History should be made compulsory at all levels of our education – Kojo Yankah

Founder of the Pan African Heritage Museum Kojo Yankah has suggested that history as a subject should be made compulsory at all levels of Ghana’s education.

The history subject should be authenticated by research, he said.

“My humble suggestion is that Ghana/Africa history, authenticated by research, should be made Compulsory at all levels of our education,” the Founder of the African University College of Communications (AUCC) wrote on his Facebook page.

His comments come in the wake of the debate over who founded Ghana.

“The formation of the Aborigines Rights Protection, the British West African Nation Congress, the United Gold Coast Convention, the work of countless unsung heroes, and the tenacious spirit of our people all played vital parts in bringing us to freedom and independence.

“Kwame Nkrumah with his charismatic visionary leadership was undoubtedly a major actor in the final lap of our journey to independence and that is why despite the several unfortunate things that happened after independence under his watch, Parliament in 2019, decided to memorialise his date of birth as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the only Ghanaian so far to be so honoured in our history,” he argued that groups including Joseph Casely Hayford and Thomas Hutton-Mills’ British West African Nation Congress and several others contributed to Ghana’s freedom and subsequent independence.