Benin: Group Makes Case for Edo Language in Schools

[Francis Hult]

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Group Makes Case for Edo Language in Schools
>>From Adibe Emenyonu in Benin, 09.30.2009


The Benin Cultural Heritage Centre (BCHC), a non-governmental
organisation has canvassed the introduction of Edo Language and
culture in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools in the
state, warning that the language would go into extinction if urgent
steps were not taken. The organisation said said it had put in place a
programme to facilitate the immediate training of 3,000 Edo Language
teachers to effect teaching of the language in both primary and
secondary schools. The President, Dr. Roland Ehigiamusoe, who
disclosed this at a forum in Benin , said it had consulted the Edo
Language department of University of Benin and the College of
Education Ekisdolor , as well as Edo People in Diaspora to ensure that
the language was taught in schools across the state. He advised
parents of Edo State origin to refrain from speaking English language
to their children or wards at home, saying, this ugly trend made the
group to subscribe to the compulsory teaching of the language in all
primary and secondary schools in the state.

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