Because the cooperation between China and Ghana forges forward, increasingly more Ghanaian universities are driving the wave of the Chinese language language reputation to advertise cultural range and alternate on campus.
On Tuesday, Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Know-how (KNUST), one of the crucial famend universities in Ghana, turned the newest host of a Confucius Institute within the West African nation.
Daniel Duah, dean of the Worldwide Applications Workplace at KNUST, informed Xinhua in an interview that KNUST has all the time thought-about China an vital companion and the timing was ripe to incorporate Chinese language language research within the curriculum.
“We determined to discover our partnership with the Hubei College of Automotive Know-how to have a Confucius Institute right here, not just for the language but in addition for the cultural alternate and worldwide tutorial alternate applications,” Duah acknowledged.
He mentioned that with the speedy modifications occurring on the earth, coupled with the teachings from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s a want for learners to know completely different cultures and languages world wide.
“The world is a altering place, and COVID-19 taught us that the world is a world village, and you cannot go far with out partnerships. It is a chance for our college students to have that range in tradition that we want on campus,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that the college has already included the Chinese language language as a course, however the presence of the Confucius Institute would assist KNUST introduce a level program in Chinese language.
He mentioned KNUST would work arduous in partnership with their Chinese language counterparts to make sure that the Confucius Institute turns into distinctive, yielding constructive dividends for Ghana and China.
Duah lauded the Chinese language Ambassador to Ghana Lu Kun for his main function in making certain that KNUST lastly obtained the nod to host the third Confucius Institute in Ghana.
“After the subsiding of COVID-19, the ambassador personally visited us and has been an enormous pillar for this to occur, and we imagine that that is going to deepen additional the bilateral relations between Ghana and China,” Duah concluded.
Lately, finding out the Chinese language language has been more and more standard in Ghana, the place two Confucius Institutes have been established on the College of Ghana and the College of Cape Coast, respectively, since 2013.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Discussion board on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
