As part of the Farmers Day celebration, Joy FM, Ghana’s leading and most influential radio station, marked the day in style with all presenters speaking in their local dialect.
It was all fun on Friday, as presenters from the station served discerning listeners content in various local languages.
Favorite English speaking radio presenters/personalities showed their prowess in local languages ranging from Twi, Ewe, Hausa, Ga etc.
The day began with a hot praise and worship session from the live worship team which also brought us the sermon for the day in Twi.
Winston Amoah and producer Sammy Odame led the Super Morning Show (SMS) team to bring listeners this year’s Farmer’s Day edition.
A quite confused Winston, who obviously didn’t know which dialect to begin with, since he was fluent in more than one local language [at least Twi, Fante and Ewe], finally settled on Fante to start the morning.
However, he later spiced the show with Ewe.
“Na maara menhye ase den mpo?,” he said, to wit, “How should I even begin?”
After Winston introduced listeners to the show, Bernice Abu-Baidoo Lansah and other members of the news team also served the latest news at 6am in Twi.
Listen to an excerpt. Then, Animwaa Anim-Addo ushered listeners into the newspaper review segment in Ga.
Here’s an excerpt below. The Sports team, led by George Addo Jnr, also brought listeners a mixed edition of the Kayatic Sports review, as Sports presenters for the morning, including JoySport’s Nathan Attoh, Gary Al-Smith, and others filed reports Twi, Ga, Hausa, Mamprusi etc.Here’s a video. Winston Amoah further brought an interview with a Professor at the Linguistic Department at the University of Ghana, Legon, Prof. Kofi Agyekum popularly known as Opanyin Agyekum on the need to prioritise the speaking of our local dialects.On the show, the Professor eulogised Ghanaians languages and said these languages give a sense of belonging, as well as identity.He further urged parents to speak the Ghanaian languages with their children.The academic added that anyone who fails to teach a child his/her local language is infringing on the linguistic human rights of the child.Winston also read ads in Twi, spiced with Ewe and Fante, then, he brought listeners an interview with highlife artiste, Kofi Kinaata, also in Twi, after which the show came to an end.Hannah Odame followed with the 10am news, also in Twi.Animwaa Anim-Addo took over after Hannah with the Cosmopolitan mix in Ga, and brought her listeners […]
