Alpha Beta Educational Complex marks African Day
The Alpha Beta Educational Complex in Accra has held its African Day celebration with a call on educational institutions in the country to educate young children about the African continent.
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That, according to the African Day Co-ordinator of the school, Mr Bennet Bediako, would help them appreciate the problem facing the continent and get involved in addressing them.
According to him, children in other continents have been very instrumental in development programmes and it is believed that African children could achieve similar feat when they acquire knowledge of their continent right from their developmental stage.
African Day
The African Day celebration was introduced by the school three years ago to educate the schoolchildren on the histories, traditions and major trading activities of the various African countries. It was also to inculcate in the children the spirit of patriotism.
The day saw students, who had been grouped into different African countries, march with the flags of the various countries to showcase what a particular country was made of while narrating their histories.
Students were dressed in outfits of countries they were representing.
Weeks before the celebration, each class in the school was assigned a country of which they were to learn and represent during the celebration.
Significance of programme
Mr Bediako told the Daily Graphic that the programme had been very beneficial to the children since its inception.
“What these children do is that they choose a country and exhibit the things they have. So, for example, if you choose Ghana, we expect that you are able to tell who the President is, the political system practised by the country, its major trading activities, the food they eat, meaning of the colours of their flag, among other things”, he said.
