Our Culture Is Paramount; Let’s Embrace It – Cultural Ambassador Ghana

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National Commission on culture outdoors Mrs. Georgina Opoku, popularly known as Asor, as a new Cultural Ambassador.

She is the second person to be commissioned by the commission to help promote and project the culture and traditions of Ghana both home and abroad.

At the induction ceremony that took place at Kwahu Abetifi, The Executive Director of National Commission on Culture, Janet Edna Nyame, has attributed the upsurge of crime rate and other social vices especially among the youth today in the country to the neglect and disregard of culture by the citizenry, stating that, all the beautiful attitude that use to exist in time past cannot be seen anywhere this days due to the failure of parents to teach their children the Ghanaian values and culture from the infancy .

Speaking at the induction ceremony of a Cultural Ambassador for Ghana at Abetifi in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, the Executive Director of the National Commission on Culture was with the firm believe that, looking at the current state of crime and other social vices such as robbery, rapes , serial killings, disrespect for the elderly among our and tradition as people, have been neglected due to the failure of parents to teach their children the Ghanaian values and culture from the infancy.

She further added that, the youth of today have been swayed off for too long by unnecessary and unassuming fantasies from the West and East and the effects are detrimental.

Speaking to Michael Akrofi, She however called on the new Cultural Ambassador to work hard to help people realize the need to embrace the Ghanaian values and culture.

She added the reason of the Commission that led to the observation and the motivation to appoint a fashion designer from Kwahu Abetifi as their Ambassador.

The newly appointed Cultural Ambassador, Mrs. Georgina Opoku, popularly known as Asor and a great fashion designer expressed worries about the current trend of indecent dressing among the youth.

She pledged to work hard to promote the Ghanaian values and culture.

And the adaptation of Western Culture than that of our own traditions, customs and culture by today’s youth.

By: Michael Akrofi