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Oct 14, 2026
Justice Kobina AkomHOST
[laughs]
E.K. WallaceHOST
Me from Yenubi, Ewe, now Onipa Nfim.
E.K. WallaceHOST
Also, I am Ato.
E.K. WallaceHOST
Inside Achimota, say, Asenpa Sports, you are the best.
Andrews Adokwe TegoGUEST
Our language is not English.
Andrews Adokwe TegoGUEST
Our language is Ewe, is Ga, is Krobo, is Twi, is Sisala, and the rest.
Andrews Adokwe TegoGUEST
So don't put subject farmers to write in English and say that they have failed because they didn't write good English.
SarahHOST
Mm.
Afia AmoakoGUEST
Obviously, southern Ghana, we share a similar geography.
Afia AmoakoGUEST
So this palm tree in the Ashanti, it holds significance for the Ewe people who are in a different ethnic group.
Afia AmoakoGUEST
But when you go to the north of Ghana, you start to see where millet and sorghum and, um, legumes, they start to play those roles that you will see in southern Ghana.
Afia AmoakoGUEST
So, so much of the proverbs, the value systems are around, like, the baobab tree or-
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Afia AmoakoGUEST
And not just that, it's just how people are socialized to think about food here.
Afia AmoakoGUEST
So the categories, it's like fufu is fufu, banku is banku, and the difficult thing is that different cultures in Ghana place emphasis on different things.
Afia AmoakoGUEST
So the Ewe people, everything is like, well, not everything, but things that have corn end with ple.
Afia AmoakoGUEST
So it is amokple, ayikple, ewokple, jiple because it has corn, and that's how-
Esina OfiagbeduHOST
The minister explained that while AI solutions for agriculture like precision farming, weather sensing and crop disease detection already exist globally, they remain inaccessible to many Ghanaian farmers if only they speak English.
Esina OfiagbeduHOST
He said the government wants voice-enabled AI that farmers can interact with in Twi, Ga, Ewe, Dagbani and other local languages, and plans to use the same technology combined with the newly deployed 5G spectrum to deliver services like telemedicine to remote communities.
Esina OfiagbeduHOST
So that was from the Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovation, and he's tasking the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to come up with an AI, AI language model to speak Twi so that we stop relying wholly on the foreign-built one that has already been in the system.
Esina OfiagbeduHOST
And he's tasking professors, lecturers and other experts and individuals to come up with AI language model that will be able to interact or let's say interpret to farmers, traders and, you know, to people at that level so that they also have a, a fair share of how the AI actually feels like.
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Deborah AdosoHOST
Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, Julius Nikoi Kotey, announced this at the Government Accountability Series held at the Jubilee House on Monday, October twelfth.
Deborah AdosoHOST
The initiative is aimed at reducing language barriers in the driver license and process and enabling applicants to demonstrate their knowledge of road signs, traffic regulation, and safe driving practices without being disadvantaged by language.
Deborah AdosoHOST
The six languages currently available on the platform include Twi, Ga, Ewe, Dagbani, Nzema, and Hausa.
Deborah AdosoHOST
Through a translation software, applicants can now take the mandatory driving theory test in their preferred local language.
Ruth Esenam FiyagbeduHOST
Right.
Ruth Esenam FiyagbeduHOST
Ewe name, right?
speaker_1ANNOUNCER
Ewe.
Ruth Esenam FiyagbeduHOST
Ah, me dear, Ewe, Ewe names are tricky how to pronounce.
Ruth Esenam FiyagbeduHOST
[laughs] Because I'm a number nine myself.
speaker_1ANNOUNCER
Ooh, that's nice.
Naa Dedei TetteyHOST
one.
Naa Dedei TetteyHOST
I want to master the Ewe language before we get to home.
Winston AmoahHOST
You want to master it? Yes.
Winston AmoahHOST
In 10 days? Say you want to have a working knowledge of it.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Everybody speaks a different language.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Someone is fluent in Chi, someone in Gan, someone in Ewe.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We can't pick one of them and say that should be our standard language because our tribe will not agree to that.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I think as a country, we can't exactly do our way with the English.
JoshuaGUEST
Blenau.
JoshuaGUEST
Tell them in what? In Ewe.
JoshuaGUEST
Yes.
JoshuaGUEST
In French it's what? Dit.
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