Liberty Avenue ‘2’, Saint Joseph Junior High progress in Ga quiz for basic schools

The Liberty Avenue ‘2’ Basic School and the Saint Joseph Junior High School at Adabraka in Accra on Friday, March 13, 2020 qualified for the next round of the third edition of the annual Ga quiz for basic schools in the Korle-Klottey Municipality.

The two schools displayed great wits and staying prowess to ward off stiff competition from Additrom Basic School, Adabraka Presbyterian Basic School and Amusudai Junior High School.

Themed “Speak Ga, Save Ga, Ha Wowie Ga”, the annual quiz competition aims to preserve the Ga language by enhancing its speaking among various schools in the municipality.

An initiative of the Adabraka stool in collaboration with Further System Education, the Korle-Klottey Municipality and Obonu FM, the quiz ran five rounds;

• Names of the months of the year in Ga
• Reasons for the names of the months
• Ga taboos and superstitions
• Parts of speech, and
• Spelling out of words in Ga as well as mentioning names of working tools in various work environments.

After the first section, Additrom School came first, while St Joseph won the second round, with Amusudai winning the fourth section. Liberty Avenue ‘2’ won the fifth round, however Saint Joseph School and Liberty Avenue garnered a better tally than the rest to emerge winners and qualify for the next stage.

Nii Tetteh Adjabeng II
The Chief of Adabraka, Nii Tetteh Adjabeng II, told Graphic Online that upon ascending the throne as a chief, he realised that most Gas could not speak the language fluently. He therefore consulted the Accra Metro Education unit to help him put up the initiative.

He stated that the quiz started with eight schools in the Korle-Klottey Municipality with a focus on Adabraka but now has about 20 schools.

According to him, he is working towards adding schools from other Ga communities.

Nii Adjabeng said bringing along stakeholders to support the initiative is a major challenge and called on the government, various stakeholders, firms and individuals to come to their aid.

Teachers                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Some Ga teachers from the various competing schools told Graphic Online that it brings them much joy seeing the students they teach do so well in the quiz, saying it motivates them to give of their best in teaching the students the language.

They called on parents to encourage their wards in speaking the language in order to help maintain the Ga-Dangme culture and tradition.

Students
Some of the competing students and their colleagues expressed joy at the opportunity and thanked the organisers.
They indicated that the competition has helped them to study the language, saying they learn new things after every competition and are also doing well in the language at school.