think we are crazy because we cut the grass,? she said.<br>
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Three of her grown children have moved to Germany, and she worries about<br>
the marriage prospects of the two daughters still in Rot Front. Mennonites<br>
rarely marry outside their faith, and while German believers sometimes<br>
marry Kyrgyz converts, Ms. Pauls said she would like her children to marry<br>
fellow ethnic Germans.<br>
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?There is still a line between us,? Ms. Pauls, 56, said. ?The Germans are<br>
on this side, the Kyrgyz on the other.?<br>
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But finding a suitable spouse for her remaining children, she said, is<br>
growing increasingly difficult as emigration drains the pool of eligible<br>
grooms and brides who share her family?s faith and speak Plautdietsch, a<br>
dialect of Low German.<br>
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The Mennonites and Amish both belong to the Anabaptist tradition, a<br>
reformation movement dating to the 1500s that rejected aspects of the<br>
established Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. They share a commitment<br>
to pacifism and simple living.<br>
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The German Mennonites who settled in Kyrgyzstan started their journey east<br>
in the early 16th century from what is now the northern Netherlands.<br>
An ethnic Kyrgyz resident of Rot Front waited for the shuttle that will<br>
take her to Sunday service.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New York Times<br>
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An ethnic Kyrgyz resident of Rot Front waited for the shuttle that will<br>
take her to Sunday service.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New York Times<br>
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After settling first in West Prussia, now part of Poland, they moved on to<br>
Russian-controlled Ukraine in the 18th century, and then to Kyrgyzstan,<br>
settling first in the west and then on rich farmland in the Chuy Valley<br>
east of the capital, Bishkek.<br>
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The original German names given their new settlements have mostly been<br>
lost. The German names that survive were imposed on towns by Moscow and<br>
given a Soviet slant, like Rot Front.<br>
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Of the approximately 100,000 ethnic Germans who lived in Kyrgyzstan when<br>
the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991, only 8,300 remain.<br>
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Old photographs of the Mennonite community in the basement of the prayer<br>
hall.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New York Times<br>
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Old photographs of the Mennonite community in the basement of the prayer<br>
hall.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New York Times<br>
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In Rot Front, the exodus to Germany has been accompanied by a wave of new<br>
arrivals, mostly Kyrgyz but also a few Westerners.<br>
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A Canadian Christian purchased three houses built by Germans, setting up<br>
shelter for Kyrgyz orphans, a guesthouse and a farm.<br>
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Wilhelm Lategahn, a non-Mennonite schoolteacher, came to Rot Front from<br>
Germany on a government program to promote the German language. He intended<br>
to stay a year or so but, nearly a decade later, is still here. He set up a<br>
small museum to honor the village?s fading German heritage.<br>
Ethnic German Mennonite youths in one of the two streets of the village.<br>
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Ethnic German Mennonite youths in one of the two streets of the village.<br>
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At the prayer hall, built in 1987 after the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev<br>
relaxed restrictions on religion, female worshipers sit on one side while<br>
their husbands, fathers and sons sit on the other.<br>
<br>
Germans and Kyrgyz mix constantly ? in prayer, at school and at work in the<br>
fields, where residents grow their food and raise cattle. They communicate<br>
mostly in Russian, the one language everyone speaks fluently.<br>
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The village also has a mosque, but it is much smaller than the Mennonite<br>
prayer hall.<br>
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After attending prayers on a recent Sunday, German and Kyrgyz children<br>
gamboled together along the main street, chattering away in Russian. Lotti<br>
Schmidt, 12, said she missed friends who had moved to Germany but still<br>
wanted her own family to stay in Rot Front.<br>
The choir rehearsing at the prayer hall.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New<br>
York Times<br>
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The choir rehearsing at the prayer hall.CreditMaxime Fossat for The New<br>
York Times<br>
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Even many of those who have left still come back regularly on visits.<br>
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Adolf Koop, who moved to Germany in 2011, still keeps the house he and his<br>
wife built in 1958 in Rot Front and recently returned with a son and<br>
son-in-law to do some repairs.<br>
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?I get so bored in Germany,? he said. ?I miss all my friends here.?<br>
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His memories of Rot Front, however, are not all rosy. His father, the head<br>
of the village?s early Soviet-era collective farm, was arrested and<br>
executed at the height of Stalin?s Great Terror in 1938.<br>
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Nazi Germany?s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 turned ethnic Germans<br>
into enemies of the people. Much of Rot Front?s adult population was sent<br>
to labor camps, leaving German children to fend for themselves, often with<br>
help from local Kyrgyz, who sheltered and fed them in the mountains.<br>
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The wartime experience broke down many of the cultural and language<br>
barriers that had previously separated ethnic Germans and the indigenous<br>
Kyrgyz population. It also made it difficult for Germans who survived the<br>
war in Rot Front to feel comfortable in Germany.<br>
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Their offspring, too, can find life in Germany problematic.<br>
<br>
Andrej Keller, a 59-year-old ethnic German who was born and raised in Rot<br>
Front, said he had tried moving to Germany in 2011, but was unable to find<br>
a job and returned to his Kyrgyz village after just 18 months.<br>
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