THE Government of Denmark has provided a grant of $40,000 through its Danish Centre for Cultural Development to support the development of culture in the Tamale Metropolis.
The funds would be used to implement a two-year project that would involve the teaching and learning of Northern cultural dance and drumming in five selected basic schools in Tamale.
This is aimed at grooming the children to appreciate their culture and master the skills of drumming and dancing which are two distinct aspects of Ghanaian culture.
The project, which was launched during the week, is the brainchild of the Youth Home Cultural Group (YHCG) in Tamale and would be implemented by the group in partnership with the Egedal School of Music in Denmark.
Under the project, two cultural instructors would be attached to each of the beneficiary schools to teach the children some traditional drumming and dances such as ‘tora’, ‘bamaya’ and ‘jera’.
The schools are the Tiyumba, Ridge, Presbyterian, Seventh-Day Adventist and Evangelical Presbyterian basic schools. A number of traditional musical instruments and costumes were presented to the schools to facilitate the implementation of the project.
The Director of YHCG, Mr Abdul-Rahaman Takoro, said the project focused on children because the preservation of Ghanaian culture depended largely on how well it had been imparted to the young ones.
He said several aspects of Ghanaian culture faced extinction, following the failure of the older generation to preserve them and transfer them to the young ones and added that the project would attempt to address this challenge.
Mr Takoro said the YHCG had been promoting cultural activities to revive the country’s dying culture and commended the Ghana Cultural Fund for supporting some of these activities.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for Tamale, Alhaji Abdulai Haruna Friday, commended the Danish government for its support in promoting Ghanaian culture.
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