The National Council for Curriculum Assessment has stated that the divisive textbooks that have been criticized for their representation of Ewes have not been accepted for use in classrooms.
The council had previously requested Badu Nkansah Publications, one of the book’s publishers, to withhold its book, which was noted to include a song depicting Ewe identity.
“In each of these books and others discovered on social media, the authors make inappropriate references to personalities and ethnic groups which are deemed unfortunate distasteful and are in contradiction with NaCCA’s Book Submission Guidelines,” the council said its most recent statement on the matter.
The foregoing books are also not classified on the council’s website alongside other academically accepted books.
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It again assured that it has met with one other publication responsible for one of the flagged books, Golden Publication, “and has asked them to withdraw all the unapproved offending books stated and any other from the market and submit copies for assessment and approval which they have complied with.”
“Additionally the publishers have been asked to issue an unequivocal apology through the electronic, print and social media,” the statement added.
Members of the Ewe ethnic community took to social media to criticize the books’ content, pointing out prejudices.
North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has asked the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, to respond to an urgent query in Parliament.
The novels, he said, were “bigoted.”
Source: ATLFMNEWSROOM
