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Junior Graphic is 17 years

Junior Graphic is 17 years

Today marks exactly 17 years since the Junior Graphic appeared on the newsstands as a newspaper dedicated to giving a voice to the Ghanaian youth.

With its motto, ‘Serving the Youth of Ghana,’ the Junior Graphic, which started as a 16-page newspaper, with columns such as the Auntie Betty, Letters, Debate, Short Story and poems, Sports, Colour Me and Time for Serious Talk, has been offering the Ghanaian youth the platform to learn, as well as make their views on national issues known.

The Rack Your Brain column, which deals with past questions and answers on the BECE and SSCE/WASSCE, has over the years helped most readers in their preparation towards their examinations.

What has been unique with the paper is the fact that most of the columns are written by children, therefore, employing simple language which makes it easy for the audience to understand and also contribute articles for publication.

Over the years, the number of pages has changed from 16 to 24 and then back to 16 following the introduction of the 16-page pull-out, Graphic Youth World in the Daily Graphic on Saturdays meant for students in the second cycle schools and tertiary institutions.

The publication of the Junior Graphic has touched numerous lives during the 17 years of its existence as many basic school students have had regular reading material to read, thereby widening their vocabulary while others had learnt from the experiences of children they have read about in the paper to stay focused and aspire to greater heights.

Some students who shared their experiences with the paper on the occasion of its anniversary expressed their gratitude to the Graphic Communications Group Limited for the foresight in publishing the Junior Graphic and drawing up various programmes to assist children to understand the importance of their education and make them determined to achieve the best for themselves.

Natasha Nkansah, now a student of the University of Ghana, Legon, one of the avid readers of the Junior Graphic while in junior high school said reading the paper helped her to learn new words through the vocabularies published in the short story page.

“The Auntie Betty column taught me a lot and answered most of the adolescent reproductive health problems that were on our little minds,” she added.

Natasha said she was filled with great joy much later when her first article on the computerised schools selection placement system got published in the Junior Graphic.

Adwoa Ewuaba Mensah, now at the Aggrey Memorial SHS, Cape Coast, also described the Auntie Betty page as one of the most educative columns in the paper adding that, ‘Auntie Betty offers warm advice to young people who write to her on the various problems they are facing.”

She said she always bought the Junior Graphic because of the Auntie Betty column.

Of course, she was quick to add that the Rack Your Brain column in the paper had also been of great value to her, as well as her mates since most students took advantage to solve the questions that were published in that column during their preparation for the Basic Education Certificate Examination.

Josephine Ackom-Pyne, a student of the Methodist University College, Ghana, said in view of the worth of the academic pages to students, she hoped those pages would be increased for more subjects to be included so that students would have more questions to work out.

Josephine suggested that the study of Information Communications and Technology (ICT) should be included to help build the knowledge of the youth in technology.

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