The government’s commitment to integrating French into Ghana’s linguistic framework and turning the country bilingual has been reaffirmed by President Nana Akufo Addo.

He emphasized that many efforts are underway to achieve this goal, including the introduction of bilingual education in select elementary school subjects.

President Akufo-Addo made these remarks on Friday during the Lycée Français International Jacques Prévert d’Accra 60th anniversary celebration.

“The goal of government is to ensure that we live in a bilingual Ghana where both French and English are spoken together with our indigenous languages. We’ve already begun to work towards this,” he stated.

The principal of the Lycée Français International Jacques Prévert d’Accra, Catherine Dauer, highlighted the collaborations the school is forging with other establishments in addition to praising the academic accomplishments of the school.

“I am very proud to be the principal of Jacques school. It is something beautiful because we have a lot of students here, around 700 and each student that is coming from Ghana or all around the world are part of a very big network like the AFC which is the French Agency for French Language in foreign countries.”

“So indeed, in the world, we have around 555 schools and there is a link between each school. And as a French school, we also develop a lot of partnerships with Ghanaian schools or American schools,” she stated.